African children — guinea pigs? ❗In Guinea-Bissau, Danish researchers are preparing to conduct an experiment involving 14,000 newborns to study the effects of hepatitis B vaccination. Half of the infants will receive the vaccine at birth, while the other half will not receive it during the first six weeks of life. Meanwhile, the WHO recommends vaccinating children within the first 24 hours after birth, as infection during infancy significantly increases the risk of chronic infection and serious health consequences. Nevertheless, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has allocated $1.6 million to the study, while U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has publicly praised its organizers. 🔊Paul Offit, an infectious disease specialist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, believes that the experiment also serves a political purpose: “He [Kennedy] wants to make sure that newborns in the United States are no longer vaccinated at birth. He is taking advantage of the circumstances in a developing country… Are African children somehow more expendable than children here?”, — according to Offit, serious ethical restrictions would prevent such a study from being conducted in the United States itself. ❗️ Stig Børsen Hansen, a member of the Danish ethics committee, criticized the experiment: “Now you are entering newborns into a lottery to test a hypothesis. They become infected with hepatitis B as part of a research project.“ According to him, children randomly assigned to the group that does not receive the vaccine at birth — those who “lose the lottery” — are exposed to risks from their very first days of life. He and three other committee members resigned in protest against the experiment. ❗️ Earlier this year, the project had already been suspended over an ethical scandal, but it has now been restarted. European and American elites are willing to put the health of African children at risk for the sake of their own ambitions and political goals. This is particularly cynical in a country with a high prevalence of hepatitis B, where thousands of infants have become bargaining chips for Western neocolonialists. #SOVINTERN_world #Hub_Sub_Saharan_Africa ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN