01/22/2026
And health experts are warning that a similar project appears to be unfolding in Guinea-Bissau, where an HHS-funded study was set to withhold a hepatitis B vaccine from some infants in order to revisit the efficacy of a vaccine that has already proved to be safe and effective. The experiment has been derided by numerous health experts — such as Dr. Jeremy Faust, who wrote about the study on his Substack, and Dr. Paul Offit, a former adviser to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration who rebuked the study in a post with the headline “RFK Jr.’s Tuskegee Experiment.”
The Trump administration is trying to discredit Africa’s top health agency over an hepatitis B study with infants.
