WHO slams US-funded newborn vaccine trial as "unethical"
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世界卫生组织近日发表正式声明，谴责一项由美国资助的新生儿疫苗试验“不符合伦理”。该试验计划在非洲几内亚比绍的部分新生儿中，不提供已获认可、安全且可能挽救生命的乙型肝炎疫苗。世卫组织指出，基于现有公开信息，该试验不符合既定的伦理与科学原则，并列举了其存在危害及质量低下的具体原因。该试验自去年12月获美国资助信息公布以来，已受到公共卫生专家的广泛批评。
The World Health Organization on Friday released a formal statement blasting a US-funded vaccine trial as "unethical," because it would withhold an established, safe, and potentially lifesaving vaccine against hepatitis B from some newborns in Guinea-Bissau, Africa.
"In its current form, and based on publicly available information, the trial is inconsistent with established ethical and scientific principles," the WHO concluded, after providing a bullet-point list of reasons the trial was harmful and low quality.
The trial has drawn widespread condemnation from health experts since notice of the US funding was published in the Federal Register in December. The notice revealed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—had awarded $1.6 million to Danish researchers for their non-competitive, unsolicited proposal to conduct the trial.
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