A joint delegation from Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) and Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has visited the Republic of Guinea ...

The West African country of Guinea-Bissau has banned the production of fishmeal and fish oil as concerns mount over the overfishing of small pelagics.

On November 26, soldiers of the Presidential Guard took power in yet another West African country. This time, it was Guinea-Bissau — the tiny country on the Atlantic coast better known to the world as ...

By Jessica Donati Feb 18 (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's foreign minister has said his government has stopped a study funded by the Trump administration aiming to evaluate side effects of the life-saving ...

Military officials in the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau have announced a new leader one day after seizing power in a military coup. General Horta Inta-A was named as the head of a ...

Giving some newborns in Guinea-Bissau an established hepatitis B treatment but not others is "unethical", it says.

The World Health Organization (WHO) underscores that the hepatitis B birth dose vaccine is an effective, and essential public ...

The World Health Organization on Friday voiced serious concerns over a planned US-funded hepatitis B vaccine trial on newborn babies in junta-run Guinea-Bissau, questioning it on scientific and ...

African scientists have criticised a study of hepatitis B virus birth dose vaccination as being unethical. Gilbert Nakweya reports.

A US-funded study in Guinea-Bissau on the effects of neonatal hepatitis B virus vaccination has been suspended pending further review due to ethical concerns. Talha Burki reports.

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau — A delegation from the West African regional bloc known as ECOWAS made no headway in talks Monday with coup leaders in Guinea-Bissau, but said at the end of its visit that ...