What do you get when you put a vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the agency responsible for funding medical research throughout the globe? Instead, the Africa CDC told the Guardian the study would be reworked to address the ethics concerns that have become a rallying cry in the medical research community. “The study has been cancelled,” Africa CDC official Yap Boum said on Thursday, the newspaper reported. “This administration did not see people in Africa as valuable… We were able to stand up for them. We were able to convince people about the fact that this was unethical.”Updated to reflect that the HHS is denying the study is canceled.