As the doctors themselves pointed out, what possible reason would they have to lie? Catholic doctors have been working there for a century and have routinely been giving vaccines for decades. There is no conceivable reason why they would make this up.
And, this would not be the first time. In the 1990s the UN was found to have put hCG in tetanus vaccines in the Philippines, Mexico and Nicaragua.
They’ve done this before?
“As the doctors themselves pointed out, what possible reason would they have to lie?”
Not necessarily lying exactly, but ignorance, superstition, and conspiracy theories are rife in Africa (pretty widespread everywhere else, too, unfortunately), and I’m not certain that doesn’t extend to Catholic doctors.
The belief that the CIA created and distributed HIV/AIDS, and Ebola, are also widespread in Africa.
Is there any real proof that this hCG stuff has been used anywhere? A significant drop in fertility in groups that received the vaccines, for example?
Conspiracy theories are a slippery slope.