POLITICS OF VACCINES IN THE THIRD WORLD - DR OMESH BHARATI.

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THE POLITICS OF VACCINATION-II

 

The Policy Of Forcing Hepatitis-B And Hib Vaccines On India And Pressure To Eradicate Polio

DR OMESH BHARATI

 

[Respected

Sirs/Madam - I do not agree with all that is said in this article,

specially about the need for introducing the Rotavirus & HPV

vaccines into India (both are under a cloud for their side effects as

well as unethical lobbying), but I do agree that burdening the

children with more vaccines in the UIP is not a good idea. I am for

improvement in sanitation, hygiene, nutrition, vitamin & mineral

therapy (Vit A & C, Zinc) and promotion of breastfeeding (specially

colostrum) to curb diseases rather than waste time and money and also

risk our children with the unforeseen and life long side effects of

vaccines.

 

 

Doctors

in India have pointed out that polio eradication may be a chimera as

unless poverty is eradicated and clean and safe drinking water is

provided, the disease will continue to wreak havoc. On top of that the

GOI has helped spread the disease with both mOPV and tOPV (undergoing

clinical trials in India) which have spread cases of vaccine strain

induced polio. The number of vaccine attributed polio victims in India

is anywhere between 30,000 to 3,00,000 according to media reports. The

IMA has a figure of 85,000, upto 2005, in its website. Doctors have

been "advised" to keep quiet on these issues for "the greater good of

humanity".

 

It

is very sad that no effort is being made to track, treat and compensate

the unfortunate children. GAVI, UNICEF, Rotary and WHO do not reply to

our mails making it plainly evident that they are least bothered about

the health of Indian children. Shame upon them who wish to profit

by killing and maiming little babies. If the MoH wishes to maintain its

credibility it should chastise these institutions which, according to

reports appearing in the US media, are today rotten to the core and act

as agents for the drug and vaccine industry. All this in line with the

objective of achieving a "negative growth in population" that is being

openly advocated by both politicians and beaurocrats.

 

I

think we have to call for a boycott of the entire vaccination procedure

to make the political mandarins to sit up and take notice. It is

a dastardly and heinous act to continue with the vaccination process

without making provision for informed consent, introducing a physicians

warranty of vaccine safety, compensation in case of adverse effects and

without any long term studies on the effects of vaccines, specially

when the so called "misinformation" about vaccine dangers circulating

amongst dissenters, even within the medical community, is turning out

to be a fact rather than rumour. The issue of heavy metals in vaccines

is yet to be resolved.

 

It

is very disturbing that poisons are being introduced into infants who

are not supposed to be fed anything other than breastmilk during the

first six months of their lives. The spread of cancers, diabetes and

other immune disorders in children cannot be hidden any longer. Countries putting the maximum emphasis on vaccines have the highest rate of infant mortality. The health of teenagers today is alarming.

 

We

also do not understand how the voices of Indian doctors are not being

heard and instead "foreign experts" dictate terms in matters of

vaccination policy in India. Who are these "experts" and what influence

do they yield to dictate terms? What are these "experts" doing to

ensure compensation and treatment for the millions of vaccine damaged

children? What are they doing to educate the public about vaccine

dangers?

 

You cannot take the "First do no harm" medical oath and push vaccines at the same time. This is ludicrous. This is madness. This is utter stupidity. - Jagannath]------------------------

India is still struggling to immunize it’s children against six vaccine preventable diseases and in some states like Bihar and Rajsthan the routine immunization coverage is very low . As low as 8.5 % for measles in district Kishanganj of Bihar and 10.3% in Goda district of Jharkhand and 10.4 % In District East Garo Hills of Meghalya state. Despite the fact that the Measles is still

a major killer of children when epidemic struck sporadically throughout

the country. Amidst this scenario, the global alliance for vaccines and

immunization (GAVI) wants India to adopt the Hepatitis-B and later the Hib Vaccines in Universal immunization

schedule (UIP).

 

GAVI,

claims to be working for the benefit of the poor children of the poor

nations of the Third World Countries (TWC); and wants to include latest

vaccines at “cheaper rates” in the UIP of TWCs

.. This is despite the fact that overall immunization coverage is on the

decline in India , there is irregular vaccination or no vaccination in

most parts of the country. There is decline in production of vaccines upto 99.5

% in case of Tetanus Toxoid (TT) and upto 64% in case of DPT at

government run vaccine production center , Kasauli. And new vaccines that are needed in India have not been introduced like that for Cholera, MMR , Rotavirus and

HPV for cervical cancer and there is no transfer of technology to

produce vaccines for Japanese Encephalitis that killed more than a

thousand children few years back and

crippled thousands for life. Instead of producing more than required 20

million doses of Japanese encephalitis vaccine the Central Research

Institute (CRI, KASAULI) in Himachal is just producing 75,875 doses per

annum (2002-2003) and still this fact does not appear to be bothering

anybody including GAVI.

 

The GAVI is purely perusing the agenda of the developed nations with WHO becoming a silent spectator.

 

The industry in the developed world especially in the U.S. is clear about their commercial motives in the vaccine production. The

vaccine industry in the developed world want to recover the money it

has spent on the R & D for the vaccines and cost of the vaccine

production before it puts it’s money on newer vaccine research and

production like HIV vaccine development, despite the fact that the

present alliance International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) spending

crores of rupees (even money from India and other TWCs ) would

ultimately transfer the technology developed for HIV Vaccine to the

Western Industry free, on the promise of cheaper vaccine.

 

 

So

to help the western industry achieve the goal of recovery of it’s money

spent on vaccines Hepatitis-b and Hib , the third world countries are

being forced to include these vaccines in the Immunization schedules in

the name of cheap vaccines to the poor nations. Though everybody knows

that no developed country even China is interested in transfer of

technology to develop basic vaccines e.g. for Japanese encephalitis or

for Cholera and Rotavirus. Every new vaccine is developed in the name

of poor but the costs are so high that poor die thinking of their

grandchildren would be safe in the days to come. Sometimes vaccine is

there, but despite the deaths of millions, it would not be provided if

the capacity of the poor nation is not to afford it’s costs.

 

GAVI

Wants TWCs to introduce newer vaccines but it is not concerned to help

India and other TWCs to achieve 100 % immunization for the six vaccine

preventable diseases before it advocates introduction of costly

vaccines like Hepatitis-B and Hib, causing a drain on their routine

immunization. Despite the fact that the vaccines for these six vaccine

preventable diseases are cheap and affordable.

The research in vaccines is another area of concern. Nobody in the World including WHO is seriously

thinking of developing vaccines against Malaria or other Tropical

Diseases because mostly the developed nations are in Temperate zones .

So much so that a proposal to make heat resistant polio vaccine was

shot down because it could have benefited the Tropical countries more

than the countries in the West. Similarly a

proposal to develop Sugar Glass coating for vaccines that would make

the vaccines heat stable was not thought to be of any use and was not

responded to by the decision makers in the West. WHO could have helped

transfer both of these technologies to the TWCs but the opportunity was

lost and these useful technologies were lost without putting them into

use by the nations who needed these technologies for better vaccine

stability.

 

Everybody

knows that it is after much persuasion and assumption of bulk supply

orders that the technology to produce polio vaccine was transferred to

India in such a way that still we

need to import POLIO vaccine from outside countries costing 175 MILLION

DOLARS out of which 40 MILLION DOLARS is the LOAN India IS TAKING FROM

THE world bank with a RIDER that vaccine would be purchased from the UNICEF though now India has it’s own vaccine manufacturing capacity.

 

More than 500 CRORES are being spent on PULSE POLIO Vaccine out of total annual expenditure of 1004

CRORE RUPEES on polio eradication while routine immunization for the

six vaccine preventable diseases is just getting Rs. 327 CRORES ! And T.B. control Rs. 184 crores only.Despite this nobody is being allowed to see the database of AFP cases for research and any further studies including to see the number of VAP cases !

 

With eradication of polio the U.S. would save 230 million DOLLARS EVERY YEAR and the EUROPE 333 MILLION DOLLARS .

 

The U.S. recovered the money it donated for small pox eradication within a month of stopping smallpox vaccination in U.S. and the same holds good if polio is eradicated,

still now all help for the polio eradication initiative is being

withdrawn and India is being asked to bear the burnt of FINAL

ERADICATION of it’s own and spend funds that India is doing out of

Routine Immunization.

 

Pressure to eradicate the polio is so high that we are being told not to ask about the vaccine induced polio (VAP) cases . Though the sudden and steep rise in number of AFP Cases from 3047 in 1997 to 30,522 cases in 2006 is being attributed to the increased surveillance , the fact is that the vaccine induced polio cases are also a part of it, is not being made public. ALSO THE DECLINE IN IMMUNIZATION IS DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE POLIO VACCINE IS BEEING CONSTRUED BY THE MOTHERS AS COMPLETE VACCINATION.

 

Also

the fact that the field trials for monovalent polio vaccine (MPV) have

not been done in India before the introduction of MPV, the vaccine is being widely used. The pressure is so much so that a veiled threat had been issued to impose travel restrictions on Indians

traveling to Polio free countries, if the polio is not IMMIDIATLY eradicated.

 

Despite

all this the questions are being raised by many of the desire of the

U.S. to keep the POLIO LOCKED in U.S. labs for future use in case of

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE.

 

VACCINE DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA

It is becoming difficult to produce a

Cholera vaccine by India because the parameters are being those for the

western countries and we need the certification of the west for the

quality of our production ? The vaccines produced by the western

countries are costly and does not include the Cholera stain that is

common in India. So India is striving to have a Cholera vaccine that is

100% effective and is not putting to use a Cholera vaccine that is 70 %

effective despite the fact that this 70 % effective vaccine only can

save more then half a million deaths in India and other developing

countries. This need to be understood clearly in the light of the fact

that at present India don’t have any vaccine to protect

against Cholera and at the same time no vaccine produced elsewhere is

licensed in India. So keeping in view the number of lives

saved, India should put to use the heat killed Cholera vaccine even if

it is 70 % effective and sidewise can keep on developing better options

and adding new strains to this vaccine. Vietnam has already done this

by producing cheap heat resistant cholera vaccine. Otherwise it may take 30 more years

for India to develop the vaccine up to 100 % western acceptance ,killing millions till that time !

 

While India is struggling to develop vaccines against Malaria, Rotavirus, Human papilloma virus, Japanese encephalitis and cheaper

Rabies vaccine; no serious help is coming from GAVI, WHO and other

partners though India have been forced to be an alliance partner in

developing HIV vaccine in International AIDS VACCINE Initiative (IAVI)

and spending Millions on HIV Vaccine despite the fact that our public

health priorities are Malaria, T.B., Rotavirus, J.E. and cervical cancer.

 

For this India needs to pick-up the vaccine development projects that have been abandoned by

the west due to their cost- benefit ratio or for the fact that they are

more useful to the Third world countries than the west. These abandoned

projects can be transferred after paying the minimum fee and developed

in India like SUGARGLASS technology for the heat resistant vaccines and

development of VCCINE VIAL MONITORS (VVM) TECHOLOGY FOR DIFERENT HEAT

LABILE VACCINES. Because, in the west, the vaccine production is a side

business to production of other drugs and also the

pressure of the shareholders is there for more and more profit . Indian

public sector can take up the production of these vaccines at priority

in the interest of the poor patients and be more competitive in

understanding the concept of taking vaccines from the LAB to PRODUCTION.

The vaccine producing institutes like CRI, Kasauli and NIV,Pune need to

be made accountable autonomous bodies with clear mandate and sufficient

R & D infrastructure . Also INDIA AND CHINA and other developing

countries need to develop more co-operation in developing vaccines than

India depending on western countries as the interests of both are different.

 

Regarding

compulsory licensing of the drugs and vaccines we should develop

capacities so that if the provisions of compulsory licensing (CL) are

invoked in emergencies, we are in a position to develop the drug or

vaccine in a shortest period possible. For example during the Bird-flue

pandemic we should have assertively invoked the provisions of CL and

forced the Roche to immediately part with the technology for the drug

Tamiflue, but the fact that the company kept on dragging it’s feet at

the cost of an impeding epidemic need to be curved in future. Also the

Animal Disease Lab in Bhopal that have made the bird-flue vaccine for

the birds, need to be developed further for human trials and

development. We should learn lessons from Thailand where compulsory

licensing has recently been introduced for latest anti HIV drugs

evoking strong protest by the companies involved in their production

originally.

 

The last thing the government needs is to contain the MISINFORMATION OR NON-INFORMATION campaign by these vaccine manufacturers in India and TWCs. For example take the case of Anti-Rabies Vaccine (ARV) , the INTRA-DERMAL option is still not being made available THOUGH IT WOULD COST ONE FIFTH OF THE INTRA-MUSCULAR OPTION, and despite

the fact that the same is being used in a nearby country Thailand for

many years of now. And nobody including WHO or GAVI is bothered to

force this intra-dermal option of cheap vaccine onto the multinational

companies. When pressure from the NGOs mounted then the vaccine

producers said that for INTRA-DERMAL OPTION it needed to be field

tested before putting it into use. Can these producers tell that did

they tried and field tested the ARV in India before it’s marketing here ? Did

they do the field trials for Hib Vaccine before it was marketed and put

to use in India or for that matter for MONOVALENT POLIO VACINE BEFORE

it was imposed on Indian KIDS ?

 

ALL ARE DELAYING TACTICS. Even when it was proved that the ARV

vaccine is rather more effective intra-dermally than intramuscularly,

these companies are questioning the competencies of our health workers

to administer ARV intra-dermally ,though they are doing it in case of

BCG since for many years now. As regards to Hepatitis-b, a

misinformation campaign is on that it is more dangerous than HIV. The

campaign is going on despite the fact that the chances of a villager to

get hepatitis-b are for more less than getting tuberculosis or malaria in India.

 

Regarding

the COST-EFFECTIVE ANALYSIS OF HEPATITIS-B in India for UIP BY AGGARWAL

et all (2003); THEIR ASSUMPTION THAT the cost of a single dose of

hepatitis-b vaccine being approximately Rs. 20/-(1.5 $ for three doses)

and DPT coverage in India assumed to be as 75 % ,to calculate the cost

,is a gross underestimation of the facts and reality both in terms of actual price and the actual coverage for DPT. According to NFHS-III (2006) The DPT-III COVERAGE IN INDIA IS ONLY 55.3%.

 

The General of ICMR , DR. N.K.GANGULI puts this in the right

perspective saying that “AT THE MOMENT TWO DOSES OF HAV vaccine cost

enormously high because the vaccine in India comes from an

international source and GlaxoSmith-Kline (GSK) WHICH MADE PROFIT IN HEPATITIS-B VACCINE ADDED

HEPATITIS-A TO HEPATITIS-B ;The cost of this is very high at this

moment, although the recombinant Hepatitis-b which we make by the

bucketful has crashed to Rs. 20/- or so.”

 

So, we need to understand this business of charity in Vaccines

and need to develop our own strategy to combat diseases in India than

IMPORT THE DISEASES FIRST AND THEN THE VACCINES FROM WESTERN COUNTRIES

AS IS THE CASE WITH HIV !

 

THANKS!

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BY DR. OMESH BHARTI FOR HIMACHAL CONSUMER PROTECTION FOURUM, AND JAN SWASTHYA ABHIYAN.

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It is far from surprising that the HBV vaccine is so closely in

newsworthy synchrony with polio vaccination. In Edward Hooper's

book, The River, it was Freidrich Deinhardt who was in charge of

hepatitis research at Lindi. As the reader will most certainly see

by visiting various message boards and blogs, current discourse

about the OPV theory outlined in The River is for the most part,

passe, likely because Hooper's theory had been refuted in recent

years by HIV expert scientists.

 

Since this thread is one of the most recent threads on the world-

wide web about vaccines and their politics, it is also one place to

reintroduce Hooper's theory. It is urged that the reader acquaint

themselves with the OPV theory and its refutations, available on the

internet and elsewhere. The debate is not yet over.

 

, Jagannath Chatterjee

<jagchat01 wrote:

>

>

> THE POLITICS OF VACCINATION-II

>

>

> The Policy Of Forcing Hepatitis-B And Hib Vaccines On India And

Pressure To Eradicate Polio

>

> DR OMESH BHARATI

>

>

>

> [Respected

> Sirs/Madam - I do not agree with all that is said in this article,

> specially about the need for introducing the Rotavirus & HPV

> vaccines into India (both are under a cloud for their side effects

as

> well as unethical lobbying), but I do agree that burdening the

> children with more vaccines in the UIP is not a good idea. I am

for

> improvement in sanitation, hygiene, nutrition, vitamin & mineral

> therapy (Vit A & C, Zinc) and promotion of breastfeeding (specially

> colostrum) to curb diseases rather than waste time and money and

also

> risk our children with the unforeseen and life long side effects of

> vaccines.

>

>

>

>

>

> Doctors

> in India have pointed out that polio eradication may be a chimera

as

> unless poverty is eradicated and clean and safe drinking water is

> provided, the disease will continue to wreak havoc. On top of that

the

> GOI has helped spread the disease with both mOPV and tOPV

(undergoing

> clinical trials in India) which have spread cases of vaccine strain

> induced polio. The number of vaccine attributed polio victims in

India

> is anywhere between 30,000 to 3,00,000 according to media reports.

The

> IMA has a figure of 85,000, upto 2005, in its website. Doctors have

> been " advised " to keep quiet on these issues for " the greater good

of

> humanity " .

>

>

>

> It

> is very sad that no effort is being made to track, treat and

compensate

> the unfortunate children. GAVI, UNICEF, Rotary and WHO do not

reply to

> our mails making it plainly evident that they are least bothered

about

> the health of Indian children. Shame upon them who wish to profit

> by killing and maiming little babies. If the MoH wishes to

maintain its

> credibility it should chastise these institutions which, according

to

> reports appearing in the US media, are today rotten to the core

and act

> as agents for the drug and vaccine industry. All this in line with

the

> objective of achieving a " negative growth in population " that is

being

> openly advocated by both politicians and beaurocrats.

>

>

>

> I

> think we have to call for a boycott of the entire vaccination

procedure

> to make the political mandarins to sit up and take notice. It is

> a dastardly and heinous act to continue with the vaccination

process

> without making provision for informed consent, introducing a

physicians

> warranty of vaccine safety, compensation in case of adverse

effects and

> without any long term studies on the effects of vaccines, specially

> when the so called " misinformation " about vaccine dangers

circulating

> amongst dissenters, even within the medical community, is turning

out

> to be a fact rather than rumour. The issue of heavy metals in

vaccines

> is yet to be resolved.

>

>

>

> It

> is very disturbing that poisons are being introduced into infants

who

> are not supposed to be fed anything other than breastmilk during

the

> first six months of their lives. The spread of cancers, diabetes

and

> other immune disorders in children cannot be hidden any longer.

Countries putting the maximum emphasis on vaccines have the highest

rate of infant mortality. The health of teenagers today is alarming.

>

>

>

> We

> also do not understand how the voices of Indian doctors are not

being

> heard and instead " foreign experts " dictate terms in matters of

> vaccination policy in India. Who are these " experts " and what

influence

> do they yield to dictate terms? What are these " experts " doing to

> ensure compensation and treatment for the millions of vaccine

damaged

> children? What are they doing to educate the public about vaccine

> dangers?

>

>

>

> You cannot take the " First do no harm " medical oath and push

vaccines at the same time. This is ludicrous. This is madness. This

is utter stupidity. - Jagannath]

>

> ------------------------

>

> India is still struggling to immunize it's children against six

vaccine preventable diseases and in some states like Bihar and

Rajsthan the routine immunization coverage is very low . As low as

8.5 % for measles in district Kishanganj of Bihar and 10.3% in

Goda district of Jharkhand and 10.4 % In District East Garo Hills

of Meghalya state. Despite the fact that the Measles is still

> a major killer of children when epidemic struck sporadically

throughout

> the country. Amidst this scenario, the global alliance for

vaccines and

> immunization (GAVI) wants India to adopt the Hepatitis-B and

later the Hib Vaccines in Universal immunization

> schedule (UIP).

>

>

>

> GAVI,

> claims to be working for the benefit of the poor children of the

poor

> nations of the Third World Countries (TWC); and wants to include

latest

> vaccines at " cheaper rates " in the UIP of TWCs

> . This is despite the fact that overall immunization coverage is

on the

> decline in India , there is irregular vaccination or no

vaccination in

> most parts of the country. There is decline in production of

vaccines upto 99.5

> % in case of Tetanus Toxoid (TT) and upto 64% in case of DPT at

> government run vaccine production center , Kasauli. And new

vaccines that are needed in India have not been introduced like

that for Cholera, MMR , Rotavirus and

> HPV for cervical cancer and there is no transfer of technology to

> produce vaccines for Japanese Encephalitis that killed more than a

> thousand children few years back and

> crippled thousands for life. Instead of producing more than

required 20

> million doses of Japanese encephalitis vaccine the Central Research

> Institute (CRI, KASAULI) in Himachal is just producing 75,875

doses per

> annum (2002-2003) and still this fact does not appear to be

bothering

> anybody including GAVI.

>

>

>

> The GAVI is purely perusing the agenda of the developed nations

with WHO becoming a silent spectator.

>

>

>

> The industry in the developed world especially in the U.S. is

clear about their commercial motives in the vaccine production. The

> vaccine industry in the developed world want to recover the money

it

> has spent on the R & D for the vaccines and cost of the vaccine

> production before it puts it's money on newer vaccine research and

> production like HIV vaccine development, despite the fact that the

> present alliance International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)

spending

> crores of rupees (even money from India and other TWCs ) would

> ultimately transfer the technology developed for HIV Vaccine to the

> Western Industry free, on the promise of cheaper vaccine.

>

>

>

>

>

> So

> to help the western industry achieve the goal of recovery of it's

money

> spent on vaccines Hepatitis-b and Hib , the third world countries

are

> being forced to include these vaccines in the Immunization

schedules in

> the name of cheap vaccines to the poor nations. Though everybody

knows

> that no developed country even China is interested in transfer of

> technology to develop basic vaccines e.g. for Japanese

encephalitis or

> for Cholera and Rotavirus. Every new vaccine is developed in the

name

> of poor but the costs are so high that poor die thinking of their

> grandchildren would be safe in the days to come. Sometimes vaccine

is

> there, but despite the deaths of millions, it would not be

provided if

> the capacity of the poor nation is not to afford it's costs.

>

>

>

> GAVI

> Wants TWCs to introduce newer vaccines but it is not concerned to

help

> India and other TWCs to achieve 100 % immunization for the six

vaccine

> preventable diseases before it advocates introduction of costly

> vaccines like Hepatitis-B and Hib, causing a drain on their routine

> immunization. Despite the fact that the vaccines for these six

vaccine

> preventable diseases are cheap and affordable.

>

> The research in vaccines is another area of concern. Nobody in the

World including WHO is seriously

> thinking of developing vaccines against Malaria or other Tropical

> Diseases because mostly the developed nations are in Temperate

zones .

> So much so that a proposal to make heat resistant polio vaccine was

> shot down because it could have benefited the Tropical countries

more

> than the countries in the West. Similarly a

> proposal to develop Sugar Glass coating for vaccines that would

make

> the vaccines heat stable was not thought to be of any use and was

not

> responded to by the decision makers in the West. WHO could have

helped

> transfer both of these technologies to the TWCs but the

opportunity was

> lost and these useful technologies were lost without putting them

into

> use by the nations who needed these technologies for better vaccine

> stability.

>

>

>

> Everybody

> knows that it is after much persuasion and assumption of bulk

supply

> orders that the technology to produce polio vaccine was

transferred to

> India in such a way that still we

> need to import POLIO vaccine from outside countries costing 175

MILLION

> DOLARS out of which 40 MILLION DOLARS is the LOAN India IS TAKING

FROM

> THE world bank with a RIDER that vaccine would be purchased from

the UNICEF though now India has it's own vaccine manufacturing

capacity.

>

>

>

> More than 500 CRORES are being spent on PULSE POLIO Vaccine out

of total annual expenditure of 1004

> CRORE RUPEES on polio eradication while routine immunization for

the

> six vaccine preventable diseases is just getting Rs. 327 CRORES !

And T.B. control Rs. 184 crores only.Despite this nobody is being

allowed to see the database of AFP cases for research and any

further studies including to see the number of VAP cases !

>

>

>

> With eradication of polio the U.S. would save 230 million DOLLARS

EVERY YEAR and the EUROPE 333 MILLION DOLLARS .

>

>

>

> The U.S. recovered the money it donated for small pox eradication

within a month of stopping smallpox vaccination in U.S. and the

same holds good if polio is eradicated,

> still now all help for the polio eradication initiative is being

> withdrawn and India is being asked to bear the burnt of FINAL

> ERADICATION of it's own and spend funds that India is doing out of

> Routine Immunization.

>

>

>

> Pressure to eradicate the polio is so high that we are being

told not to ask about the vaccine induced polio (VAP) cases . Though

the sudden and steep rise in number of AFP Cases from 3047 in 1997

to 30,522 cases in 2006 is being attributed to the increased

surveillance , the fact is that the vaccine induced polio cases are

also a part of it, is not being made public. ALSO THE DECLINE IN

IMMUNIZATION IS DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE POLIO VACCINE IS BEEING

CONSTRUED BY THE MOTHERS AS COMPLETE VACCINATION.

>

>

>

> Also

> the fact that the field trials for monovalent polio vaccine (MPV)

have

> not been done in India before the introduction of MPV, the

vaccine is being widely used. The pressure is so much so that a

veiled threat had been issued to impose travel restrictions on

Indians

>

> traveling to Polio free countries, if the polio is not

IMMIDIATLY eradicated.

>

>

>

> Despite

> all this the questions are being raised by many of the desire of

the

> U.S. to keep the POLIO LOCKED in U.S. labs for future use in case

of

> BIOLOGICAL WARFARE.

>

>

>

> VACCINE DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA

> It is becoming difficult to produce a

> Cholera vaccine by India because the parameters are being those

for the

> western countries and we need the certification of the west for the

> quality of our production ? The vaccines produced by the western

> countries are costly and does not include the Cholera stain that is

> common in India. So India is striving to have a Cholera vaccine

that is

> 100% effective and is not putting to use a Cholera vaccine that is

70 %

> effective despite the fact that this 70 % effective vaccine only

can

> save more then half a million deaths in India and other developing

> countries. This need to be understood clearly in the light of the

fact

> that at present India don't have any vaccine to protect

> against Cholera and at the same time no vaccine produced elsewhere

is

> licensed in India. So keeping in view the number of lives

> saved, India should put to use the heat killed Cholera vaccine

even if

> it is 70 % effective and sidewise can keep on developing better

options

> and adding new strains to this vaccine. Vietnam has already done

this

> by producing cheap heat resistant cholera vaccine. Otherwise it

may take 30 more years

>

> for India to develop the vaccine up to 100 % western

acceptance ,killing millions till that time !

>

>

>

> While India is struggling to develop vaccines against Malaria,

Rotavirus, Human papilloma virus, Japanese encephalitis and cheaper

> Rabies vaccine; no serious help is coming from GAVI, WHO and other

> partners though India have been forced to be an alliance partner in

> developing HIV vaccine in International AIDS VACCINE Initiative

(IAVI)

> and spending Millions on HIV Vaccine despite the fact that our

public

> health priorities are Malaria, T.B., Rotavirus, J.E. and cervical

cancer.

>

>

>

> For this India needs to pick-up the vaccine development projects

that have been abandoned by

> the west due to their cost- benefit ratio or for the fact that

they are

> more useful to the Third world countries than the west. These

abandoned

> projects can be transferred after paying the minimum fee and

developed

> in India like SUGARGLASS technology for the heat resistant

vaccines and

> development of VCCINE VIAL MONITORS (VVM) TECHOLOGY FOR DIFERENT

HEAT

> LABILE VACCINES. Because, in the west, the vaccine production is a

side

> business to production of other drugs and also the

> pressure of the shareholders is there for more and more profit .

Indian

> public sector can take up the production of these vaccines at

priority

> in the interest of the poor patients and be more competitive in

> understanding the concept of taking vaccines from the LAB to

PRODUCTION.

> The vaccine producing institutes like CRI, Kasauli and NIV,Pune

need to

> be made accountable autonomous bodies with clear mandate and

sufficient

> R & D infrastructure . Also INDIA AND CHINA and other developing

> countries need to develop more co-operation in developing vaccines

than

> India depending on western countries as the interests of both

are different.

>

>

>

> Regarding

> compulsory licensing of the drugs and vaccines we should develop

> capacities so that if the provisions of compulsory licensing (CL)

are

> invoked in emergencies, we are in a position to develop the drug or

> vaccine in a shortest period possible. For example during the Bird-

flue

> pandemic we should have assertively invoked the provisions of CL

and

> forced the Roche to immediately part with the technology for the

drug

> Tamiflue, but the fact that the company kept on dragging it's feet

at

> the cost of an impeding epidemic need to be curved in future. Also

the

> Animal Disease Lab in Bhopal that have made the bird-flue vaccine

for

> the birds, need to be developed further for human trials and

> development. We should learn lessons from Thailand where compulsory

> licensing has recently been introduced for latest anti HIV drugs

> evoking strong protest by the companies involved in their

production

> originally.

>

>

>

> The last thing the government needs is to contain the

MISINFORMATION OR NON-INFORMATION campaign by these vaccine

manufacturers in India and TWCs. For example take the case of Anti-

Rabies Vaccine (ARV) , the INTRA-DERMAL option is still not being

made available THOUGH IT WOULD COST ONE FIFTH OF THE INTRA-MUSCULAR

OPTION, and despite

> the fact that the same is being used in a nearby country Thailand

for

> many years of now. And nobody including WHO or GAVI is bothered to

> force this intra-dermal option of cheap vaccine onto the

multinational

> companies. When pressure from the NGOs mounted then the vaccine

> producers said that for INTRA-DERMAL OPTION it needed to be field

> tested before putting it into use. Can these producers tell that

did

> they tried and field tested the ARV in India before it's

marketing here ? Did

> they do the field trials for Hib Vaccine before it was marketed

and put

> to use in India or for that matter for MONOVALENT POLIO VACINE

BEFORE

> it was imposed on Indian KIDS ?

>

>

>

> ALL ARE DELAYING TACTICS. Even when it was proved that the ARV

> vaccine is rather more effective intra-dermally than

intramuscularly,

> these companies are questioning the competencies of our health

workers

> to administer ARV intra-dermally ,though they are doing it in case

of

> BCG since for many years now. As regards to Hepatitis-b, a

> misinformation campaign is on that it is more dangerous than HIV.

The

> campaign is going on despite the fact that the chances of a

villager to

> get hepatitis-b are for more less than getting tuberculosis or

malaria in India.

>

>

>

> Regarding

> the COST-EFFECTIVE ANALYSIS OF HEPATITIS-B in India for UIP BY

AGGARWAL

> et all (2003); THEIR ASSUMPTION THAT the cost of a single dose of

> hepatitis-b vaccine being approximately Rs. 20/-(1.5 $ for three

doses)

> and DPT coverage in India assumed to be as 75 % ,to calculate the

cost

> ,is a gross underestimation of the facts and reality both in terms

of actual price and the actual coverage for DPT. According to NFHS-

III (2006) The DPT-III COVERAGE IN INDIA IS ONLY 55.3%.

>

>

>

> The

> Director General of ICMR , DR. N.K.GANGULI puts this in the right

> perspective saying that " AT THE MOMENT TWO DOSES OF HAV vaccine

cost

> enormously high because the vaccine in India comes from an

> international source and GlaxoSmith-Kline (GSK) WHICH MADE

PROFIT IN HEPATITIS-B VACCINE ADDED

> HEPATITIS-A TO HEPATITIS-B ;The cost of this is very high at this

> moment, although the recombinant Hepatitis-b which we make by the

> bucketful has crashed to Rs. 20/- or so. "

>

>

>

> So, we need to understand this business of charity in Vaccines

> and need to develop our own strategy to combat diseases in India

than

> IMPORT THE DISEASES FIRST AND THEN THE VACCINES FROM WESTERN

COUNTRIES

> AS IS THE CASE WITH HIV !

>

>

>

> THANKS!

>

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>

>

>

> BY DR. OMESH BHARTI FOR HIMACHAL CONSUMER PROTECTION FOURUM,

AND JAN SWASTHYA ABHIYAN.

>

>

>

>

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monopoly ownership of the earth's resources – less

population means more for them! War, famine, suppressed

cures for catastrophic diseases, abortion acceptance, and health-

destroying, cancer-producing Monsanto monopolized

genetically modified foods all reduce world population

and produce big profits. - Deanna Spingola, Political Researcher.

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