Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections. Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.
Fortunately, the global effort to date has resulted in 80 percent of children or more being reached worldwide and many deaths are averted each year because of that. Unfortunately, thousands of children still die every day from vaccine-preventable diseases in developing countries. Life-saving vaccines we take for granted haven't yet reached them. But the good news is that there is a solution, and we are helping to solve that problem. Over the past decade, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), founded and supported in part by the U.S., has immunized more than 250 million children, preventing the deaths of over 5 million.
In the next five years, we can help save over four million more children in developing countries from early death -- if they receive critical vaccines. That is why the U.S. and Norway co-hosted a high level meeting of the GAVI Alliance partners and stakeholders in New York yesterday.
We have three new, extremely effective vaccines to roll out in developing countries:
Realizing the importance of this effort, the U.S. is stepping up its effort to get these vaccines to 250 million children by 2015. We are the world's largest donor, and are committed, with Norway, to engaging other leaders to join the fight. We are investing in refrigeration, strengthening the supply systems and logistics, and training workers to deliver these vaccines.
The President's Budget for 2011 increases our regular contribution to GAVI. This is part of a larger commitment to global health made President Obama's Global Health Initiative. Since 2001, the U.S. has provided over $647 million to GAVI. And we don't just give money. Through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Centers for Disease Control, we give technical and logistical support to help governments and local partners distribute vaccines effectively and efficiently.
The U.S. cannot do this alone. Immunizing children is a shared responsibility of the world community. That's why GAVI is an exemplary and unique alliance, where countries, NGOs, private philanthropies, the World Health Organization, World Bank, vaccine manufacturers, and others work together on innovative solutions while holding each other accountable for efficient delivery of measurable impact. Indeed, a core principle of GAVI is that even recipient countries must partially fund the vaccines (based on the ability to pay) so they too have an investment in efficiently distributing vaccines to their children, and to ensure long term sustainability of the vaccine programs.
Unfortunately, just 16 countries contribute to GAVI, with the bulk of the funding coming from just 6 countries, including the US, Norway, and Britain, and a few philanthropies, such as the Gates Foundation and Fundación "la Caxia".
Vaccinating the 250 million children in developing countries by 2015 cannot rest on the shoulders of just 6 countries. GAVI is exactly the mechanism needed for the global community to come together in a coordinated way to not just set common goals, but to also follow through on them. Few international organizations have done so much good in such a short time.
There are at least 4.2 million children who are counting on all of us to do our part to get this right.
See the *Codex Alimentarius* page at http://dollarpages.org and the Fluoride links are in the drop-down menu. Fluoride makes the BBB [blood-brain-barrier] more permeable to poisons like Aluminum which of course is linked to Alzhiemer's.
Also at dollarpages, interview with neurotoxicologist Dr. Chris Shaw discussing H1N1 vaccine kills neurons
Moreover, Dr. Shaw pointed out that no testing was done. 6 ferrets that all died. Hmmm, I'll not be taking that shot anytime soon! Then of course there are the Gardasil [Silgard] stories on the website organized by the mothers who's daughters turned into vegetables, one story not on the home page, of truthaboutgardasil.org [linked from dollarpages] talks about her daughter's shit being the size of a GRAPEFRUIT {don't fall off your chairs!} Truth is stranger than fiction. I'm just sayin, but that is just the tip of the iceberg and the 25,000 times the EPA levels of mercury pointed out by a doctor interviewed on Fox News who said he would never give it to his children [see dollarpages scroll down under the starfish girl.
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/globalhealth/research/vaccines
They have a very impressive advisory board. http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/globalhealth/research/vaccines/vaccineadvisoryboard
WHY? Do you think there are so few cases of smallpox?
Answer: Worldwide VACCINATION programs.
You want proof? Look at the arms & thighs of people born before the early 1960's and you'll find the vaccination marks. Both adults and children were vaccinated in large numbers & it was a requirement for International travel.
SMALLPOX VACCINATION is what eradicated SMALLPOX.
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Vaccines are made by private companies that need to make a profit and vaccines are very expensive to develop, test and bring to market. But because most vaccines are bought by governments, vaccine makers can charge prices that more closely matches what the market will bear. That's a lot in 'rich' countries and very little in poor countries. The very little in poor countries can still be a lot.
The way this is done is by tiered pricing http://www.who.int/immunization_financing/options/en/briefcase_pricingtiers.pdf
See also http://patientsandpatents.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/tiered-pricing-enables-health-for-all/
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This short article from the World Health Organization should be read by everyone interested in vaccines and vaccination. Not just because it responds to nonsensical claims made in these comments, but because it explains a lot of concepts that most people reading and writing on vaccines and vaccination get wrong.
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/2/07-040089/en/
http://www.naturalnews.com/028936_WHO_vaccines.html
Also, that corruption for H1N1, for which the panic was admittedly overblown, but the media had a huge part in that, does not eliminate the fact that mass vaccinations have been widely successful for a variety of diseases. Influenza is a particular case, since there are several strains in circulation at the same time, all of which mutate relatively easily.
Smallpox has been eradicated. A whole lot of other diseases like polio, measles, diphteria, pertussis, tetanus, tuberculosis have been successfully kept at very low levels. Sure, clean water and sanitation played a huge part too.
And your naturalnews website might take some examples from the WHO article. Check the referencing. Not an abcnews report. Actual scientific papers.
The waste number of children is dying each day because of the lack of food and/or the absence of clean water. (Probably, many people who worry about vaccine thing that those children would die anyway because they are not vaccinated.)
It is difficult for me to understand that so many people care about vaccine and they don’t care about the minimum of living condition like food and clean water.
Sometimes, I think they don’t care for children but the only thing they care is to spread the “glory” of medical industry and the “glory” of established medical professionals.
Wrong. The GAVI site itself (http://www.gavialliance.org/about/donors/table/index.php) shows that as of July 2010, the US had contributed or committed slightly more than ONE TWENTIETH of total commitments. In absolute terms the UK, France and Italy were significantly more generous - despite their far smaller populations and economies. Together the UK, France and Italy have slightly more than half the US population, yet they committed 11 times more than the US.
Also, the number of contributing nations is not a good yardstick. Countries naturally contribute to efforts they are good at - especially when some of the money comes back. I've never heard the Dutch lament that they carry out an unfair share of the dredging in the world. Of course they do. Similarly the US, the UK and France are big players in the vaccine field. Of course they contribute more.
the rest is to difficult anyway and we can just forget about it.
Question: Is there any evidence that vaccines for children in poorer countries have some secret birth control or death inducing factor? Answer: No.
Question: If you vaccinate children, can you impact the population in the future? Answer: Most probably yes. If parents can be more certain that they will have children survive to adulthood, they may have fewer children and the overall population growth will be lower.
The other point to remember is that vaccination, worldwide is a pretty public endeavor. There are not that many companies that make vaccines and they get tested a lot. And it wouldn't be hard for someone to simply take a few vaccine doses and test them.
Vaccines are held to very high standards of purity and contaminants are carefully looked for. Canada, where I live, tests almost every lot of every vaccine used in Canada at a government lab. That's in addition to the tests done by the vaccine maker.
What about the huge problem with Urabe strain of the measles vaccine that was discovered (it was CAUSING menangitis), only to result in the vaccine being fire-sold and used on British children.
Ya, that vaccine industry. It's all about safety.
Also, you need a major reality check and a subscription to Fierce Biotech and Fierce Vaccines if you think only a few companies make vaccines.
I fail to see the connection between vaccination and eugenics. First, vaccines save lives and although adverse reactions do occur, they are rare, and almost never deadly. Second, much of the vaccination effort is targeted at the very populations that develop and distribute the vaccines. American scientists and policy makers focus a lot of their energy on vaccinating middle class white kids in the US. So, even if vaccines were as dangerous as you claim, vaccination programs on the whole would not resemble eugenics. Finally, the world population has continued to explode even as vaccines become more common. So EVEN IF vaccines are deadly AND there is a concerted effort to use inoculations for population control, it's not working.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/mar/04031101.html
basicly pro vaccination people are asking us to blindly follow and do as we are told because they are right. sounds more like reigion to me than science.
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The results would be more impressive if some of the disasters supposedly resulting from the diseases weren't actually caused by medical practices in the first place:
http://insidevaccines.com/wordpress/2010/09/07/polio-causes-and-effects-part-i/
(how injections provoke polio)
http://insidevaccines.com/wordpress/2010/10/10/polio-causes-and-effects-part-ii/
(get your tonsils out, get bulbar polio, end up in an iron lung or dead)
Well, if those lazy poor people can afford the co-pays and deductibles, that is. And if their kids do not have any pre-existing conditions, such as, er, being pre-existing as poor children without medical care.
Problem solved!