Guest guest Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 Premeditated genocide continues Last week, Prof Francis Mmiro, the lead investigator, said the baby [HIV] vaccine trial has been successful so far, adding that he hoped the [HIV] vaccine will be added to the many given to babies at birth and thereafter like polio, tetanus, hepatitis B and measles. Preliminary results are expected by mid 2007 in the two-and-and-half-year study. " - Esther Nakkazi, Nationmedia.com, The East African Barbara Loe Fisher Commentary: There are different HIV (AIDS) vaccines in various stages of clinical trials in the U.S. and other countries. In the past, evaluations of the toxicity of experimental HIV (AIDS) vaccines were conducted in adults at high risk for HIV infection, such as IV drug abusers and those with multiple sexual partners. However, children have now become the preferred testing ground for experimental HIV (AIDS) vaccines and will be the eventual target for routine vaccination. Newborn infants in Africa are now being enrolled in clinical trials. In the U.S., future HIV vaccine trials will involve pre-adolescents and babies. A worldwide mass vaccination infrastructure is being created by governments in partnership with multinational pharmaceutical companies, the World Health Organization and private donors such as Bill Gates and the Catholic Church. During the next decade, an international campaign to vaccinate every man, woman and child with HIV (AIDS) vaccine will begin and societal sanctions, including denial of an education and health care, may well be levied against citizens in America and other developed countries who refuse the HIV (AIDS) vaccine. What many people do not realize is that the financing of world vaccination campaigns are dependent upon forcing the citizens of wealthy nations to purchase and use vaccines in order to finance the supply of those same vaccines to underdeveloped countries at a reduced rate. For example, hepatitis B disease is prevalent in Asia and Africa but has never been in the U.S.; and HPV associated cervical cancer occurs at a high rate in underdeveloped countries without routine pap smear screening but cervical cancer is at an all time low in the U.S.. Still, American children are forced to get hepatitis B vaccine or be denied an education and the CDC has told told doctors that pre-adolescent American girls must get HPV vaccine. In 1996, HIV vaccine developer Stanley Plotkin, M.D., of Pasteur Merieux Pharmaceuticals (who is a co-patent holder on rubella and rotavirus vaccines) explained why mandatory vaccination in rich countries like the U.S. help deliver vaccines to Third World markets: " The keystone of the [global mass vaccination] system is that the research costs [of drug companies] are recouped in North America and Europe and the vaccines are sold in the developing world at much, much lower margins...the relatively high rate of childhood vaccination seen lately in most parts of the world is the result of that system, " explained Plotkin. One-size-fits-all forced vaccination policies target the genetically vulnerable for injury and death and violate the human right to informed consent to medical risk-taking. The casualties of mass vaccination policies are never acknowledged or counted in the cost benefit analyses drug companies and public health officials publish. This will be especially true when the CDC announces every child in America must be injected with just a little bit of the HIV (AIDS) virus. No forced vaccination. Not in America. Uganda launches HIV vaccine trials for babies AllAfrica.com The East African (Nairobi) Click here for the URL: <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=qggys8bab.0.larzs8bab.oblmlwbab.3561 & ts=S0216 & p\ =http%3A%2F%2Fallafrica.com%2Fstories%2F200612270406.html> http://tinyurl.com/yep7bq <http://tinyurl.com/yep7bq> December 26, 2006 By ESTHER NAKKAZI Special correspondent Uganda has screened and vaccinated at least a quarter of the 50 babies needed for vaccine trial focused on prevention of HIV transmission from mother to child during breastfeeding. The first baby in the vaccine trials was enrolled in October and by last week 14 of them had received either the vaccine or placebo saline solution (for control) while 16 have been screened to participate. The study is in its phase I, randomised double blind - where the researchers will not know which babies receive the vaccine or the placebo solution, while 40 babies will randomly receive the vaccine and 10 the placebo. In this first phase of the trial, the researchers are testing whether the vaccine, formally known as Alvac-HIV, is safe for use in children, following which they will study whether it can stop mother-to-child transmission of the Aids-causing virus during breastfeeding. Last week, Prof Francis Mmiro, the lead investigator, said the baby vaccine trial has been successful so far, adding that he hoped the vaccine will be added to the many given to babies at birth and thereafter like polio, tetanus, hepatitis B and measles. Preliminary results are expected by mid 2007 in the-two -and a half-year study. The Alvac-HIV vaccine is being given to children less than or equal to three days of age, who weigh at least 2kg, have normal blood levels and are born to HIV positive mothers. The babies enrolled are also not participating in other trials, have not received blood transfusions, do not have serious illnesses, and can be monitored for 24 months. Their families should, therefore, be living around Mulago referral hospital in Kampala. The study primarily aims at evaluating the safety and immunogenicity of the vaccine in infants born to HIV-infected women. If successful, the vaccine could prevent at least 25,000 infections in newborns in East Africa alone. The trial is being carried out by the Uganda in collaboration with US Aids researchers. Many children, especially in the developing world, are infected by their HIV positive mothers who cannot afford to buy milk based formulas and are forced to breastfeed them. In Uganda, at least 8,000 babies were infected last year. At least 22,000 infections are registered in children each year. So far, 535 women have been referred to Makerere University John Hopkins Collaboration at Mulago Hospital. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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