IMA : Human Rights Violation in OPV Campaign.

5. Issues pertaining to human rights (OPV vaccine discussion in IMA
meeting) :

http://www.imanational.com/Hepatitis/BackGroundInfo.htm
http://www.imanational.com/Hepatitis/ImaDiscussion.htm

· This program has expected and continues to expect that billions of
people all over the world, year after year for decades, should be only
passive recipient of the polio drops.

· In fact, where there was resistance, coercion, often in the form of
direct force was exercised, to give polio drops even to unwilling
families. ( ref: field visit by one of the authors)

· Critical information about polio vaccine was never shared with the
people: that these two drops may not protect a child from polio.

· Dangers of injections during the transmission seasons fever or
during the phase of vaccination was never presented. It should have
been mandatory that during the pulse rounds, all unnecessary injections
should be avoided as it may cause paralysis.

· The possibility of VAPP was never brought into public domain. Even
the scientific community has not been taken into confidence.
(How come? It is common knowledge - Jagannath)

· There is a 2-10% case fatality rate with poliomyelitis. Deaths due
to poliomyelitis have been reported in children who have been
administered large number of OPV doses ( ref. Paul: 2004; letter to the
editor; Vaccine 23: 280). This has been reported from one state
-Rajasthan. Yet they do not figure in the data presented by NPSP.

Introduction of mOPV1 in the pulse polio rounds as a "State IV
clinical Trial without parental consent, is the most blatant misuse of
human rights. This has also been done without any special monitoring
for side effects (like VAPP) in those exposed to multiple doses of an
"Exprimental Vaccine"

The paralytic illnesses of the child hood and needs for prevention and
rehabilitation

In this battle, the real issue of the viral (polio and other non-polio
enteric viruses) and non-viral causes of the childhood paralyses and
disability do not appear to matter. The program managers are un
concerned about the fate of nearly 85,000 cases of non-polio-virus
-Acute Flaccid paralyses detected since the year 1998. No effort has
been made to find out whether these children have been left with any
residual paralyses or other morbidities and what are their care and
rehabilitation needs, as they grow up.