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Old July 17th 07, 02:25 PM posted to misc.kids.health
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Research on Hib vaccine 'dubious'

Author: Jacob M Puliyel, M.D.
(Senior Member, Indian Medical Association,

Vice Chairman, IMA Sub Committee on Immunisation)
Affiliation:

Head of Paediatrics

St Stephens Hospital

Delhi, India
Date: 10 July 2007

I was quoted in the Hib vaccine news story from 4 July (see Hib
vaccine could save thousands in Asia), but perhaps due to constraints of
column space, I feel justice was not done to what I said.

My main argument against the research findings from Bangladesh is not
that it does not make economic sense, but that the study is seriously
flawed. The visible enthusiasm of the sponsors of the study must not be
allowed to cloud scientific objectivity.

In the study, cases of pneumonia were compared with a control group
without pneumonia.

Because more children in the control group received the Hib vaccine,
the researchers considered the vaccine to prevent pneumonia.

But closer reading of the paper suggests that the Hib vaccination
status in the control children was only coincidental.

The control children were significantly richer, lived in better
houses and their mothers were better educated. With their greater affluence,
more children in the control group probably wore branded T-shirts, but we
would not expect Nike or Reebok to suggest that wearing their apparel is
protective against pneumonia.

Where starvation and cholera kill thousands of children each year,
international agencies such as the GAVI Alliance, USAID and the WHO are busy
spending millions on dubious research to emphasise the harm from a disease
that local doctors hardly ever come across. All this so that vaccine
manufacturers can fill their coffers. This situation can only be described
as scandalous.

It is unfortunate that five resource poor countries -- Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka -- have been persuaded to
undertake the expensive intervention on the basis of flawed research.

Lois Privor-Dumm says in your report that Bangladesh is eligible for
funding for the Hib vaccine from the GAVI Alliance, so they will only have
to pay 20 US cents per dose instead of US$5.60 per dose. He failed to
mention that there is no long-term assurance of continued GAVI funding, or
that funding will be withdrawn soon after universal vaccination becomes
government policy.

http://www.scidev.net/EditorLetters/...9&l anguage=1




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Old July 17th 07, 02:29 PM posted to misc.kids.health
Jeff
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JOHN wrote:
...

http://www.scidev.net/EditorLetters/...9&l anguage=1


It should be noted that the letter does not apply to developed
countries, like the US and those in Europe.

Jeff
 




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