[NVIC] Mandated HPV Vaccine Guarantees Pharma Profit

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BL Fisher Note:

Well, at least there is public admission that without mandates the vaccine

makers are not guaranteed profits. The vaccine lobby knows that if they

don't have the power to force the people to use every vaccine they create,

vaccines will be subject to the law of supply and demand like every other

product in the free enterprise system and a majority of people might just

say no. With vaccine makers being protected from all liability for vaccine

injuries and deaths, the ethical right to informed consent becomes even more

important. No liability? No mandates.

http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=33216

Kaiser network.org, DC

Bioethics & Science | USA Today, Fortune Magazine Examine Debate Over

Experimental HPV Vaccines

[Oct 20, 2005]

A " much anticipated " vaccine for human papillomavirus, the primary

cause of cervical cancer, could reach the market by 2006, but a " number of

questions remain " about whether males and females should be immunized and if

all age groups would benefit from the vaccination, USA Today reports (Rubin,

USA Today, 10/20). Merck and GlaxoKline are developing HPV vaccines

that could receive FDA approval next year. About 20 million people in the

U.S. have a form of HPV, and cervical cancer causes the deaths of about

300,000 women annually worldwide, including about 3,700 in the U.S. (Kaiser

Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 10/7). Several public health

organizations support vaccinating females at age 11 or 12, most of whom are

not yet sexually active. They say that vaccinating younger children might

not be cost-effective because the immunity conferred by the vaccine might

not remain by the time youth become sexually active. In addition, some

research suggests that inoculating young men, who cannot get cervical cancer

but who can spread HPV to their female sexual partners, might not be

cost-effective. Several groups that support abstinence-only education,

including the Family Research Council, have concerns that an HPV vaccination

might promote premarital sex, but some such groups " appear to be warming to

the idea of a cancer vaccine, " according to USA Today. Meanwhile, a study of

320 parents and their adolescents ages 12 to 17 published last month in the

Journal of Adolescent Health suggests that they likely would welcome an HPV

vaccine (USA Today, 10/20).

Fortune Magazine Examines Debate

Fortune magazine in its Oct. 31 issue reported how the CDC Advisory

Committee on Immunization Practices will serve as " the stage on which a

modern drama of health and morality will ultimately play out " as it debates

at what age young women should receive an HPV vaccine. The vaccines already

are " at the center of a brewing storm over cost, social class, family values

and women's health, " according to Fortune. ACIP, which compiles a national

list of vaccinations for physicians to administer and for insurers and

federal funding to cover, will make recommendations about the most

appropriate age for girls to receive the vaccine. Researchers say that if

girls received the vaccine before they become sexually active, cervical

cancer could become a " minor threat, " Fortune reports. Although ACIP

approval is nonbinding, most states rely on its recommendations to authorize

which vaccines children must receive before entering school, and if the

panel " doesn't give its blessing, a vaccine can fail " on the market,

according to Fortune (Guyon, Fortune, 10/31).

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