One-sided view of the AVN

[Guest guest]

To whom it may concern:

In reply to your article today, Complaint against anti-vaccination

group, a piece which labels the Australian vaccination network as not

only anti-vaccination but militant (the mind boggles!), it is time to

set the record straight regarding what our organisation actually

stands for - something which good journalistic practice would have

seen you investigating prior to publishing this piece.

The AVN is a non-profit volunteer-run organisation which supports the

right of all Australians to make free and informed health choices. We

never have and never will tell anyone that they should or should not

vaccinate - that is a parent's decision. We simply fill the

information void left by a government and mainstream medical community

which consistently claim that unlike every other issue in the world,

when it comes to vaccination - there is only one side people should be

made aware of.

In contrast to the claims in 6Minutes, the AVN never has and never

will recommend that parents use homoeoprophylaxis (which is its proper

name) or herbal remedies. We are not health practitioners and giving

medical advice is not our role. We certainly have published articles

on both of these subjects in our magazine - Living Wisdom. These

articles were written by the top experts in these fields. These

articles empowered parents to examine the issues for themselves and

begin to weigh up what was best for their children.

Vaccines have been linked in the medical literature and in court

documents with autism, minimal brain damage, asthma, eczema, MS,

paralysis, food and environmental allergies and a host of other

conditions - both chronic and transitory. There have even been deaths

linked with vaccination over the years - deaths which have been

acknowledged by governments around the world.

In a nation like Australia which sees over 18,000 people die each year

in the public hospital system alone due to preventable medical error

and hospital-borne infections, one would think that 6Minutes would

find something more useful to do than to criticise an organisation

which provides referenced material to parents who are trying to take

responsibility for their family's health.

Meryl Dorey,

National President

The Australian Vaccination Network, Inc.

Investigate before you vaccinate

Editor,

Living Wisdom Magazine

Family, Health, Environment

PO Box 177

BANGALOW NSW 2479

AUSTRALIA

http://www.avn.org.au

http://www.living-wisdom.com

Phone: 02 6687 1699 - FAX 02 6687 2032

skype: ivmmag