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Subject: GAVI Letters to MPsDate: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 20:06:43 +0000

Dear GAVI Conference attendees and friends!Dr Jayne Donegan and Nicola Adolphe will be presenting our concerns, re the GAVI and vaccine safety and lack of promotion of other safe health interventions, to O'Brien Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development on December 19th and letters to MPs will really help. Please write to your MPs and copy to Marijke and circulate these draft letters xxDear All,I attach and copy below 3 ideas for letters that you can send your MP.

Please feel welcome to edit and improve, or indeed write your own.Here is the link to find your MP's email if your don't have already.http://www.writetothem.com/Can I kindly ask that you do take the time to send one of these, and also follow them up? If you can please send around to friends. So far just 25 of you have offered to write but I am sure there will be more and I will ask the groups again.

An Arnica member has kindly offered to log emails sent and replied to so please copy her your first letter and any replies.

marijkeh@... Dr Jayne Donegan and Nicola Adolphe will be presenting to O'Brien Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development on December 19th so timings are tight. I trust that you will send a letter asap.. xx

DRAFT 1 – Aimed at a young person writing. Or the word young person (line 1) could be deleted …

Dear Sir/Madam,

As a young person living in the UK, I watch the news and see things that don't make sense to me. I see that Africa has been suffering drought and starvation for decades and no one has found a solution for this yet. I see that Africa has been vaccinating for polio for decades and they still have many paralysed people even though it is not called polio any more.

I see my government telling me that we no longer have any money but we can send the best part of a billion pounds to vaccinate starving African children - not feed them, not give them clean water, not encourage them to breastfeed their babies, not help them plant food but vaccinate them. It turns out that the vaccines should not be given to people with AIDS for example - yet we never see the starving people having blood tests before being vaccinated. We also never see them being fed before being vaccinated. What I would like to know is whether or not this vaccination project is hurting them or helping them. All that money to maybe (and maybe not) prevent diseases when the people are starving and still living in filth does not seem to be the best use to me especially when we know that all medicines can be harmful to the wrong people. Are we making sure our vaccines are not hurting them?I have also read news articles showing that people are being forced to vaccinate their children. In Malawi, parents were held at gunpoint while their children were injected. In Nigeria, parents are threatened with jail if they do not vaccinate. Is my government saying that I should be supporting this type of action?

I don't understand how vaccinating sick, starving people who continue to live in dirty conditions is better than providing them with the ability to feed themselves, drink clean water, flush toilets and wash their hands? We are taught in school that this is how the ns made life better for Britons. Why can we not simply use this money to do the same for Africa?Please can you tell me that people are being fed first in the camps. Do the doctors make sure the children are well enough to receive the vaccines? How are vaccine side effects found out and recorded and who is responsible for this? What happens if someone is harmed by a vaccine? I would also like to know who tests that babies do not have HIV or Aids before vaccinating with live vaccines. Most important though, can you tell me that clean water, sanitation and breastfeeding (which is more effective than the rotavirus vaccine for example) is still the number one priority when we send money to Africa?

Many Thanks

DRAFT 2

Since the UK government pledged £800 million to GAVI in June this year, to extend the vaccine drive in the Developing world, I have watched carefully. I had initial concern that tax payers' money had been given to a group for purchasing vaccines only, rather than life saving interventions like clean birth kits, water projects and breast feeding promotion. I am still deeply worried that the focus and aid may have been diverted when exclusive breast feeding is more effective against rotavirus than the vaccine trials, for example* and when Immunologists would say that it is debatable whether vaccines will work in those with low immunity and poor nutrition.I have since had greater concerns that the administration of the vaccines has been done with such speed and coverage, perhaps to fulfill the contract, that safety has been jeopardized. One example is that the Rota virus vaccine, given several times before a baby is 6 months old, should not be given to those with infections such as HIV or Aids, state the manufacturer. However, the WHO say that it is OK to give Rotavirus to babies with HIV but I think that the details of the study needs to be looked at. The WHO, and UNICEF have not replied to several requests for vaccine safety procedures but GAVI informs me that the WHO guidelines are undertaken. Save the Children state that they do not know how vaccines are administered with regards to safety!Can you please tell me who is independently assessing the UK money pledged to GAVI, particularly the safety policy and procedures. And can you tell me what those policy and procedures are? Furthermore, are you aware of officials in Nigeria's Kano state insisting that parents refusing to have their children vaccinated may be prosecuted, and children in Nsanje, Africa, were vaccinated at gunpoint. These orders came after UNICEF had visited the areas to promote the Polio vaccine. Are you aware that Pakistan is seeing deaths and disabilities with GAVI Polio vaccines and the Prime Minister is meeting NGOs to discuss this.**I look forward to your reply,* Breastfed children are over 6 times less likely to die from diarrhea, The Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) A meta-analysis of three observational studies in developing countries shows that breastfed children under age 6 months are 6.1 times less likely to die of diarrhea than infants who are not breastfed (WHO Collaborative Study Team 2000). http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP/19/Section/2542

** ISLAMABAD: A government inquiry has found that polio vaccines for infants funded by the Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunisation are causing deaths and disabilities in regional countries including Pakistan.

On the instruction of Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, a special meeting under the chairmanship of Begum Shahnaz Wazir Ali has been called on Monday to deliberate upon the report of Prime Minister’s Inspection Commission (PMIC). Chairman Prime Minister’s Inspection Commission Malik Amjad Noon will make a presentation. Representatives of WHO, UNICEF and various NGOs will also participate in the meeting. DRAFT 3As a tax payer, I am requesting information on how the £800 million to GAVI is being independently audited.I would also like to know the safety measures that are used to ensure that health surveillance is carried out by NGOs, like testing that babies do not have HIV or Aids before vaccinating with live vaccines, as per manufacturers contraindications. The WHO and UNICEF have not replied to several requests for vaccine safety procedures. Save the Children state they do not have safety details of vaccine administration. GAVI has said that countries will be following the WHO guidelines but details need to be confirmed.I would like to know how is active surveillance on ADRs carried out and are vaccine deaths and damages compensated, as they are here and in the US?Furthermore, what assurances can you give that vital work with clean water & sanitation, and promoting breastfeeding (which is more effective than the rotavirus vaccine for example) is not adversely affected by a diversion of attention and possibly UK Aid with our GAVI pledge? Water Aid’s Christmas promotion suggests that GP visits would be reduced by 80% if the patients all had access to clean water and sanitation!Arnica - UK Natural Immunity NetworkWebsiteFacebookYahoo

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Subject: GAVI Letters to MPsDate: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 20:06:43 +0000

Dear GAVI Conference attendees and friends!Dr Jayne Donegan and Nicola Adolphe will be presenting our concerns, re the GAVI and vaccine safety and lack of promotion of other safe health interventions, to O'Brien Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development on December 19th and letters to MPs will really help. Please write to your MPs and copy to Marijke and circulate these draft letters xxDear All,I attach and copy below 3 ideas for letters that you can send your MP.

Please feel welcome to edit and improve, or indeed write your own.Here is the link to find your MP's email if your don't have already.http://www.writetothem.com/Can I kindly ask that you do take the time to send one of these, and also follow them up? If you can please send around to friends. So far just 25 of you have offered to write but I am sure there will be more and I will ask the groups again.

An Arnica member has kindly offered to log emails sent and replied to so please copy her your first letter and any replies.

marijkeh@... Dr Jayne Donegan and Nicola Adolphe will be presenting to O'Brien Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development on December 19th so timings are tight. I trust that you will send a letter asap.. xx

DRAFT 1 – Aimed at a young person writing. Or the word young person (line 1) could be deleted …

Dear Sir/Madam,

As a young person living in the UK, I watch the news and see things that don't make sense to me. I see that Africa has been suffering drought and starvation for decades and no one has found a solution for this yet. I see that Africa has been vaccinating for polio for decades and they still have many paralysed people even though it is not called polio any more.

I see my government telling me that we no longer have any money but we can send the best part of a billion pounds to vaccinate starving African children - not feed them, not give them clean water, not encourage them to breastfeed their babies, not help them plant food but vaccinate them. It turns out that the vaccines should not be given to people with AIDS for example - yet we never see the starving people having blood tests before being vaccinated. We also never see them being fed before being vaccinated. What I would like to know is whether or not this vaccination project is hurting them or helping them. All that money to maybe (and maybe not) prevent diseases when the people are starving and still living in filth does not seem to be the best use to me especially when we know that all medicines can be harmful to the wrong people. Are we making sure our vaccines are not hurting them?I have also read news articles showing that people are being forced to vaccinate their children. In Malawi, parents were held at gunpoint while their children were injected. In Nigeria, parents are threatened with jail if they do not vaccinate. Is my government saying that I should be supporting this type of action?

I don't understand how vaccinating sick, starving people who continue to live in dirty conditions is better than providing them with the ability to feed themselves, drink clean water, flush toilets and wash their hands? We are taught in school that this is how the ns made life better for Britons. Why can we not simply use this money to do the same for Africa?Please can you tell me that people are being fed first in the camps. Do the doctors make sure the children are well enough to receive the vaccines? How are vaccine side effects found out and recorded and who is responsible for this? What happens if someone is harmed by a vaccine? I would also like to know who tests that babies do not have HIV or Aids before vaccinating with live vaccines. Most important though, can you tell me that clean water, sanitation and breastfeeding (which is more effective than the rotavirus vaccine for example) is still the number one priority when we send money to Africa?

Many Thanks

DRAFT 2

Since the UK government pledged £800 million to GAVI in June this year, to extend the vaccine drive in the Developing world, I have watched carefully. I had initial concern that tax payers' money had been given to a group for purchasing vaccines only, rather than life saving interventions like clean birth kits, water projects and breast feeding promotion. I am still deeply worried that the focus and aid may have been diverted when exclusive breast feeding is more effective against rotavirus than the vaccine trials, for example* and when Immunologists would say that it is debatable whether vaccines will work in those with low immunity and poor nutrition.I have since had greater concerns that the administration of the vaccines has been done with such speed and coverage, perhaps to fulfill the contract, that safety has been jeopardized. One example is that the Rota virus vaccine, given several times before a baby is 6 months old, should not be given to those with infections such as HIV or Aids, state the manufacturer. However, the WHO say that it is OK to give Rotavirus to babies with HIV but I think that the details of the study needs to be looked at. The WHO, and UNICEF have not replied to several requests for vaccine safety procedures but GAVI informs me that the WHO guidelines are undertaken. Save the Children state that they do not know how vaccines are administered with regards to safety!Can you please tell me who is independently assessing the UK money pledged to GAVI, particularly the safety policy and procedures. And can you tell me what those policy and procedures are? Furthermore, are you aware of officials in Nigeria's Kano state insisting that parents refusing to have their children vaccinated may be prosecuted, and children in Nsanje, Africa, were vaccinated at gunpoint. These orders came after UNICEF had visited the areas to promote the Polio vaccine. Are you aware that Pakistan is seeing deaths and disabilities with GAVI Polio vaccines and the Prime Minister is meeting NGOs to discuss this.**I look forward to your reply,* Breastfed children are over 6 times less likely to die from diarrhea, The Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) A meta-analysis of three observational studies in developing countries shows that breastfed children under age 6 months are 6.1 times less likely to die of diarrhea than infants who are not breastfed (WHO Collaborative Study Team 2000). http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP/19/Section/2542

** ISLAMABAD: A government inquiry has found that polio vaccines for infants funded by the Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunisation are causing deaths and disabilities in regional countries including Pakistan.

On the instruction of Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, a special meeting under the chairmanship of Begum Shahnaz Wazir Ali has been called on Monday to deliberate upon the report of Prime Minister’s Inspection Commission (PMIC). Chairman Prime Minister’s Inspection Commission Malik Amjad Noon will make a presentation. Representatives of WHO, UNICEF and various NGOs will also participate in the meeting. DRAFT 3As a tax payer, I am requesting information on how the £800 million to GAVI is being independently audited.I would also like to know the safety measures that are used to ensure that health surveillance is carried out by NGOs, like testing that babies do not have HIV or Aids before vaccinating with live vaccines, as per manufacturers contraindications. The WHO and UNICEF have not replied to several requests for vaccine safety procedures. Save the Children state they do not have safety details of vaccine administration. GAVI has said that countries will be following the WHO guidelines but details need to be confirmed.I would like to know how is active surveillance on ADRs carried out and are vaccine deaths and damages compensated, as they are here and in the US?Furthermore, what assurances can you give that vital work with clean water & sanitation, and promoting breastfeeding (which is more effective than the rotavirus vaccine for example) is not adversely affected by a diversion of attention and possibly UK Aid with our GAVI pledge? Water Aid’s Christmas promotion suggests that GP visits would be reduced by 80% if the patients all had access to clean water and sanitation!Arnica - UK Natural Immunity NetworkWebsiteFacebookYahoo

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Well well, I;d say that took a long to post........................................9th Dec!!

Subject: GAVI Letters to MPsDate: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 20:06:43 +0000

Dear GAVI Conference attendees and friends!Dr Jayne Donegan and Nicola Adolphe will be presenting our concerns, re the GAVI and vaccine safety and lack of promotion of other safe health interventions, to O'Brien Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development on December 19th and letters to MPs will really help. Please write to your MPs and copy to Marijke and circulate these draft letters xxDear All,I attach and copy below 3 ideas for letters that you can send your MP.

Please feel welcome to edit and improve, or indeed write your own.Here is the link to find your MP's email if your don't have already.http://www.writetothem.com/Can I kindly ask that you do take the time to send one of these, and also follow them up? If you can please send around to friends. So far just 25 of you have offered to write but I am sure there will be more and I will ask the groups again.

An Arnica member has kindly offered to log emails sent and replied to so please copy her your first letter and any replies.

marijkeh@... Dr Jayne Donegan and Nicola Adolphe will be presenting to O'Brien Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development on December 19th so timings are tight. I trust that you will send a letter asap.. xx

DRAFT 1 – Aimed at a young person writing. Or the word young person (line 1) could be deleted …

Dear Sir/Madam,

As a young person living in the UK, I watch the news and see things that don't make sense to me. I see that Africa has been suffering drought and starvation for decades and no one has found a solution for this yet. I see that Africa has been vaccinating for polio for decades and they still have many paralysed people even though it is not called polio any more.

I see my government telling me that we no longer have any money but we can send the best part of a billion pounds to vaccinate starving African children - not feed them, not give them clean water, not encourage them to breastfeed their babies, not help them plant food but vaccinate them. It turns out that the vaccines should not be given to people with AIDS for example - yet we never see the starving people having blood tests before being vaccinated. We also never see them being fed before being vaccinated. What I would like to know is whether or not this vaccination project is hurting them or helping them. All that money to maybe (and maybe not) prevent diseases when the people are starving and still living in filth does not seem to be the best use to me especially when we know that all medicines can be harmful to the wrong people. Are we making sure our vaccines are not hurting them?I have also read news articles showing that people are being forced to vaccinate their children. In Malawi, parents were held at gunpoint while their children were injected. In Nigeria, parents are threatened with jail if they do not vaccinate. Is my government saying that I should be supporting this type of action?

I don't understand how vaccinating sick, starving people who continue to live in dirty conditions is better than providing them with the ability to feed themselves, drink clean water, flush toilets and wash their hands? We are taught in school that this is how the ns made life better for Britons. Why can we not simply use this money to do the same for Africa?Please can you tell me that people are being fed first in the camps. Do the doctors make sure the children are well enough to receive the vaccines? How are vaccine side effects found out and recorded and who is responsible for this? What happens if someone is harmed by a vaccine? I would also like to know who tests that babies do not have HIV or Aids before vaccinating with live vaccines. Most important though, can you tell me that clean water, sanitation and breastfeeding (which is more effective than the rotavirus vaccine for example) is still the number one priority when we send money to Africa?

Many Thanks

DRAFT 2

Since the UK government pledged £800 million to GAVI in June this year, to extend the vaccine drive in the Developing world, I have watched carefully. I had initial concern that tax payers' money had been given to a group for purchasing vaccines only, rather than life saving interventions like clean birth kits, water projects and breast feeding promotion. I am still deeply worried that the focus and aid may have been diverted when exclusive breast feeding is more effective against rotavirus than the vaccine trials, for example* and when Immunologists would say that it is debatable whether vaccines will work in those with low immunity and poor nutrition.I have since had greater concerns that the administration of the vaccines has been done with such speed and coverage, perhaps to fulfill the contract, that safety has been jeopardized. One example is that the Rota virus vaccine, given several times before a baby is 6 months old, should not be given to those with infections such as HIV or Aids, state the manufacturer. However, the WHO say that it is OK to give Rotavirus to babies with HIV but I think that the details of the study needs to be looked at. The WHO, and UNICEF have not replied to several requests for vaccine safety procedures but GAVI informs me that the WHO guidelines are undertaken. Save the Children state that they do not know how vaccines are administered with regards to safety!Can you please tell me who is independently assessing the UK money pledged to GAVI, particularly the safety policy and procedures. And can you tell me what those policy and procedures are? Furthermore, are you aware of officials in Nigeria's Kano state insisting that parents refusing to have their children vaccinated may be prosecuted, and children in Nsanje, Africa, were vaccinated at gunpoint. These orders came after UNICEF had visited the areas to promote the Polio vaccine. Are you aware that Pakistan is seeing deaths and disabilities with GAVI Polio vaccines and the Prime Minister is meeting NGOs to discuss this.**I look forward to your reply,* Breastfed children are over 6 times less likely to die from diarrhea, The Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) A meta-analysis of three observational studies in developing countries shows that breastfed children under age 6 months are 6.1 times less likely to die of diarrhea than infants who are not breastfed (WHO Collaborative Study Team 2000). http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP/19/Section/2542

** ISLAMABAD: A government inquiry has found that polio vaccines for infants funded by the Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunisation are causing deaths and disabilities in regional countries including Pakistan.

On the instruction of Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, a special meeting under the chairmanship of Begum Shahnaz Wazir Ali has been called on Monday to deliberate upon the report of Prime Minister’s Inspection Commission (PMIC). Chairman Prime Minister’s Inspection Commission Malik Amjad Noon will make a presentation. Representatives of WHO, UNICEF and various NGOs will also participate in the meeting. DRAFT 3As a tax payer, I am requesting information on how the £800 million to GAVI is being independently audited.I would also like to know the safety measures that are used to ensure that health surveillance is carried out by NGOs, like testing that babies do not have HIV or Aids before vaccinating with live vaccines, as per manufacturers contraindications. The WHO and UNICEF have not replied to several requests for vaccine safety procedures. Save the Children state they do not have safety details of vaccine administration. GAVI has said that countries will be following the WHO guidelines but details need to be confirmed.I would like to know how is active surveillance on ADRs carried out and are vaccine deaths and damages compensated, as they are here and in the US?Furthermore, what assurances can you give that vital work with clean water & sanitation, and promoting breastfeeding (which is more effective than the rotavirus vaccine for example) is not adversely affected by a diversion of attention and possibly UK Aid with our GAVI pledge? Water Aid’s Christmas promotion suggests that GP visits would be reduced by 80% if the patients all had access to clean water and sanitation!Arnica - UK Natural Immunity NetworkWebsiteFacebookYahoo

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[Guest guest]

Well well, I;d say that took a long to post........................................9th Dec!!

Subject: GAVI Letters to MPsDate: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 20:06:43 +0000

Dear GAVI Conference attendees and friends!Dr Jayne Donegan and Nicola Adolphe will be presenting our concerns, re the GAVI and vaccine safety and lack of promotion of other safe health interventions, to O'Brien Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development on December 19th and letters to MPs will really help. Please write to your MPs and copy to Marijke and circulate these draft letters xxDear All,I attach and copy below 3 ideas for letters that you can send your MP.

Please feel welcome to edit and improve, or indeed write your own.Here is the link to find your MP's email if your don't have already.http://www.writetothem.com/Can I kindly ask that you do take the time to send one of these, and also follow them up? If you can please send around to friends. So far just 25 of you have offered to write but I am sure there will be more and I will ask the groups again.

An Arnica member has kindly offered to log emails sent and replied to so please copy her your first letter and any replies.

marijkeh@... Dr Jayne Donegan and Nicola Adolphe will be presenting to O'Brien Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development on December 19th so timings are tight. I trust that you will send a letter asap.. xx

DRAFT 1 – Aimed at a young person writing. Or the word young person (line 1) could be deleted …

Dear Sir/Madam,

As a young person living in the UK, I watch the news and see things that don't make sense to me. I see that Africa has been suffering drought and starvation for decades and no one has found a solution for this yet. I see that Africa has been vaccinating for polio for decades and they still have many paralysed people even though it is not called polio any more.

I see my government telling me that we no longer have any money but we can send the best part of a billion pounds to vaccinate starving African children - not feed them, not give them clean water, not encourage them to breastfeed their babies, not help them plant food but vaccinate them. It turns out that the vaccines should not be given to people with AIDS for example - yet we never see the starving people having blood tests before being vaccinated. We also never see them being fed before being vaccinated. What I would like to know is whether or not this vaccination project is hurting them or helping them. All that money to maybe (and maybe not) prevent diseases when the people are starving and still living in filth does not seem to be the best use to me especially when we know that all medicines can be harmful to the wrong people. Are we making sure our vaccines are not hurting them?I have also read news articles showing that people are being forced to vaccinate their children. In Malawi, parents were held at gunpoint while their children were injected. In Nigeria, parents are threatened with jail if they do not vaccinate. Is my government saying that I should be supporting this type of action?

I don't understand how vaccinating sick, starving people who continue to live in dirty conditions is better than providing them with the ability to feed themselves, drink clean water, flush toilets and wash their hands? We are taught in school that this is how the ns made life better for Britons. Why can we not simply use this money to do the same for Africa?Please can you tell me that people are being fed first in the camps. Do the doctors make sure the children are well enough to receive the vaccines? How are vaccine side effects found out and recorded and who is responsible for this? What happens if someone is harmed by a vaccine? I would also like to know who tests that babies do not have HIV or Aids before vaccinating with live vaccines. Most important though, can you tell me that clean water, sanitation and breastfeeding (which is more effective than the rotavirus vaccine for example) is still the number one priority when we send money to Africa?

Many Thanks

DRAFT 2

Since the UK government pledged £800 million to GAVI in June this year, to extend the vaccine drive in the Developing world, I have watched carefully. I had initial concern that tax payers' money had been given to a group for purchasing vaccines only, rather than life saving interventions like clean birth kits, water projects and breast feeding promotion. I am still deeply worried that the focus and aid may have been diverted when exclusive breast feeding is more effective against rotavirus than the vaccine trials, for example* and when Immunologists would say that it is debatable whether vaccines will work in those with low immunity and poor nutrition.I have since had greater concerns that the administration of the vaccines has been done with such speed and coverage, perhaps to fulfill the contract, that safety has been jeopardized. One example is that the Rota virus vaccine, given several times before a baby is 6 months old, should not be given to those with infections such as HIV or Aids, state the manufacturer. However, the WHO say that it is OK to give Rotavirus to babies with HIV but I think that the details of the study needs to be looked at. The WHO, and UNICEF have not replied to several requests for vaccine safety procedures but GAVI informs me that the WHO guidelines are undertaken. Save the Children state that they do not know how vaccines are administered with regards to safety!Can you please tell me who is independently assessing the UK money pledged to GAVI, particularly the safety policy and procedures. And can you tell me what those policy and procedures are? Furthermore, are you aware of officials in Nigeria's Kano state insisting that parents refusing to have their children vaccinated may be prosecuted, and children in Nsanje, Africa, were vaccinated at gunpoint. These orders came after UNICEF had visited the areas to promote the Polio vaccine. Are you aware that Pakistan is seeing deaths and disabilities with GAVI Polio vaccines and the Prime Minister is meeting NGOs to discuss this.**I look forward to your reply,* Breastfed children are over 6 times less likely to die from diarrhea, The Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) A meta-analysis of three observational studies in developing countries shows that breastfed children under age 6 months are 6.1 times less likely to die of diarrhea than infants who are not breastfed (WHO Collaborative Study Team 2000). http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP/19/Section/2542

** ISLAMABAD: A government inquiry has found that polio vaccines for infants funded by the Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunisation are causing deaths and disabilities in regional countries including Pakistan.

On the instruction of Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, a special meeting under the chairmanship of Begum Shahnaz Wazir Ali has been called on Monday to deliberate upon the report of Prime Minister’s Inspection Commission (PMIC). Chairman Prime Minister’s Inspection Commission Malik Amjad Noon will make a presentation. Representatives of WHO, UNICEF and various NGOs will also participate in the meeting. DRAFT 3As a tax payer, I am requesting information on how the £800 million to GAVI is being independently audited.I would also like to know the safety measures that are used to ensure that health surveillance is carried out by NGOs, like testing that babies do not have HIV or Aids before vaccinating with live vaccines, as per manufacturers contraindications. The WHO and UNICEF have not replied to several requests for vaccine safety procedures. Save the Children state they do not have safety details of vaccine administration. GAVI has said that countries will be following the WHO guidelines but details need to be confirmed.I would like to know how is active surveillance on ADRs carried out and are vaccine deaths and damages compensated, as they are here and in the US?Furthermore, what assurances can you give that vital work with clean water & sanitation, and promoting breastfeeding (which is more effective than the rotavirus vaccine for example) is not adversely affected by a diversion of attention and possibly UK Aid with our GAVI pledge? Water Aid’s Christmas promotion suggests that GP visits would be reduced by 80% if the patients all had access to clean water and sanitation!Arnica - UK Natural Immunity NetworkWebsiteFacebookYahoo

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