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India and HPV vaccines: Subterfuge in a Syringe?

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India [SaneVax: The Supreme Court in India has issued scathing comments about the HPV vaccine ‘demonstration’ projects conducted in India with HPV vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, which were halted in 2010 under allegations of unethical conduct. Will HPV vaccines turn out to be nothing more than subterfuge in a syringe? The following press release from India explains […]

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HPV Vaccine Fiasco in India: Government Issues Warning Letter

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[SaneVax: It appears the most effective immunity vaccines offer is the immunity from prosecution. The Indian government investigation into the alleged ethics violations occurring during demonstration projects which were halted after allegations made by multiple medical professionals and local advocates have apparently come to a conclusion. The government response was simply a warning letter asking […]

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False Claims by PATH to Institute HPV Vaccine Trials in India?

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[SaneVax: According to the article below, PATH may have over-stated the cervical cancer burden in various parts of India in order to obtain permission to conduct clinical trials of HPV vaccines in India. Are they doing the same thing in other “PATH” countries? Once again, it appears we have a case of not providing the […]

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Do cervical cancer data justify HPV vaccination in India? Epidemiological data sources and comprehensiveness

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Published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine; June 2012 105:229 Authors: I Mattheij,1   AM Pollock,2 P Brhlikova3 Summary The Indian government suspended research in April 2010 on the feasibility and safety of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in two Indian states (Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat) amid public concerns about its safety. This paper describes cervical cancer […]

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Path’s HPV Trials in India: Troubling Questions

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[SaneVax: The questions Professor Allyson Pollock discusses with Newsclick regarding the Path sponsored Human Pappilomavirus Vaccine trials in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh are the same questions every government in the world should be asking. She brings up many troubling issues raised by such trials, not just the more controversial one surrounding the lack of informed consent. […]

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Health ministry yet to initiate action on violations in trials of HPV vaccine in AP and Gujarat

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By Joseph Alexander, New Delhi Ethics Violations? Even after several months since the expert committee found irregularities in the clinical trials of Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine (HPV vaccine) that allegedly caused deaths of a few trial subjects, the authorities are still sitting on the report and failed to initiate any punitive action. According to a […]

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Brinda to Azad: Take action against violators of HPV project

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By Kounteya Sinha, TNN, The Times of India NEW DELHI: The controversy surrounding the use of human papilloma virus (HPV) in India is back to haunt the Union health ministry. Former Rajya Sabha member Brinda Karat has written a scathing letter to Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, drawing his attention to an article published in the Bulletin […]

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A Vaccine That Works Only Half the Time Is Not the Shot in the Arm Malaria Needs

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By Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Executive Director of Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, Doctors Without Borders Last week saw the announcement of a new weapon in the fight against malaria. GlaxoSmithKline, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the PATH Initiative together announced on Tuesday early results of a clinical trial in Africa of a malaria vaccine that cuts […]

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Saheli finds Enquiry of PATH project on HPV vaccines still shielding the

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Saheli finds Enquiry of PATH project on HPV vaccines still shielding the guilty Our worst fears about unethical conduct of bio-medical research have been confirmed by the interim report of the enquiry panel set up by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to enquire into violations in PATH-ICMR project though on each count the enquiry […]

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