Janerik Larsson
Michael Gerson skriver i sin krönika i Washington Post om en positiv ”konspiration”.
Här bakgrunden:
In the category of stunning, heartening, woefully underreported good news: In 2000, an estimated 9.9 million children around the world died before age 5. In 2013, the figure was 6.3 million. That is 3.6 million fewer deaths, even as the world’s population increased by about 1 billion.
There are a variety of reasons for increased child survival, including improved prevention of malaria and HIV. But according to a recent report in the Lancet, about half of these gains came from reductions in pneumonia, diarrhea and measles — diseases addressed by vaccination. We are seeing the continuation of what is perhaps the greatest scientific contribution to human well-being: the artificial preparation of the immune system to ward off bacteria and viruses.
Förklaringen:
One little-known global institution based in Geneva — Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance — supports vaccination for nearly 60 percent of the world’s children. It is a global conspiracy of health. Gavi provides heavy but eventually diminishing subsidies for immunizations in poor countries. It also acts as a sort of purchasing co-op, helping nations get better prices on vaccines. And it amounts to a guaranteed market for vaccines that would not otherwise be profitable to research and produce.
Det Gerson inte berör är att det finns religiösa/politiska rörelser som bekämpar vaccinerandet eftersom det anses vara en ”västerländsk konspiration”.
Här ett klipp från en asiatisk nyhetstjänst (se länken för hela artikeln):
A vicious and violent anti-polio vaccination campaign launched by the Taliban in the aftermath of a US raid in 2011 has left hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis skeptical of allowing health workers to administer the life-saving drug. Only three countries in the world have failed to stop the transmission of polio – Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan.
Despite the progress achieved since 1988, the virus is spreading at an alarming rate in Pakistan mainly due to the misconception that the vaccine is a Western poison to make Muslims infertile or serve a bigger agenda – total eradication. This has severely affected the drive against polio and put lives of health workers at risk.