Bangungot ng Dengvaxia: Sino ang nagmamalasakit sa ating

kalusugan at kapakanan?

Ramon Pedro P. PaternoFormer President

Philippine Academic Society of Community Medicine

PASCOM

March 9, 2018

Panagutin:

Trapos + Sanofi =

Toxic combination =

Bangungot ng Dengvaxia

National Govt & DOH

• Trapos: DOH Sec and former congresswoman Garin + PNoy + DBM Abad

• DOH under Sec Congresswoman Garin

– Formulary Exec Com – failed

– FDA - failed

Ang paggamit ng institution ng pamahalaanpara sa pakinabang ng sarili, grupo or ang namumunong partido

Sanofi’s not so clean record

Sanofi’s relabeling: “new” or “knew” knowledge

Conclusions: Although the unexplained higher incidence of

hospitalization for dengue in year 3 among children younger than 3 years

of age needs to be closely monitored during the long term follow-up…

PHASE 3 study of Dr. Capeding completed only in Sept 2017

Paggamit ng mga institution ng Pamahalaan kagaya ng PhilHealth

Not the first time:

DOH and PhilHealth

25 years of Health Care Reform review:

• The poor did not benefit from the 25 years of Health Care Reforms

• “It is mainly the higher income groups who are able to access health care services”

• The major health policy advisers of the DOH during this period - the USAID funded UP School of Econ health economists – conflict of interest again!

Lgus

Most but not all LGUs look at health simply as medical missions

A few LGUs are addressing the Dengvaxia fiasco

WHO: did WHO endorse Dengvaxia as mass immunization for the Philippines?

WHO’s dependence on Gates Foundation

• Since 1998, Foundation has donated US$2.1 billion in grants

• By 2014 – largest non state funder of the WHO, after the US

Gates Foundation & the Global Alliance for Vaccine & Immunization

GAVI – founded in

2000 by BGF, the WB,

WHO, Unicef &

vaccine

manufacturers, incl

SANOFI

Bloomberg.com reported in Jan 1, 2018 a talk by Bill Gates

The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation bought a stake in Anacor

Pharmaceuticals Inc. in 2013 to encourage it to work on neglected

diseases and sold it 3 years later – making a return of 17%!

Medical Doctors’ statement on the Dengvaxia controversy:

“The only way to continue to prevent deadly epidemics of these infectious diseases is to sustain a high rate of vaccination in our population.”

• Granted, some vaccines have been effective in addressing some infectious diseases: smallpox, polio, measles (our present EPI)

• But the P3.5B Dengvaxia? Is it the only way? Or the most effective way ?

Health in the hands of the people

WHO Alma Ata Primary Health Care

• Health not just the absence of Disease

• Health inequities rooted in social inequities are not acceptable

• Health as a human right

• Government responsibility

• People’s right and duty to participate

• Socio-economic development is key to Health for ALL

People’s oversight on health

Broaden people’s coalition from the Dengvaxia issue to oversight on health and health care

Demand Free Health Care for Dengvaxia immunized children to Free health care for “Dengvaxia” families to Free Health Care for ALL Filipinos based on citizenship and NOT enrollment in PhilHealth

Organized and empowered communities as a foundation to safeguarding our health

Sino ang magmamalasakit sa ating kalusugan

at kapakanan kung hindi tayo, mulat at

organizado at kumikilos?