I highly recommend an excellent run down of the pandemic vaccine issue from a non-industrialized nation perspective from the Star Online [Malaysia].
Sunday May 10, 2009
By LEE TSE LING
When will an A(H1N1) flu vaccine be ready and who will get it? Fit4Life looks at flu vaccine production, distribution and its role in mitigating a pandemic.
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Vaccines for all?
Poorer, developing countries face the constant worry that richer, developed countries will appropriate, industrialise, and profit from native resources they lack the ability to develop. The sense of exploitation intensifies when “donor” countries cannot afford to purchase the end-products of these transfers, what more when the end-product is a life-saving one. A vaccine, for example.
Please do read it. It is well done, accurate, timely, and refreshingly candid in its tone of “it is what it is“.
