Before you go on vacation, Marisol Touraine wished to make a wakeup call to the French beset by doubt face vaccines. “Immunization is fundamental,” she insisted in Le Parisien , promising a great national debate for the fall. Specialists to field practitioners, many share the concern of the minister, but they are also very likely to find the message of health authorities “inefficient”
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“It is important to give an objective, balanced, including through transparency in vaccine evaluation data. All products do not have the same interest, some rare side effects that should not deny, “summarizes Bruno Toussaint, head of Prescrire.
Possible side effects but also some shortage of DT-Polio akin to the forced sale for more expensive products covering other conditions, closer ties between the body responsible for determining vaccine policy and the pharmaceutical industry … some critics point to the lack of independence of the authorities in relation to firms.
While the government is considering a cons-offensive to prevent infectious diseases, lab, GSK is already on the front line in the battle for vaccination. In collaboration with some primary funds Medicare or maternal and child health who provide their own cross data with vaccine sales figures, it launched Carto Vaccines, software that provides an inventory extremely specific immunization coverage, at the level of municipalities or districts. This tool is made available to institutions free. Once identified, anti-sting general see themselves rewarded with a letter or a visit from a delegate of Medicare.
In refractory areas, meetings are organized to mobilize health professionals. Launched in Montpellier to improve coverage against measles, the initiative has already spread in Haute-Vienne and Corrèze (flu and measles) and in the Yvelines (flu and childhood vaccines). The general Patricia Lefebure, head of the union of doctors Federation for France Yvelines irritated to see that the “authorities outsource public health to the industry.” Critics who leave marble Rachedi its sister Nadia. This doctor, Manager in the management of maternal and child health Herault, was behind the creation of the software. “Measles is in full resurgence since 2008 in Languedoc-Roussillon. We had the idea of a tool to identify the origin of the epidemic,” she said.
After searching in vain for a financing from its supervisory authorities, the doctor agreed with GSK. “We would have preferred the money to come from elsewhere, but there is none. Our priority is public health.” Virtuous pilot or influence of the industry on the Safely? This is a good object of study for the fall debate on vaccines.
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