The Gates Foundation co-founded Gavi and is one of its four permanent board members. UNICEF, the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO) — whose second-largest donor is Gates — hold the other permanent seats.
The Clinton Health Access Initiative also sits on the board.
James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D., a critic of the global HPV vaccine campaign, suggested mass vaccination will cause a devastating number of serious side effects among young girls, even though there are still no studies showing the HPV vaccine prevents cancer, despite claims to the contrary by vaccine makers and public health officials.
Lyons-Weiler, head of the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge, told The Defender:
“In 2009, we were told the Severe Adverse Event [SAE] rate of HPV vaccines was 6.5%. But a study we published in Science, Public Health Policy & The Law showed that the adverse events profile of the HPV vaccine is far worse than has been reported.
“Unleashing this vaccine on millions of girls and young women will lead to a mass casualty event these countries do not now have, and do not need. SAE’s will occur at the rate of 65,000 per million women vaccinated, and the claimed net benefits of the vaccine are just not there.”
Nigeria earlier this month became the latest country in Africa to promote HPV vaccines by introducing the vaccine into its routine immunization program and announcing an initial drive to vaccinate 7.7 million girls — the largest number yet in a single round of HPV vaccination in Africa.
Gavi said Nigeria’s initiative would kick off with a five-day mass vaccination drive in schools and communities in 16 of Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. Phase 2 of the campaign will launch in the rest of the country in May 2024.
Gavi, UNICEF, the WHO and other “unnamed partners” are providing financial support so Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health can offer the vaccines at no charge across the country.
Gavi is co-financing vaccine purchases and providing technical support. The WHO paid to train workers and set up vaccination sites. UNICEF is providing 15 million vaccines, infrastructure for cold storage and logistical support. It is also running radio and TV ads “in multiple local languages to dispel misinformation and rumours,” the press release said.
The partners trained over 35,000 health workers to deliver the vaccines at 4,163 sites across the 16 states participating in phase one of the rollout “to ensure no eligible girl is left behind.” Mobile vaccination units will be sent to remote communities.
The vaccine rollout in Nigeria comes on the heels of a similar Gavi-led — and UNICEF-, WHO- and Clinton Health Access Initiative-supported — national HPV campaign launched in Indonesia in August to add HPV vaccine to that country’s routine schedule. The initiative aims to vaccinate 90% of girls there.
Bangladesh also launched a similar national HPV vaccine rollout in October, aiming for 100% coverage. Zambia launched the same initiative in September, vaccinating 1.42 million girls ages 9-14 in six days.
Sierra Leone introduced the vaccine into its routine vaccination program in October and Eritrea launched a nationwide vaccine program in November 2022.
These programs are part of a 2020 program initiated by the WHO’s World Health Assembly to eradicate cervical cancer as a public health problem worldwide.
Gavi, the WHO and UNICEF are interconnected in a number of ways. Gavi is a public-private partnership launched in 1999 at a World Economic Forum meeting. By its own count, it has vaccinated 1 billion children since then, by employing “innovative finance and the latest technology.”
Lyons-Weiler disagreed:
“First, the studies never showed that HPV vaccines reduce the incidence of cervical cancer.
“Instead, they showed the HPV vaccines reduce the prevalence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, a precondition sometimes associated with cervical cancer, associated with HPV-vaccine targeted HPVs.
“The second important point, and this is directly related to the first, is that the biomedical research literature is filled with studies that show that HPV vaccination programs have actually caused the replacement of the previously most common types of HPVs with rarer types of HPVs that also cause cancer. This is known as HPV-type replacement.
“Rarer types of HPVs can be less common because they are more deadly. So this means that HPV vaccine programs should lead to an increase in cervical cancer rates even in fully vaccinated populations, involving more aggressive cancers at an earlier age.”
The Gardasil vaccine has been linked to myriad adverse events. Some of the signature impacts observed following HPV vaccination include permanently disabling autoimmune and neurological conditions such as postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS, fibromyalgia and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.
There have been thousands of reports of adverse events worldwide. Peer-reviewed scientific literature from the U.S., Australia, Denmark, Sweden, France and Japan, and statistics published by public health agencies in each of these countries demonstrate plausible associations between HPV vaccination and autoimmune conditions.
The federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out more than $70 million to people making claims regarding Gardasil for injuries. There are currently about 80 cases pending against Merck for vaccine injuries in federal court in the U.S.
Michael Baum, senior partner at Wisner Baum and the attorney representing vaccine-injured plaintiffs in several lawsuits against Merck, told The Defender that the data on HPV vaccine injuries in the U.S. raises serious concerns about Nigeria’s mass vaccination program:
“U.S. data makes it clear that vaccinating millions of Nigerian girls with Gardasil will cause a staggering number of serious adverse events, including death. Before COVID, Gardasil had more adverse event reports in the U.S. than any other vaccine.
“We know it is dangerous, and on top of that, its efficacy in preventing cervical cancer has never truly been established. There is not a single study that shows Gardasil can prevent cervical cancer because Merck’s studies were not designed to establish that claim. Nevertheless, Merck markets Gardasil around the world as a ‘cervical cancer vaccine.’
Lyons-Weiler told The Defender that resources now going into vaccination should instead go toward cervical cancer screening, which for most people is a curative diagnostic.
“Early detection is key, and delaying screening because one feels protected due to the misleading narrative over HPV vaccines protecting against cervical cancer will lead to increased cases of late-stage cancer, and deaths,” he said.
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