Indonesia Health Minister Warns MNCs Testing Pediatric Vaccines
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Indonesia's health minister called for scientific proof that foreign drug makers are not using her nation to test pediatric vaccines. Minister Siti Fadillah Supari said that if MNCs cannot prove their vaccines against chicken pox, flu, pneumonia, rubella and typhoid are beneficial, "they have to be stopped." She said she did not want Indonesia to be used as a testing ground, as she said has occurred in Africa. She acknowledged, however, that vaccinations against hepatitis B, measles, polio, tetanus and tuberculosis should continue. (Click here for more