Sad about Death by this issue but it still amazes me in this day and age, that the Authorities will only speak out about Prevention after the Event. Maybe it is me but I still subscribe to Prevention, is better than cure ( or at least on the right Road) DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental
Garin on Monday announced that the dengue vaccine will enter the Philippine market next week. "Philippines is the only country where three phases of the clinical trial were done... It's a reflection of how good our researchers are," Garin explained in a television interview. Garin added that the government has already set P3 billion in the 2016 budget for the dengue vaccine. She said the dengue vaccine is expensive because only one company is producing it, the Sanofi Pasteur. The Philippines was given a discount when the Department of Finance met with the company's executives during the APEC Summit in November. An additional discount of 34 percent was given to the Philippines after President Benigno Aquino III met with another executive in France, she said. "When the President visited Paris for the COP21 [21st Conference of Parties], he had a meeting with the executive of this company and we were given an additional 34 percent discount," she said. - See more at: Dengue vaccine available in PHL market next week | News | GMA News Online
There were 17 deaths from Dengue last year? I'd bet that the common flu kills many more a year. There are 100 million people in the Philippines. Spending P3 billion on something that kills 0.000017% of the population a year is a massive waste of money IMO. (And this vaccine can only be given to people who have already contracted Dengue once before.) There are far better things to spend P3 billion on that would save MANY more lives. Curious what that initial discount was.
