Thread by @AbhinavAgarwal

Really?
I mean, really??

"India is likely to introduce human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV) this year in the country's immunisation programme"
economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healt…

Parliamentary Panel's report in 2013:
⨀ Out of 100 consent forms for AP Project taken
for study, it was found that signatures of witnesses were missing in 69 forms.
⨀ In many forms there were no dates while in others the signature of just one person appeared in seven forms.

"the ICMR representative on the Project Advisory Committee not only opposed DCGI but also argued that the nature of the project does not require them to follow the clinical trial rules, including reporting of serious adverse effects within a specific time-frame."
#HPV

"The design of the project neither took the possibility of Serious Adverse Event (SAE) seriously nor was there any attention paid to the need for an independent monitoring agency. Consequently action on investigations into the causes of deaths took an unacceptably long time."

"reporting of non-serious AEs was grossly under reported and hence the accuracy of SAEs is doubtful as well."
AE – Adverse Event
SAE – Serious Adverse Event
#HPV

Conflicts of Interest:
"The Secretary, Department of Health Research admitted that presence of ICMR in the Project’s Advisory Committee-responsible and accountable for various acts of omissions and commissions-clearly indicates Conflict of Interest."
#HPV

Conflicts of Interest in the human trials of the HPV in India:
"the Committee picked just one member i.e., Professor and HoD of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G) of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)."

"It was found that manufacturers of Gardasil, Merck was sponsoring and funding a trial in the Department of O&G at AIIMS to determine if 2 doses of Gardasil can be used safely and effectively instead of 3 doses."

"the individual in question availed the hospitality of these very sponsors during the said individual’s visit to Seoul to attend a conference.

The FCRA application form was, therefore, deliberately left incomplete to hide this truth."
#HPV

"The vaccination trials were carried out (in 2010) by an American agency viz. Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH). The project was reportedly funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, an American charity."

The entire report of the Parliamentary Panel, "Alleged Irregularities in the Conduct of Studies using Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine by Path in India (Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare), 2013, is available online:
bit.ly/3muclgF