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Can somebody with insight into the area explain how much of the difficulty in vaccinating children is due to political/cultural reasons and how much is logisti

Can somebody with insight into the area explain how much of the difficulty in vaccinating children is due to political/cultural reasons and how much is logistics? Also, I'm just impressed with Bill Gates. Here is a man who had everything and and decided to do as much good as possible with it.

masklinn 8y ago
It's highly dependent on the environment. In sub-saharan africa it's mostly logistics, in western countries it's cultural (anti-vaxxers), in some other countries it's political e.g. fear of western interventionism and harm under guise of humanitarianism… sadly justified: the CIA organised fake vaccination campaigns in Pakistan to pinpoint OBL, and while officially that program was shut down who'd trust these claims?
- emiliobumachar 8y ago
  Wow, I did learn something today. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vaccination-campaign-endangers-us-all/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacc... "In its zeal to identify bin Laden or his family, the CIA used a sham hepatitis B vaccination project to collect DNA in the neighborhood where he was hiding." [...] "The deadly consequences have already begun. Villagers along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border chased off legitimate vaccine workers, accusing them of being spies. Taliban commanders banned polio vaccinations in parts of Pakistan, specifically citing the bin Laden ruse as justification. Then, last December, nine vaccine workers were murdered in Pakistan, eventually prompting the United Nations to withdraw its vaccination teams. Two months later gunmen killed 10 polio workers in Nigeria—a sign that the violence against vaccinators may be spreading."
  - arcbyte 8y ago
    "The CIA" - is made up of people. Who are the specific people that came up with this idea, pitched it, agreed to it, and executed it? Names are needed.

masklinn 8y ago

It's highly dependent on the environment. In sub-saharan africa it's mostly logistics, in western countries it's cultural (anti-vaxxers), in some other countries it's political e.g. fear of western interventionism and harm under guise of humanitarianism… sadly justified: the CIA organised fake vaccination campaigns in Pakistan to pinpoint OBL, and while officially that program was shut down who'd trust these claims?

emiliobumachar 8y ago
Wow, I did learn something today. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vaccination-campaign-endangers-us-all/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacc... "In its zeal to identify bin Laden or his family, the CIA used a sham hepatitis B vaccination project to collect DNA in the neighborhood where he was hiding." [...] "The deadly consequences have already begun. Villagers along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border chased off legitimate vaccine workers, accusing them of being spies. Taliban commanders banned polio vaccinations in parts of Pakistan, specifically citing the bin Laden ruse as justification. Then, last December, nine vaccine workers were murdered in Pakistan, eventually prompting the United Nations to withdraw its vaccination teams. Two months later gunmen killed 10 polio workers in Nigeria—a sign that the violence against vaccinators may be spreading."
- arcbyte 8y ago
  "The CIA" - is made up of people. Who are the specific people that came up with this idea, pitched it, agreed to it, and executed it? Names are needed.