Oral polio vaccination conducted in Africa -- Ugandan kids die by 1000s
Several years ago Kihura Nkuba -- founder of Greater African Radio and president of the East African World Broadcasters Association, and director of the Pan-African Center for Strategic and International Studies -- began hearing from villagers who were being subjected to repeated forced live oral polio vaccinations despite reports of injuries and death among the children.
On his radio program he began to speak out and questioned the safety of giving the children - especially children with HIV - so many live oral polio vaccinations, rather than giving them the safer "killed" polio vaccine used in the U.S. and Canada.
Since that time, he tells me, he has been persecuted by the government, World Health Organization and UNICEF, and his radio station has been driven into bankruptcy. Kihura appeared at great personal and professional risk to tell his story.
Thursday, July 17, 2003
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