Children's Health Defense Donthi Narasimha Reddy, Ph.D., visiting senior fellow at the Impact and Policy Research Institute in India, called for an independent scientific review of the country’s 90-day campaign to give free HPV vaccines to an estimated 150 million teenage girls. Citing past issues with the vaccine, including seven deaths in a previous HPV vaccine trial, Reddy said screening for cervical cancer is safer and more effective than the vaccines.
India launched a national HPV vaccination campaign for teenage girls last week, sparking outcry on social media and a critical response from public health experts, including one who called for an independent review of the campaign.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off the campaign, which will target 150 million girls, on Feb. 28 in Ajmer, Rajasthan. For 90 days, government facilities across the country will offer a single dose of Merck’s Gardasil 4 vaccine, free of charge to 14-year-old girls.
After that, the facilities will provide the shots on routine vaccination days.
The Indian government is partnering with the Gates Foundation-backed Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which since 2023, has given the government hundreds of millions of dollars to add the HPV vaccine and the typhoid conjugate vaccine to India’s national immunization schedule.
The campaign launch comes 13 years after another Bill Gates-backed organization, the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), violated Indian laws to covertly test Gardasil and GSK’s Cervarix vaccine on 24,000 Indian girls ages 10 to 14.
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