Thanks to the vaccine they have been able to eradicate diseases or prevent the development of certain pathologies in the population, with vaccines it has been possible to modify human health, are a breakthrough in medicine. Today the vaccine is vital and not getting vaccinated is an irrigation for the person himself and for those around him, of course we do not talk about common diseases, we refer to rubella, rotavirus, malaria or many others that are dangerous and especially for children.
How is it possible that once an effective vaccine has been developed against a disease that we have mentioned, it is not available to those who need it most? This is really a serious problem, despite the fact that there has been a notable increase of aid and means to put vaccines within reach of the needy population, it is not enough, it is not all necessary vaccines that arrive. If we begin to analyze some of the real reasons why a given vaccine does not reach the child population of a third world country, we will undoubtedly be outraged. The development of a vaccine is very expensive in every way, as indicated by professor and scientist Stanley Plotkin, the architect of the rubella vaccine, up to 680 million euros costs to develop a vaccine, in terms of the time spent on it , to get an idea Stanley Plotkin shows us the example of the rotavirus vaccine, it began to be developed in the 80s and until 2006 it did not begin to be marketed, no less than 26 years.
During all this time tests, studies and a great protocol are carried out that demonstrates the effectiveness of the vaccine before being commercialized.
A vaccine is not free, those who develop it do it to make it profitable, in fact something that the scientist says alerts us about it, for the pharmaceutical industry it is more profitable to sell drugs than vaccines, through the drugs they guarantee a very long-term consumption , but given the little use of vaccines they are not profitable.
For us it would be ethical and moral that the laboratories that develop a certain vaccine provide it at a cost price, especially if it is for the child population, getting rich at the expense of the suffering of millions of people is not something that honors their studies or discoveries. They already earn enough with the large amount of medicines that are distributed, if governments begin to put the necessary economic means to help the population of the third world, it is fair that the pharmaceutical industry also does, right ?. Health is not a business.
