WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO) malaria expert Arata Kochi MD has warned that the Gates Foundation "was stifling debate on the best ways to treat and combat malaria, prioritizing only those methods that relied on new technology." Dr Kochi warned that the determination of the Gates Foundation to have its favored research used to guide policy ‘‘could have implicitly dangerous consequences on the policy-making process in world health.’’

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Dr Kochi's warnings regarding the Gates Foundation also apply to global cervical cancer prevention efforts.
 

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IN 1999, the Gates Foundation established the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention. Seattle-based PATH, a non-profit corporation, was the organizing partner of the Alliance. PATH receives half of its budget from the Gates Foundation and is considered an agent of the Gates Foundation, rather than an independent grantee. The cancer research branch of the WHO was also an Alliance partner organization. The self-serving yet incorrect founding assumption of the Alliance was that novel technology, rather than Pap screening, is the most likely solution for cervical cancer in lower-income countries.

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That unfortunate assumption has decimated political will for the moral imperative of Pap screening in lower-income countries.

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In 2002, the Alliance formally dismissed our suggestion that Pap screening be implemented in lower-income countries.

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FROM 1999 UNTIL 2009, the Alliance and the cancer research branch of the WHO conducted an experiment in Osmanabad, India. The Osmanabad experiment used premeditated, preventable death as the yardstick to compare the effect of Pap screening to the effect of no screening at all. That experimental design was every bit as absurd as using death as the yardstick to compare the effect of “No-Smoking” to the effect of smoking cigarettes.

The Osmanabad experiment has been condemned by public health experts and ethicists because physicians deliberately withheld cervical screening from women who subsequently died from cervical cancer. The US Office for Human Research Protections, which determined the Mumbai experiment was unethical, has no authority to investigate human research funded by the Gates Foundation. It is uncertain whether anyone has such authority.

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Shockingly, the Osmanabad experiment concluded that high-quality Pap screening does not prevent cervical cancer. That shocking conclusion is every bit as absurd as an experimental conclusion that “No Smoking” does not prevent lung cancer.

 

A subsequent re-analysis of the Osmanabad data set showed that scientific data may have been falsified to create the appearance that Pap screening did not prevent cervical cancer in India. Concerns have also been raised about financial partnerships among PATH, the Alliance, and HPV test manufacturers.

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However, because the WHO conducted the Osmanabad experiment, it is politically mandatory for the WHO to accept the experiment’s absurd scientific conclusion that Pap screening does not prevent cervical cancer.

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NIH PHYSICIAN Mark Schiffman praised the Alliance experiment without questioning the scientific plausibility of its conclusions or the ethics of the barbaric methods used to obtain them.

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The scientific absurdity that Pap screening does not prevent cervical cancer is politically expedient in several ways:

-        It increases the marketability of HPV tests and HPV vaccines. 

-        It provides an illusion of vindication for the incorrect founding assumption of the Alliance.

-        It provides an illusion of vindication for delaying the implementation of Pap screening throughout India for 18 years or more.

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As exemplified in the chilling video clip above, that absurd conclusion has also provided an illusion of ethical justification for deliberately withholding Pap screening from women who subsequently die from cervical cancer. 

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Because of the Gates Foundation, one of the world's big, fixable problems is being fixed far too slowly -- with catastrophic, lethal consequences -- while income is transferred from lower-income countries to PATH and to other corporations that market HPV tests and HPV vaccines.
 

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FURTHER HUMAN CATASTROPHE may be averted if Dr Schiffman formally acknowledges that Pap screening actually does prevent cervical cancer; that the results of the Osmanabad experiment were scientifically absurd; and that the methods used to obtain those results were unethical.

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Those acknowledgements will be important steps toward encouraging the WHO and other organizations to promote the moral imperative of Pap screening for lower-income countries.