Armenia as Lab Rat? Flu Vaccine Donation Includes Odd List of Obligations

00:13, April 14, 2015

Marine Martirosyan
Vahe Sarukhanyan

In a follow-up to our article regarding the donation of 60,000 seasonal influenza vaccines to Armenia from the U.S. based Task Force for Global Health, we will now take a look at the details of the memo of understanding between donor and recipient.

These details are interesting and raise a number of issues.

Hetq sent Armenia’s Ministry of Health questions regarding this document and the answers are also subject to scrutiny. In particular, we wanted to know the exact date when Minister of Health Armen Muradyan and Task Force Executive VP Thomas Rosenberger signed the memo. The ministry wrote back that the memo covered a one-time donation and was signed based on a government decision issued on October 30, 2014.  Read more... (1173 words)

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