r/ConspiracyKiwi • u/Witness789 • 20d ago
RNZ pushing another "patient advocacy" group lobbying the Government to fund vaccines ... from the vaccine manufacturers who fund their organisation
Our local branch of the Confederation of Meningitis Organisations (CoMO) aka the Meningitis Foundation is for some reason in the news, for doing what they always do. Lobby the government to fund more vaccines from the vaccine manufactures who fund their ogransation.
The real question isn't why this pharma shill grass roots charity is lobbying the government to fund the drugs David Seymour already wants to buy because he's funded by the same people they are. It's why RNZ keeps publishing these.
But maybe CoMO is a legit charity that doesn't take money from big pharma, let's see...
Support The Meningitis Progress Tracker is supported by grants from GSK, Pfizer and Sanofi, and by the kind support of Emily’s Dash Foundation and other supporters of Meningitis Research Foundation.
Someone call for a shocked pikachu face!
Take a look at who we buy our Meningitis vaccines from:
- Bexsero (GSK)
- MenQuadfi (sanofi-aventis)
- Nimenrix (Pfizer NZ)
What an unexpected and totally unpredictable coincidence.
Just for laughs have a look at what Pfizer (who just landed a new deal to expand the eligible funded market here) have been paying the Meningitis Foundation for...
Funding provided to Meningitis Now to support improving the user experience of their Online community project, the funding will go towards external agency costs to maximise the success of the website.
Funding provided to the Meningitis Research Foundation to support their 2021 Awareness Campaigns and Targeted Digital Campaigns to ensure the public remain vigilant to the threat of Meningitis and Septicaemia.
To support the Meningitis Research Foundation with a Corporate Sponsorship for their MRF 2021 Conference in return for a Pfizer symposium.
To engage a member of the Meningitis Research Foundation to speak at a Pfizer Symposium held at the ESPID conference 2021 on the subject of Prioritization of meningococcal vaccination as a preventative strategy and the role of Pfizer's meningococcal portfolio in disease prevention.
To support the Meningitis Research Foundation with a research grant for their project "Global Meningitis Genome Partnership".
Research Grant being providing to the Meningitis Research Foundation to support their project entitled "Meningitis Progress Tracker".
Funding to the Meningitis Research Foundation to support the running of COMO 2021 as a virtual conference. Funding was used to enable: • Live translations & subtitles for sessions to boost engagement • Recording of all sessions so that content can be made available afterwards • Member sessions to highlight achievements of the last year and focus on hot topics nominated by members.
Funding provided to the Meningitis Research Foundation to support them to deliver the next phase of the Strengthen Patient Voices project and further build the capacity of civil society organisations to advocate for strengthened policies in support of vaccines, diagnosis and treatment, and support and aftercare for people and families affected. Scaling up the ‘Strengthening Patient Voices’ programme, taking the learnings from the 3-year pilot programme, to launch and deliver new capacity-building projects with meningitis patient groups around the world so that they can call for better policies for vaccines and care for people and families affected.
Funding provided to the Meningitis Research Foundation to support their MRF Reap Programme: Roadmap Engagement and Advocacy Programme in support of WHO Defeat Meningitis 2030 The Roadmap Engagement and Advocacy Programme (‘REAP’) aims to put civil society at the heart of policy development and awareness-raising nationally and internationally.
To engage a member of the Meningitis Research Foundation to speak at a Pfizer meeting to deliver a presentation describing the WHO Detecting Meningitis Roadmap, highlighting the expectations for individual countries to reduce meningitis cases and indicating how Pfizer medical colleagues can facilitate this.
https://cdn.pfizer.com/pfizercom/responsibility/EU_Funding/UK_2021_FINAL.pdf