Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09CANBERRA884
2009-09-25 06:08:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Canberra
Cable title:
AUSTRALIA'S PANDEMIC VACCINE CONTRIBUTION
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UNCLAS CANBERRA 000884
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR IO/HS BLACKWOOD AND OES/IHB FANTOZZI
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KFLU AORC PREL AS
SUBJECT: AUSTRALIA'S PANDEMIC VACCINE CONTRIBUTION
REF: A. SECSTATE 97471
B. CANBERRA 880
UNCLAS CANBERRA 000884
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR IO/HS BLACKWOOD AND OES/IHB FANTOZZI
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KFLU AORC PREL AS
SUBJECT: AUSTRALIA'S PANDEMIC VACCINE CONTRIBUTION
REF: A. SECSTATE 97471
B. CANBERRA 880
1. (SBU) Australia is not planning on making H1N1 vaccine
available to developing countries in the region until
November at the earliest. Econoff spoke with Department of
Health and Ageing Assistant Secretary Simon Cotterell on
September 25 to get more details on Australia's pledge to
contribute H1N1 vaccine doses to the WHO effort to help
developing countries. Cotterell confirmed that Australia
will make available 10 percent of the planned 21 million
doses for Australian consumption, but wants to see them go to
regional neighbors in the Pacific. Health Minister Roxon is
adamant that no vaccine doses be sent outside Australia until
the domestic stockpile is sufficent to cover at a minimum
high-risk groups. Cotterell said that the first discussion
on this pledge with the WHO had been "annoying" as the WHO
has initially balked at reserving Australia's contribution
for use in Indonesia, PNG, and the Pacific Islands. The GOA
expects cooler heads to prevail at WHO in future discussions
and is pressing forward with its regional planning.
Cotterell noted that AusAID is preparing an $840,000 program
with regional partners to prepare for effective vaccine
storage and provision in East Timor, PNG and the Solomons.
Current thinking is that the first vaccine doses for WHO use
will be shipped sometime in mid-November.
2. (SBU) Cotterell said he had been in contact with Samantha
Power at the National Security Council on this issue, but
that Australia was still working out details of how to
proceed and are only in the initial stages of planning on how
to deliver this contribution. No planning has been done on
formal coordination with other donors at this point.
CLUNE
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR IO/HS BLACKWOOD AND OES/IHB FANTOZZI
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KFLU AORC PREL AS
SUBJECT: AUSTRALIA'S PANDEMIC VACCINE CONTRIBUTION
REF: A. SECSTATE 97471
B. CANBERRA 880
1. (SBU) Australia is not planning on making H1N1 vaccine
available to developing countries in the region until
November at the earliest. Econoff spoke with Department of
Health and Ageing Assistant Secretary Simon Cotterell on
September 25 to get more details on Australia's pledge to
contribute H1N1 vaccine doses to the WHO effort to help
developing countries. Cotterell confirmed that Australia
will make available 10 percent of the planned 21 million
doses for Australian consumption, but wants to see them go to
regional neighbors in the Pacific. Health Minister Roxon is
adamant that no vaccine doses be sent outside Australia until
the domestic stockpile is sufficent to cover at a minimum
high-risk groups. Cotterell said that the first discussion
on this pledge with the WHO had been "annoying" as the WHO
has initially balked at reserving Australia's contribution
for use in Indonesia, PNG, and the Pacific Islands. The GOA
expects cooler heads to prevail at WHO in future discussions
and is pressing forward with its regional planning.
Cotterell noted that AusAID is preparing an $840,000 program
with regional partners to prepare for effective vaccine
storage and provision in East Timor, PNG and the Solomons.
Current thinking is that the first vaccine doses for WHO use
will be shipped sometime in mid-November.
2. (SBU) Cotterell said he had been in contact with Samantha
Power at the National Security Council on this issue, but
that Australia was still working out details of how to
proceed and are only in the initial stages of planning on how
to deliver this contribution. No planning has been done on
formal coordination with other donors at this point.
CLUNE