Ms. Bachelot said June 30 that a new awareness campaign on hygiene will be organized in the fall .
The health minister was speaking before a Senate committee about the epidemic of influenza A. The campaign, defending handwashing and use disposable tissues, had "a double benefit: It has stopped the spread of the virus" and "very seriously reduced the number of gastro and bronchiolitis" Roselyne Bachelot said that "40% of French people have changed their behavior "after the campaign, organized at the beginning of the pandemic. "We must start again, because the mobilization exhausted," she said. Ms Bachelot was speaking before the Senate Committee investigation on the role of pharmaceutical companies in the government management of H1N1, "established at the initiative of the Communists and the Left Party. It was the last Committee hearing, chaired by François Autain (Left Party). The report of the Committee is scheduled for July 28. The minister also regretted the lack of European coordination in response to the epidemic. France, in this kind of situation, "not the right scale," she said before adding: "We went in a disorganized to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies, we paid the price, we can improve things. " Asked about the status of negotiations on the price payable on termination of contracts of sale of vaccines, she said that she did not "make a difference between laboratories. "GlaxoSmithKline, the only one with whom there is not yet agreement, was offered the same conditions as other laboratories (16% of the amount of canceled orders). She said he notified GSK, the laboratory from which was ordered more doses, conditions of termination, and that the British laboratory had until September to make an appeal.
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