According to World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 4,000 people have died from H1N1 flu all over the world since the virus was first uncovered in April. It has already spread in most of the world. At the start, not a single country was prepared for swine flu. Neither medicines nor vaccinations were available for it. But later developed some countries started manufacturing antiviral drugs for their own countries. During August -September even developing countries India, Korea, Mexico and South Africa etc. made them selves prepared for swine flu as swine flu outbreak has peaked in such countries. But now days, H1N1 virus has started penetrating in poor countries like Istanbul, Zimbabwe and Mozambique etc.

United Nations officials stated on Sunday that since such poor countries are facing explosive swine flu outbreak, they need speedy assistance from developed countries. Developed countries can assist them by producing huge amount of drugs for them. They also need financial help to access vaccines.

Everyone knows that developed countries already decided to donate part of their stockpile of antiviral drugs to such needy countries. But the fact is that poor countries are facing lack of adequate medical facilities, drugs, personnel, diagnosis and treatment. Also they are continuously suffering by poor nutrition and other diseases like AIDS, TB and Malaria etc. Thus WHO feared that this disease could spread quickly in such countries.

Considering above fact, UN officials said that to ensure that adequate vaccines reach health workers in poor countries in time to help them before the next waves of the pandemic reach them is going to be great challenge.