Immunisation

Global hepatitis report 2024: action for access in low- and middle-income countries

The number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis infections is increasing and already accounts for 3,500 deaths daily, according to this report by the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the first consolidated WHO report on viral hepatitis epidemiology, service coverage and product access, with improved data for action. …

WB approves $24m for fight against polio

The World Bank's Board of Directors has approved a $24 million second additional financing for the Third Partnership for Polio Eradication Project (TPPEP) to support Pakistan government’s efforts to immunise about 34.8 million children against polio, with the goal of eradicating the disease from the country. In 1988, when the …

Fatigue and fear with shifting polio eradication strategies in India: A study of social resistance to vaccination

Shifting polio eradication strategies may have generated fear and “resistance” to the eradication program in Aligarh, India during the summer of 2009. Participant observation and formal interviews with 107 people from May to August 2009 indicated that the intensified frequency of vaccination was correlated with patients' doubt in the efficacy …

India to export ‘expert’ polio lessons to Nigeria

India’s lessons that finally led to eradicating crippling polio reached Nigeria after it sought India’s expertise recently in combating the virus. While India was taken off polio endemic list this year after it did not report any polio case, Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan have remained to be few countries that …

Scientists claim breakthrough on first vaccine against dengue

New Delhi: The world’s first effective vaccine against dengue could be available by 2015. Scientists on Tuesday announced a major dengue vaccine breakthrough, with a candidate vaccine showing a 60%-90% protection rate against three virus strains (DENV 1, 3 and 4) that causes the mosquito-borne disease. The vaccine CYD-TDV was …

Social mobilization: lessons from the Core Group Polio Project in Angola, Ethiopia, and India

The CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) and its partners in India, Angola, and Ethiopia have led successful social mobilization efforts to reach difficult-to-access populations critical for polio eradication. These include extremely poor rural and urban communities, ethnic and religious minorities who resist immunizing their children, and others such as newborns, …

Drop shots

How the battle that won India’s war against polio was fought in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh A Friday evening. A muezzin in Pakbada, a densely populated village in Moradabad district in Uttar Pradesh, summons the faithful for prayers. He ends his call by reminding them that the next Sunday is Polio …

Reducing maternal deaths by resolving major causes of mortality

Obstetricians and healthcare workers must pull out all stops in bringing down pregnancy related deaths was the primary objective of the maternal and perinatal health workshop sponsored by Asia Oceania Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and annual conference of Tiruchi Obstetrics and Gynaecological Society (TRIOGS) that concluded here on Sunday. …

Health check-UP

Digital health-mapping service to be extended to all districts. If everything goes well, Uttar Pradesh can soon boast a state-wide digital health-mapping facility. Once implemented, the service will provide people access to information about essential medicines and vaccines at their doorsteps—through automated voice alerts, SMS and phone calls. The service, …

Polio campaign troubles imperil 350,000 children

Govt on Monday postponed a polio immunisation campaign in parts of its tribal belt, jeopardising the health of more than 350,000 children after the Taliban banned inoculations. Local Taliban and warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur, whose followers are fighting Western troops in Afghanistan, banned the vaccinations in the north-western region of …

UNICEF initiative for improving child health

Seminar for health care providers today The UNICEF in association with the Amala Institute of Medical Science will implement a model community action programme at Adattu panchayat in the district to improve child health. Millions of children die from preventable causes before reaching their fifth birthday, many of them during …

Hib vaccine awaits State nod

The Centre is set to include Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type B) vaccine in its routine immunisation programme in six States from October this year even as it awaits expression of interest from Odisha on the front.The vaccine would be launched in pentavalent form combining vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP) …

India faces ‘polio threat’ from Pakistan, Afghan

In further evidence that confirms India’s fear of importing polio virus from neighbouring countries, a recent study has revealed that a major chunk of children below three years in Pakistan and Afghanistan are not receiving the oral polio vaccine. According to the study published in Lancet, experts found a sharp …

Taliban say no to polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan

Islamabad: In another setback to Pakistan's efforts to eradicate polio, the Taliban has banned a vaccination campaign in the restive South Waziristan region till the US halts its drone strikes in the tribal belt, a bizarre diktat that will affect 80,000 children. A pamphlet distributed by the Mullah Nazir faction …

Over 15% children left out of full immunization

JAIPUR: The medical, health and family welfare department managed to achieve only 85.09% of target set for full immunization of infants against various diseases in the financial year 2011-12. The latest figures released by the health department shows that nine districts have failed to touch even 80% of the set …

B’desh launches drive to immunise 41mn kids

The Bangladesh prime minister on Saturday launched a countrywide immunisation campaign to cover 41mn children. The children aged between 6 and 11 months will receive Vitamin A shot while children in the age group of one to five years will receive vitamin A shot. The children in the age group …

Gates Foundation may fund Pune institute

PUNE: To strengthen the war against polio, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation may tie up with the Pune-based Serum Institute to develop injectable polio vaccines. This was revealed by Serum Institute's Dr Cyrus Poonawalla after Microsoft founder Bill Gates visited his company's plant in Hadapsar near Pune on Thursday. …

Coverage of child immunisation and its determinants in India

For reducing morbidity, mortality and disabilities from the six serious but preventable diseases—that is, tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, poliomyelitis and measles—the government of India initiated Expanded Programme on Immunisation by making free vaccination services easily available to all eligible children. Despite considerable gains in immunisation coverage, a large chunk of …

Pakistan turns to India for fighting polio

A nine-member Pakistani delegation has arrived in India to learn from its experience of polio eradication. Pakistan saw a manifold rise in polio cases this year, and is one of the three countries, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, where the infectious viral disease is still prevalent. India became polio-free in …

Bigger chunk for health, water treatment & supply

For the first time in three years, Delhi government’s budget for the health sector shifted its focus from Public Private Partnership (PPP) to primary and allied medical services. The budget allocation for health was increased to 14.16 percent of the total outlay. From the current financial year, Delhi will roll …

Polio vaccine vial monitors may malfunction in peak summer

A study published in the current issue of Indian Journal of Medical Research, which found that vaccine vial monitors (VVMs) used for polio vaccine are prone to malfunction at temperatures of 45 degrees celsius or higher, could have serious consequences for pulse polio drive in northern and eastern states during …

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