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. …
New Delhi: A vaccine against typhoid, that not only protected those vaccinated but also people around them, has passed the test in India. The inexpensive vaccine against typhoid fever offers protection across age groups, particularly in pre-school-age children. A study conducted in the slums of Kolkata has also shown that …
As many as 30,000 children were administered anti-polio drops in rural areas of Islamabad on the first day of national anti-polio drive on Monday. Health Department officials said around 88,955 children will be administered anti-polio drops in rural areas of Islamabad during this three-day drive. Islamabad District Health Officer Dr …
Over 90L Children Will Be Administered Jab Between 2009-11 Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: A single shot will soon protect children against five diseases. The health ministry will soon take the proposal to introduce a pentavalent vaccine (5X1) in its national immunization programme to the Cabinet for final approval. …
The closure of all the three government-run vaccine manufacturing units in the country in January 2008 has had a major implication on the immunisation programme of the country in 2008-2009. Not only has there been a shortfall of vaccine, the government target achieved has been far less than what was …
India is reeling from a debilitating shortage of vaccines, which has severely affected the universal immunization programme reveals the latest report in Down To Earth (DTE). Is based on response to an RTI application filed by DTE that revealed how a plan to promote private vaccine makers boomeranged. See Also …
Down To Earth filed an RTI application to find out the reason of vaccine shortage in India. The response revealed how a plan to promote private vaccine makers boomeranged. The health ministry was forced to get vaccines illegally from the very public sector manufacturers it suspended last year Shuvam Kumar …
cyrus s poonawalla, chairperson and managing director of Serum Institute of India Ltd, a private vaccine manufacturer, says the vaccine shortage is a mess the government created. Edited excerpts: On self-sufficiency: Except for polio vaccine, we can provide all vaccines required for the Universal Immunization Programme. Whatever orders were placed …
Strengthen public sector The lack of foresight shown by former health minister Anbumani Ramadoss in shutting the public sector without first ensuring alternatives and lack of transparency have put a generation of children at risk. Clearly, the private sector
LUCKNOW: The crippling polio virus has inched closer to elimination in Uttar Pradesh. The fact was celebrated by the 20th India Expert Advisory Group (IEAG) meeting held last week. Key messages circulated during the meeting said that there was only one family of type-1 polio virus circulating in the endemic …
LUCKNOW: A five-arm clinical trial has been conducted in India to evaluate the residual immunity gap among children in western Uttar Pradesh and adapt future strategies in this regard. Conducted in several development blocks of Moradabad, the study is examining the immunogenecity of injectable and monovalent oral polio vaccines (IPV …
New Delhi: The long-pending proposal to introduce pentavalent vaccine in the National Immunisation Programme is likely to take off soon. The plan has already been cleared by the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) and will be put up before the Cabinet soon. The proposal hit the wall after former Union Health …
THE government may soon bring in a national policy on vaccines that will create a separate vaccine regulatory authority and also reserve the right to manufacture vaccines for the national immunisation programme with public sector undertakings (PSUs). The ministry of health and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) are …
Six years of worrying about bird flu did much to prepare the United States for the current swine flu outbreak, federal officials and an independent monitoring group said Thursday, but they cautioned that there were still gaps in planning. After the H5N1 avian flu emerged widely in Asia in 2003, …
