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. …
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, …
MUMBAI: The BMC administered the polio vaccine to 7,35,000 children on Polio Sunday, covering 56% children under the age of 5 in the city. The turnout was markedly lower than the round in April which covered 68%. Civic officials attributed the low turnout to the holiday season and poor availability …
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem globally and its control is a daunting challenge in low-income country settings such as India. Our country contributes 20% of the global burden of new TB cases. TB in children remains a major public health concern, especially as severe forms of the …
TEZPUR: The ten-day massive vaccination programme to prevent the deadly Japanese encephalitis disease concluded in Sonitpur district on May 14 last. The vaccination programme was launched by the district Health and Family Welfare department in collaboration with the district administration from May 4 last. The ten-day vaccination programme in Sonitpur …
Two shots of measles vaccine given during childhood protect a person for life. Four shots of polio vaccine do the same. But flu shots must be taken every year. And even so, they provide less than complete protection. Old Ways A hurdle to faster flu vaccine production is that current …
