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Measles outbreaks, immunity gaps among children and adolescents concerning: WHOThe WHO South-East Asia Region has the highest childhood immunisation coverage globally, reaching 94 percent for DTP3 vaccine. Experts high...- Comprehensive health insurance: Navigating childhood illnesses, vaccination support, and kidney function careHealth insurance covers childhood illnesses and their treatments effectively. Vaccination support is a key preventive care strategy for fam...
- UN report lauds India’s sharp decline in child mortality ratesIndia leads in reducing child deaths. A UN report highlights India's success in improving child survival. Significant drops in under-five a...
- Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu warns Indian parents: ‘You are giving way too many vaccines’, links rise in autism to excess vaccinationZoho founder Sridhar Vembu suggests India gives too many infant vaccines, potentially causing a rise in autism. He cites a report linking c...
- Measles Outbreak in US: Texas reports first death in a decade as unvaccinated child diesA child in West Texas has died from measles, the first U.S. fatality from the virus since 2015. The outbreak, centred in the Mennonite comm...
- Measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico: Nearly 100 cases reported — How declining immunisation rates are to blameNearly 100 cases of measles have been reported across Texas and New Mexico. Measles was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000,...
- Panacea Biotec gets $20 million loan from US government for hexavalent vaccine capacity expansionPanacea Biotec has secured a $20 million long-term loan from the US International Development Finance Corporation to expand its hexavalent ...
- India is one of the countries with highest vaccine confidence: UNICEF reportUNICEF's global flagship report "The State of the World's Children 2023: For Every Child, Vaccination" emphasizes the significance of child...
- India makes progress in child vaccination against diarrhoea, pneumonia amid pandemic: ReportNew Delhi, India made significant progress in 2020 in ensuring children receive immunisation that provide protection against diarrhoea and ...
- India records greatest increase in number of children not receiving first dose of DTP-1 vaccine in 2020: UNData from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN children's agency UNICEF showed that 23 million children missed out on basic child...
- Second thoughts on Covishield gap? Let’s get in the first jabs firstEven in India, vaccine effectiveness studies from Chandigarh and Vellore have shown that a single or two doses of Covishield provide nearly...
- Global vaccine push to save 50 million lives by 2030: WHO"If we're to avoid multiple outbreaks of life-threatening diseases like measles, yellow fever and diphtheria, we must ensure routine vaccin...
- Those conspiring against me will bite the dust: PM Narendra ModiModi invoked Lord Shiva to hit out at opponents, saying the blessings of `Bhole Baba' had given him the strength to deal with those who had...
- 2016: A busy year for health ministryThe year also saw conduct of a single and uniform entrance examination for admissions to virtually all government and private medical colle...
- Health Ministry's own survey projects bleak pictureAll 15 States/Union Territories have rates below 51 deaths per 1,000 live births, although there is considerable variation among the States...
- Universal Immunisation Programme one of the largest world health projects : Nagaland minister P Longon"With the introduction of IPV and Pentavalent vaccine a child will be provided added protection against poliovirus and haemophilus influenz...
- Mission Indradhanush: Modi government's plan to ensure children may liveStarted in 1985, UIP has been playing a critical part in India’s quest to achieve health Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 by 2015.
- India reported 18,668 cases of measles in 2012WHO and other some scientific communities have blamed the anti-vaccine movement for the spiralling of measles cases in the US and EU.
- Build on Polio success to fight other diseasesMany diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis are now more common than vaccine-preventable diseases.
- In one clean sweep, sops go out to farmers, students, Bimaru statesThe Union Cabinet today took a number of decisions, each a poll gift to a specific segment of society. Apart from the reform of foreign inv...
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