Searched for
INJECTABLE POLIO VACCINE
The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, imperfect vaccine, missteps aided its comebackThe global polio eradication program faces setbacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mismanagement, falsified records, and unqualified staff pl...
Sanofi gets nod for new polio vaccine in IndiaTo ensure that there is no interruption to the availability of IPV vaccines, the French firm has already obtained approvals for IMOVAX-Poli...
Sanofi gets nod for injectable Polio vaccineThe announcement comes a day after ET reported that the company had ceased production of its ShanIPV vaccines in India, which may lead to a...
Polio vaccine shortage looms over India with Sanofi plants' shutdownAn impending crisis looms over India's supply of injectable poliomyelitis vaccine (IPV) as French drugmaker Sanofi has shut down its manufa...
Nandan Nilekani on digital route to deliver Covid vaccine in India'2.6 billion doses of intramuscular vaccines in two years is an extraordinarily complex and sophisticated task and without digital orchestr...
Are companies bribing doctors to push vaccine combos?Paediatricians question these huge price increases with the addition of just one more vaccine.
President Ram Nath Kovind launches Pulse Polio programme for 2018Over 17 crore children below five years across the country will be given polio drops as part of the Government of India's drive.
Panacea Biotec partners Serum Institute for hexavalent vaccineThe vaccine is a combination of six antigens to protect against six dreaded diseases - Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Hepatitis B, Haemoph...
Serum Institute of India acquires Czech Republic's NanotherapeuticsSII, Pune is currently one of the largest manufacturers of MMR group of vaccines and Pentavalent group of vaccines in the world, present in...
After India, other South East Asian countries opting for fractional doses of IPV: WHOWHO said that India became the first country globally to introduce fractional doses of IPV in childhood immunisation programme in eight sta...
Government allays concerns on polio; says India remains polio-freeHealth Ministry said the detected polio virus strain, which was was found in a sewage sample collected near the Secunderabad railway statio...
Risk of importation of poliovirus still persists: WHO officialOn January 13, WHO South-East Asia Region completed five years without any case of wild poliovirus.
Sanofi Pasteur launches injectable inactivated polio vaccineSanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, today announced launch of ShanIPV, an injectable inactivated polio vaccine (IPV).
Injectable vaccine to prevent re-emergence of polio launchedHealth Minister JP Nadda said that though India was certified polio-free on March 27, 2014, the battle against polio is not over yet.
Government proposes to introduce IPV in its polio programmeIPV is to be given as an additional dose at 14th week along with DPT3 and Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV3), Health Minister JP Nadda said.
India offers Pakistan 'full cooperation' for polio eradicationAn official statement from the Health Ministry said the plan was originally conceived in Delhi in 1994 when Vardhan was the state's health ...
Injectable polio vaccine to be part of immunisation programmeAs against 17.8% of global population and 20 per cent of child birth, its share of newborn deaths was 28% and TB cases 25%.
Four new vaccines to be part of government's immunisation program, says PM Narendra ModiVaccines against rotavirus, rubella and polio (injectable) will collectively expedite India's progress on meeting the Millennium Developmen...
- GSK in 50:50 JV with Biological E for developing paediatric vaccine
The vaccine would enable fewer injections for children thereby improving compliance in immunisation schedules.
- Africa, Bangladesh better than India in immunisation: Bill Gates
India’s inability to stamp out polio has raised serious fears that the virus causing the crippling disease might never be eradicated.