New Delhi: India contributes to more than 50 per cent of the world's pneumonia deaths. Pneumonia is fast emerging as the next big challenge after polio for the country. During the World Immunisation Week, the question is whether pneumonia vaccines should be introduced in India's national immunisation programme. Pneumonia is a big challenge as 3,70,000 Indian children die due to the disease annually and 60,00,000 children are affected by it...
07:04 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: India has marked a significant milestone, with no new polio cases reported for one year. It's a result of a massive health programme,the routine pulse polio immunisation program. In the last few years India has mobilized 24 lakh volunteers and 1.5 lakh front line workers in an effort that's cost a 1000 crore rupees every year. "It's a big milestone - considering that there was a time when...
06:06 AM, Jan 13, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: As part of the Universal Immunisation Programme of the Indian government, Kerala will on Dec 14 introduce the pentavalent vaccine which provides protection to a child from five life-threatening diseases. The pentavalent vaccine will replace the current hepatitis B and DPT primary vaccines schedule in the immunisation programme. The vaccine provides protection from diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B and haemophilus influenza type B (HiB). This new vaccine is being...
05:06 PM, Dec 06, 2011
United Nations: UNICEF on Tuesday welcomed $4.3 billion raised from public and private donors at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) conference in London. International donors at the conference on Monday pledged $ 4.3 billion to vaccinate nearly 250 million children against life-threatening diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhoea. "The outcome of this pledging conference is exciting and tremendous news which will save millions of lives of the...
07:19 PM, Jun 14, 2011
London: Britain and Bill Gates on Monday joined hands to pledge more than $ 2.3 billion to vaccinate over 80 million children against preventable conditions such as pneumonia and diarrhoea in poor nations by 2015. British Prime Minister David Cameron told the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), a donors conference here, that the new funding arrangement would help "vaccinate more than 80 million children against diseases such as...
07:04 PM, Jun 13, 2011
Trenton: UNICEF is for the first time publicising what drugmakers charge it for vaccines, as the world's biggest buyer of lifesaving immunisations aims to spark price competition in the face of rising costs. UNICEF posted on its website the actual prices that it has paid individual drugmakers for 16 vaccines purchased over the last decade. It's a move that a few Western pharmaceutical companies don't support. Novartis AG and Merck...
07:38 AM, May 29, 2011
Most cases of medical negligence in India go unreported. ...
06:57 PM, Sep 15, 2009
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