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Dr. Naveen Thacker writes about a comprehensive approach for the prevention of diseases including access to new and available vaccines.

“While we should continue to be vigilant to ensure the safety of our children, it is equally important to move forward and embrace newer technologies in our health system that can help save lives.” Dr. Naveen Thacker,  president-elect of the Asia Pacific Paediatric Association has written an article in The Pioneer on the importance of …

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New challenge to #pentavalent #vaccines is more ideology than science

Activists this week asked the Supreme Court to stop the government of India from using pentavalent vaccines throughout the country. This, say, the activists is because there have been 21 deaths following the use of the five-in-one vaccines in Kerala and Tamil Nadu India’s pentavalent vaccine protects against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus, hepatitis B …

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5 kg grains can’t tackle the challenge of malnutrition #foodbill

In a report published by DNA yesterday, Ashok Gulati, chairman, Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices said that the top priority for the government should  be to bring down the food inflation in the market from 12% to 4%. He also said  that malnutrition could not  be solved by giving people food alone but that sanitation, …

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Damning Indian parliamentary report on #HPV vaccines. Is it a misunderstanding of race and “negroids”?

At the centre of a new report from India’s Parliament on HPV vaccines, seems to be a misunderstanding. The report looks at four countries which were running observational studies on the new vaccine and says, “… these four countries have different ethnic populations: India (Indo-Aryans, Dravidians, Tribals etc.),Uganda (Negroid), Peru (Hispanics) and Vietnam (Mongoloids). The …

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#Rotavirus vaccine would save 50,000 Indian children a year – maybe adults too

India has delayed introducing an anti-diarrhoea vaccine used in much of the industrialised world and in many developing countries. The delay is largely because India is developing its own version of the vaccine but, according to the WHO, each year of delay costs the lives of 50,000 Indian children. One in 242 Indian children will …

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Where India’s food bill fails the children

  A very interesting and well written article by Shailey Hingorani and Allison Hutchings in the Wall Stree Journal talks about India’s alarming malnutrition problem and how the National Food Security Bill has failed in some ways to solve this. They highlight some key issues with the Bill. According to the article, India’s Food Minister …

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