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Gates Foundation and India: ties cut or fake news at play?

March 1, 2017 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

Bill Gates waxwork. Copyright: annljy / 123RF Stock Photo

Ties between one of India’s largest immunization programs and the Gates Foundation have been cut, media reports suggest. However, the Health Ministry dismisses such claims as “misleading.” “Shut the gate” on Gates The Economic Times reports that the Modi government has “shut the gate” on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as far as the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Government policy, National, News Tagged With: Bill Gates, Gates Foundation, immunization, pharma, WHO

On vaccines and their critical role

November 24, 2015 By Shikha Nayyar Leave a Comment

There was a compelling article on the critical role of vaccines by Prof. N K Arora in the dna India  two days ago. Prof. Arora is the Executive Director of the International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN) Trust. He writes that “research has long established that tools such as vaccines are a vital component of early […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: immunization, vaccines

Could India perform as well as Rwanda and save 70,000 women a year? @GAVISeth #HPV #HPVaccine @agnesbinagwaho

October 30, 2013 By Mark Chataway Leave a Comment

Dr Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer of the GAVI Alliance, asks “how is it that Rwanda, among the world’s poorest countries – and still recovering from a brutal civil war – is able to protect its teenage girls against cancer more effectively than the G-8 countries?”. The answer is that Rwanda has vaccinated 93 percent of its […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: cancer, immunization, vaccines

Royal birth imminent after drop in value of the rupee — it must be linked #pentavalent #vaccines

July 22, 2013 By Mark Chataway Leave a Comment

The Duchess of Cambridge is about to give birth in London. The felicitous news follows a sudden drop in the value of the Indian rupee against the US dollar. Are the two events related? Surely they must be, one followed the other. Can a connection be established? Not definitively but, who can say, maybe the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: immunization, vaccines

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