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 […]
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On vaccines and their critical role
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 […]
Could India perform as well as Rwanda and save 70,000 women a year? @GAVISeth #HPV #HPVaccine @agnesbinagwaho
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 […]
Royal birth imminent after drop in value of the rupee — it must be linked #pentavalent #vaccines
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 […]