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 …
An article in the NY times by Seth Berkley talks about the new Ebola vaccine. According to interim results in the Lancet p, the rVSV-ZEBOV candidate vaccine is currently undergoing phase 3 trials – the final phase before vaccines can be licensed . It is safe in the short-term, but also highly effective at protecting …
It is only the second time in the history that a disease is being eliminated in India through immunisation after smallpox in May 1980. However, officially the World Health Organisation (WHO) will certify India as polio-free on February 11 after the last of random samples picked up have been be tested. India’s being declared polio-free …
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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 …
One of India’s great public health achievements of the last few years has been eradicating wild-type polio infections. Now, an article in the current PLoS Medicine is sure to ruffle feathers amongst those committed to global polio eradication by questioning whether polio can or should be eradicated by 2018. An independent expert board has concluded that …
India’s recent but already notorious Indian Parliamentary report on HPV vaccine trials is looking odder and odder. According to FIGO (the global professional body for obstetricians and gynaecologists), “a large-scale study in Sweden and Denmark has established that the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine does not carry a risk of serious adverse reactions.” The study from Karolinska followed a million …
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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 …
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