By Aditi Tandon/TNS New Delhi, May 9 The government’s inquiry into linkages, if any, between the administration of HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) vaccine to seven adolescent tribal girls in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat last year and their deaths has found serious lapses in the conduct of the said trial by partners-foreign NGO PATH and the […]
A Shot of India: The Vaccine Market
By Seema Singh Big Pharma is looking for immunity from a fall in revenues as blockbuster drugs go off patent. They are finding it in Indian vaccine makers. The year was 2009. The company that was up for grabs was Shantha Biotech. And advances came from three big pharmaceutical companies. Eventually, France’s Sanofi-Aventis acquired the […]
Trial, and many errors
The Times of India Rema Nagarajan, TNN, Apr 23, 2011, 06.42am IST About 14,000 girls, aged between 10 and 14 years in the Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh were vaccinated with the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine as part of a study on the efficacy of the vaccine against cervical cancer last year. These girls […]
Villagers make polio campaign a tool to demand development
KANPUR: Though the government agencies are spending millions of rupees to fight polio, a couple of instances have surfaced where people had refused get polio drops administered to their children. In the first incident reported from Naglabhara village in Kannauj district, locals facing shortage of schools and proper roads boycotted the polio campaign on March […]
OPV cannot eradicate polio from India: do we need any further evidence?
Paul Y. Maharaja Agrasen Hospital, Paediatrics, Vidhyadhar Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302023, India. dryashpaul2003@yahoo.com Abstract: Polio eradication programme was launched in India in 1995, and polio eradication was expected to occur by 2000. Remarkable decline in polio incidence occurred, but, polio was not eradicated. Majority of polio cases are occurring in two states viz., Uttar Pradesh […]
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