Vaccine units need booster shots

Health ministry orders them to resume production but offers no action plan

World immunisation week: mobile app to remind parents of vaccine schedule

WHO focus on delivering health information directly to people’s mobile phones and social media accounts to curb vaccine preventable deaths

Use sun to make ice

Solar refrigerator to help immunisation programmes

UP children to be vaccinated every month against polio

Polio vaccination strategy under scanner

COVID-19: Trump’s promise fuels anti-vaxx movement

Anti-vaccine theories inspire fear in the general population, undermining a coordinated effort to defeat the virus

Efforts to increase access to vaccines delayed

Developed countries question the move of developing countries to introduce amendments in the Global Vaccine Action Plan

Policy draft backs new, expensive vaccines

Health experts say they are not essential enough to be part of national immunisation programme

After Ebola, measles outbreak causes panic in Liberia

More than 800 children have been affected by the infectious disease

A vaccine for corrupt alliances

WHO, Unicef target to avoid 50 million vaccine-preventable infections this decade

UN and other agencies launch new programme that aims to ensure immunisation benefits are shared equitably by humanity

COVID-19 disruptions may have killed 228,000 children in South Asia, flags UNICEF report

Child mortality rose 15.4% in India, followed by Bangladesh (13%). Sri Lanka saw the sharpest increase in maternal deaths 

Accidents cause maximum deaths among young population, says WHO

Road accidents and non-communicable diseases emerge as major killers according to the World Health Statistics 2017 report

Policy draft backs new vaccines

Health experts say new vaccines not essential enough to be in the national programme

Weak shield

Chickenpox vaccine fails to work in most children

Debate rages on HIB vaccine

Bad faith?

The state of regulation

Techno tracks

Emerging scenarios, new dilemmas

No Need

Requirement doesn't drive immunisation

Off Beat

Tinkering, not marking the great leap

Government recalls measles vaccines

Bytes

Polio vaccines in India may be unsafe

Fresh cases of polio in Syria spark fears of global disease outbreak

Many people from Syria, who have fled West Asia to escape civil strife, may carry the disease to nations where they seek refuge

Pentavalent vaccine deaths prompt doctors, activists to appeal to health secretary

Five-in-one vaccine introduced in Haryana without evaluating what happened in Tamil Nadu, Kerala