PM Modi said India has developed its own vaccine for cervical cancer and is ready to share its expertise providing HPV sampling kits, detection kits, and cervical cancer vaccines worth $7.5 million. He said India will also cooperate with other Quad members in radiotherapy treatment.
India's Serum Institute and Oxford University have launched the first malaria vaccine in Ivory Coast, Africa, marking a significant milestone in combating the deadly disease. This collaborative effort aims to save millions of lives in malaria-endemic regions.
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Bill Gates exuded confidence about India's growth prospects in the future and said the country has strongly improved in several key areas. He also lauded political competition in India which is providing better amenities to people, while assuring support to the country's efforts in AI.
The Karnataka Health Department has directed the government hospitals to provide Anti-Rabies Vaccine free of cost to all animal bite victims. Rabies was declared as a Notifiable Disease in the state from December 5, 2022.
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National Vaccination Day 2023: India is currently working towards getting rid of measles and rubella by vaccinating over 324 million children through MR vaccination drives.
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Covid-19 vaccines in India: The data showed that 82 per cent of adolescents aged 15 to 18 years have also been vaccinated with the first dose since the vaccination for this age group began on January 3 while 68 per cent have got both the first and second dose.
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Vaccines for smallpox, a related disease, are thought to be about 85% effective against monkeypox. WHO’s Europe director, Dr. Hans Kluge, said Wednesday he was concerned by the scramble by some rich countries to buy more vaccines without talk of buying supplies for Africa.
The people of the age group 15-18 years have been provided with 5,83,09,299 1st dose and 4,18,99,185 2nd dose of the coronavirus vaccine, said the ministry.
As per the ministry, in the age group 15-18 years, 5,78,45,181 1st dose and 4,03,05,973 2nd dose have been administered.
The yet-to-be peer-reviewed findings, recently posted on the preprint repository BioRxiv, show that the BA.2 sub-variant may have features that make it as capable of causing serious illness as older coronavirus variants. the World Health Organization (WHO) said while BA.2 is more transmissible than BA.1, the subvariant is not more severe.
As per health ministry, with the administration of 41,54,476 vaccine doses in last 24 hours, India's COVID vaccination coverage reached 1,73,86,81,675 doses, as per provisional reports on Feb 16.
Indian Council of Medical Research Director General, Dr Balram Bhargava, said that this is another vaccine which really establishes that India is heading towards becoming a vaccine superpower.
However, according to sources, discussions are underway in technical groups and in the Health Ministry's immunisation division about expanding the scope of the precaution doses which are currently being given to healthcare and frontline workers, and comorbid senior citizens.
The research, published in the journal Nature on Jan 31, demonstrated that the vaccines induce this protection through cellular immunity or the production of protective immune cells, such as so-called killer and memory cells.
The study, which is a collaboration between the UNC-Chapel Hill and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, examined data on COVID-19 vaccination history and health outcomes for 10.6 million North Carolina residents between December 2020 and September 2021. The study results were used by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention to support the use of booster shots.
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