Sanofi gets nod for new polio vaccine in India
To ensure that there is no interruption to the availability of IPV vaccines, the French firm has already obtained approvals for IMOVAX-Polio. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - April 5, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Sanofi gets nod for injectable Polio vaccine
The announcement comes a day after ET reported that the company had ceased production of its ShanIPV vaccines in India, which may lead to a potential shortage in the country. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - April 4, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
There can't be shortage of Polio vaccine; Serum Institute can make it: CEO Adar Poonawalla
Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) is prepared to increase production of injectable poliomyelitis vaccine (IPV) to fill the gap left by France's Sanofi closing its manufacturing plants in India. SII currently supplies half of the 20 million IPV doses to the government's immunization program and can provide additional doses with a 3-4 month notice. Adar Poonawalla, SII CEO, stated that supplying IPV to the government at current prices is unviable for most companies, but SII continues to do so as a service to the nation. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Polio vaccine shortage looms over India with Sanofi plants' shutdown
An impending crisis looms over India's supply of injectable poliomyelitis vaccine (IPV) as French drugmaker Sanofi has shut down its manufacturing plants in the country, halting production of its IPV brand ShanIPV in December 2023. Sanofi's closure has raised concerns about disruptions in India's polio eradication efforts, as it catered to over 80% of the country's IPV dose requirements. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - April 3, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Bharat Biotech, Bilthoven Biologicals collaborate for oral polio vaccines production, supply
Bharat Biotech on Tuesday said it has collaborated with the Netherlands-based Bilthoven Biologicals B.V, a wholly-owned arm of Serum Institute of India, to strengthen production and supply security of oral polio vaccines. An agreement has been signed between the two partners under which Bharat Biotech will procure drug substances for the production of oral polio vaccines (OPVs) to be supplied within India and globally, the company said in a statement. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - April 2, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
WHO commends Iraq ’s world-first in polio transition
1 April 2024 – As of January 2024, Iraq has achieved the polio transition process in full. It is the first country among the polio transition priority countries to achieve this remarkable feat.
Polio transition involves repurposing polio assets – knowledge, network and infrastructure – to strengthen the broader public health functions of a country within the overall context of strengthening the national health system. These wider functions include immunization, vaccine-preventable diseases surveillance, and emergency preparedness and response.
To safeguard polio essential functions through sustainable resource...
Source: WHO EMRO News - April 1, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
Yemen conflict enters 10th year with over 17 million people in need of health aid
The country faces an alarmingly high malnutrition rate, with nearly 2.4 million children aged under 5 years suffering from stunting.
25 March 2024, Cairo, Egypt – The conflict in Yemen enters its 10th year today, with over half of the country’s population in desperate need of aid and an estimated 17.8 million people requiring health assistance, 50% of them children.
“It’s almost as if ongoing conflicts have become an accepted part of the everyday realities of life in the region. It’s important to step back and remember that hungry children, disease outbreaks, hospitals shutting down … these are not to be norm...
Source: WHO EMRO News - March 25, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
Paul Alexander, Polio Patient With Iron Lung and Positive Outlook, Dies at 78
DALLAS — Confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, Paul Alexander managed to train himself to breathe on his own for part of the day, earned a law degree, wrote a book about his life, built a big following on social media and inspired people around the globe with his positive outlook.
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Alexander died Monday at the age of 78 at a Dallas hospital, said Daniel Spinks, a longtime friend. He said Alexander had recently been hospitalized after being diagnosed with COVID-19 but he did not know the cause of death.
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Source: TIME: Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Stengle / AP Tags: Uncategorized News Desk overnight wire Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Surpasses 4 Million Polio Vaccination Target
[263Chat] The Ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC) in collaboration with UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), US Centre for Disease Control (USCDC) and other partners have surpassed the four million target for polio vaccination using the nOPV2 vaccine. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - March 13, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Polio Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Sudan to respond to new emergence of variant poliovirus in Red Sea State
A child is given the oral polio vaccine during a polio vaccination campaign, Sudan, November 2020. Photo credit: WHO/WHO Sudan11 March 2024, Port Sudan, Sudan – Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) will launch a polio vaccination campaign in April 2024 in response to a new emergence of variant poliovirus type 2 reported in January 2024. It was detected in six wastewater samples collected from September 2023 to January 2024 in the Port Sudan locality, Red Sea State.
The FMOH, with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), has completed field investigations and a risk assessment to determine the extent of t...
Source: WHO EMRO News - March 11, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
West Virginia Lawmakers OK Bill Drawing Back One of the Strictest Child Vaccination Laws
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s GOP-controlled state Legislature voted Saturday to allow some students who don’t attend traditional public schools to be exempt from state vaccination requirements that have long been held up as among the most strict in the country.
The bill was approved despite the objections of Republican Senate Health and Human Resources Chair Mike Maroney, a trained doctor, who called the bill “an embarrassment” and said he believed lawmakers were harming the state.
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Source: TIME: Health - March 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: LEAH WILLINGHAM / AP Tags: Uncategorized News Desk wire Source Type: news
Huge push to get kids vaccinated against illnesses like measles, polio and diphtheria as uptake rates plunge to decade low in wake of Covid
Fronted by children, the advert aims to appeal directly to parents and boost the numbers getting their children vaccinated with experts concerned about the risk illness falling jab uptake. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Govt Calls for Vaccination of Children As Polio Resurfaces
[263Chat] Zimbabwean health authorities have urged parents to vaccinate their children against polio. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - February 27, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Governance Health and Medicine Polio Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Mass Polio Vaccination Campaign Gets Off to a Smooth Start
[The Herald] Trust Freddy and Primrose Zimano-Herald Reporters (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 22, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Polio Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Government Rolls Out Polio Vaccination After Detecting Rare Mutation Cases
[New Zimbabwe] The Zimbabwean government on Tuesday rolled out a polio vaccination campaign following the recent confirmation of an outbreak in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 21, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Polio Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news
