Universal Immunization Programme Current Affairs, GK & News
India’s First Indigenous Vaccine against Pneumonia
The first Indian vaccine against Pneumonia has been developed by Serum Institute of India. The vaccine is to be made available to the domestic makers soon. Highlights India has access to pneumonia vaccines. However, the new locally developed vaccine is much cheaper than the other pneumonia vaccines such as NYSE:PFE produced by Pfizer and LSE:GSK ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: GAVI • Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations • PCV vaccine • Pneumonia • Serum Institute of India • UNICEF • Universal Immunization Programme
COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) and CoWin-20
The Government of India recently announced that people can self-register for COVID-19 vaccine through the new mobile application called Co-WIN. This was announced along with the recently issued Guidelines for COVID-19 Vaccination. What is Co-WIN? COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) is the digital platform for Covid-19 Vaccination Delivery programme, developed by the Indian Government. As ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: Co-WIN • cold chain infrastructure • COVID-19 • COVID-19 application • COVID-19 vaccine • eVIN • Universal Immunization Programme
Vaccine Derived Polio Virus: nCOP2 Vaccine added by WHO to Emergency Use Listing
The World Health Organisation has added a vaccine to its Emergency Use Listings. The vaccine added is the nCOP2 developed by Bio Farma of Indonesia. The vaccine has been developed to treat derived polio virus strain. This is being done in the backdrop of increasing cases of vaccine derived poliovirus between 2010 and 2019. Highlights ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2020
Category: International Current Affairs
Topics: Ebola Virus • emergency use listing • Oral Polio Vaccine • Universal Immunization Programme • vaccine derived polio virus • World Health Organization (WHO)
COVID-19 impact linked to national policy on BCG vaccination
A recent study linked the lowered impact of the coronavirus with the universal policies of BCG vaccination in some countries. BCG Vaccine BCG vaccine (Bacillus Calmette Guerin) is a commonly used vaccine that is administered to millions of children around the world. It contains live but weakened (attenuated) strains of bacteria that causes tuberculosis- Mycobacterium ..
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs • Reports & Indexes Current Affairs • Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: BCG vaccine • COVID-19 • Tuberculosis vaccines • Universal Immunization Programme
ROTAVAC Vaccine to be expand to entire country
Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has decided to expand Rotavirus vaccine to the entire country from September 2019. It will provide Rotavirus vaccine to every child across all 36 states/UTs by September, 2019. This decision was taken as per an ambitious plan of Health Ministry under the 100-days agenda of the newly elected ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2019
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Gagandeep Kang • National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization • ROTAVAC • ROTAVAC Vaccine • Rotavirus diarrhoea • Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare • Universal Immunization Programme • World Health Organisation