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World Health Organization grants prequalification to Bharat Biotech’s rotavirus vaccine, ROTAVAC®

- Bharat Biotech today announced that the World Health Organization (WHO Geneva) has awarded prequalification to the ...

Bio Farma target its revenue worth Rp3 trillion in 2017

State-owned vaccine producer Bio Farma has targeted its revenues in 2017 to be around Rp3 trillion, with vaccine ...

Suicide bomber kills at least 63 at Pakistan hospital

A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 63 people and wounded dozens more in an attack on mourners gathered at a ...

Health minister launches polio vaccines program

The Minister of Health, Nila F. Moeloek, has launched the Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) for primary immunization of ...

Circulation of fake vaccines constitutes crime against humanity

The circulation of fake vaccines should not recur in Indonesia as it constitutes crime against humanity. The ...

Police arrests five suspects for spurious vaccines

The National Police has arrested five persons suspected of manufacturing and distributing spurious vaccines for ...

Many Batam parents refuse polio vaccine for their children

Many parents in the industrialized island of Batam have refused to get their children under the age of five vaccinated ...

Bio Farma Continues Presidency of the Developing Country Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN)

Mahendra Suhardono, Marketing Director of Bio Farma, has been re-elected as DCVMN President for 2014 - 2016 at the ...

Gates Foundation Commits $50 Million to Support Emergency Response to Ebola

- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that it will commit $50 million to support the scale up of ...

Polio-like illness seen in up to 25 California children

A rare and mysterious polio-like illness may have afflicted up to 25 children in California, several of whom have ...

Leaders in Fight Against Typhoid Express Hope in Light of New Vaccines

- The Coalition against Typhoid (CaT), an initiative of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, will convene scientists, ...

Global Leaders Support New Six-Year Plan to Deliver a Polio-Free World by 2018

- Today, at the Global Vaccine Summit, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) presented a comprehensive ...

First Global Vaccine Summit Highlights Remarkable Progress Towards Vaccinating Every Child

- More than 300 global leaders, health and development experts, vaccinators, celebrities, philanthropists, and business ...

International Conference to Present Progress on Typhoid Fever Control and Prevention

- International and regional health experts will convene in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 1-2 March 2013 to review progress on ...

Bill Gates Emphasizes Power of Goals and Measurement as Keys to Tackling Extreme Poverty

- In his fifth annual letter (http://billsletter.org ), Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates ...