Pentavalent and other New Combination Vaccines: Solutions in Search of Problems
Published By: mfc on eSS | Published Date: January, 05 , 2011The pentavalent vaccine and many other combination vaccines waiting to enter Universal
immunization Programme (UIP) have brought into sharp focus the gaping gap between
lofty slogans of ‘evidence based medicine’ and the actual dynamics that drive policy on
the ground1-4. Notwithstanding the theatrics of the ‘experts’ of the World Health
Organization (WHO) and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)
globally and National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) here in
India, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the pentavalent vaccine, like many other
recent combination vaccines, is a solution searching for problems.
Author(s): Y Madhavi, N Raghuram | Posted on: Jan 05, 2011 | Views(1592) | Download (1358)