ISLAMABAD: Health representatives from across the country agreed on Thursday to include two doses of rotavirus vaccine in the routine immunisation programme of the country...
As consensus has been reached to get the vaccine, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi) will be requested in May to arrange the vaccine...
ISLAMABAD: A representatives delegation of international health agencies, which is visiting Pakistan these days, has assured authorities here that it will arrange funding to make rotavirus vaccine part of the routine immunisation programme in the country...
Rotavirus is the most common cause of diarrhoea and vomiting among infants and young children of the country...
ISLAMABAD: The Expanded Programme of Immunisation (EPI) has decided to administer a vaccine for Rotavirus, the most common cause of diarrhoea and vomiting in infants, in the routine immunisation from the first week of November...
The vaccine will be administered in Punjab in the first phase and will be included in routine immunisation across the country in the first quarter of 2017...
KARACHI: The Enhanced Programme on Immunisation (EPI) in Sindh on Friday included the rotavirus vaccine in its routine immunisation schedule, officials said...
A programme was organised at the EPI office where provincial health secretary Fazlullah Pechuho administered the vaccine to children and made formal announcement to include the vaccine in the EPI programme...
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the international community to make available a universally low-cost vaccine to stop the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus...
In its Fiscal Monitor report for 2020, the IMF underlined the need for “global coordination for a universally low-cost vaccine and to support countries with limited health capacity...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday formally launched an injectable polio vaccine, an important step to accelerate its polio eradication campaign as the authorities vowed to wipe out the disease by 2016...
More than four million children will benefit from the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which will be incorporated into the country's routine immunisation schedule and given to children alongside other jabs...
LAHORE: Professor of medicine at the King Edward Medical University, Dr Irshad Hussain, has called for introduction of vaccine in Pakistan to prevent diabetes since the prevalence of the disease has almost doubled in adults/children...
“Pakistan is facing a potential threat of diabetes outbreak, particularly in adults due to unhealthy lifestyle,” Prof Irshad told Dawn...
Pakistan urged Facebook to remove harmful polio-related content from the social networking site on Friday, saying it was jeopardising eradication initiatives and putting the lives of vaccinators at risk...
In recent months social media in the country has been inundated with fake news reports and videos — garnering thousands of views and shares in the last week alone — claiming numerous children have been killed by the polio vaccine......
China will supply a coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by a unit of the China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) to Pakistan as part of a trial agreement, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday...
State-owned Sinopharm is set to work with the University of Karachi on vaccine trials, according to the WSJ report, which said Pakistan will receive enough doses early in distribution to vaccinate about one-fifth of its...
Falling Covid-19 infection numbers in Pakistan will not affect a Phase 3 clinical trial for a potential vaccine being developed by China's CanSino Biologics , which is expected to begin this month, according to officials running the trial...
The Ad5-nCoV vaccine and placebo injections are due to be received next week...
ISLAMABAD: With six frontrunners in the race to develop a vaccine for Covid-19, Pakistan has begun efforts to build a system to provide a vaccine across the country...
“Though it is a fact that there is currently no vaccine available internationally, we need to develop a mechanism to ensure that a vaccine can reach every part of the country within a few days of becoming available on the market,” Health Services Academy Cice Chancellor...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has increased its funds allocated for purchasing Covid-19 vaccine to $250 million and signed non-disclosure agreements with various multinational companies...
Under the agreement, the recipient country will not make details of the vaccine public...
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s federal government seems least bothered about the protection of its 220 million population as it has made arrangements to procure just 1...
1 million coronavirus vaccine doses from a Chinese company and that too for frontline workers and vulnerable population...
The government has approved China’s CanSinoBio Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in Pakistan, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health Dr Faisal Sultan said on Friday...
“Yes, Correct,” Sultan texted Reuters after being asked to confirm that the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) had met and approved the vaccine...
CanSino Biologics Inc's (CanSinoBIO) Covid-19 vaccine showed 74...
In the global trials, the efficacy of the vaccine at preventing symptomatic cases was 65...