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Health activists in India, observers the states push for pentavalent vaccines with suspicion. They are more expensive and does not really provide the cost-to-be
by dbalan 13y ago
Health activists in India, observers the states push for pentavalent vaccines with suspicion. They are more expensive and does not really provide the cost-to-benefit.Also, experts are divided on the fact that there are 18 deaths reported on which state has confirmed 3 being caused by the vaccine.
EDIT: Context - gates pushes pentavalent vaccine being the exciting thing for next year.
[1] http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/centre-confirms-three-pentavalent-vaccine-deaths http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/centre-confirms-three-...
[2] http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/pentavalent-vaccine-caught-in-fresh-row/article5455511.ece http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/penta...
[3] http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/policy-draft-backs-new-expensive-vaccines http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/policy-draft-backs-new...
- icegreentea 13y agoUgh, it's seriously hard to read those articles. The writing is just off enough a bit to make it super jarring to read. In summary: 2 million doses delivered, 3 doses per child, 18 reported deaths (of which two apparently were in child who didn't take the vaccine at all). Depending on the sources, the actual number of deaths caused by the vaccine is 3 or up to 16. This is ontop of a base infant mortality rate of 12 deaths per 1000 infants per year. Also controversy over the actual need to vaccine Hep B and Hib (the two additional vaccines added to the original 3-combo vaccine), over spending their resources on other vaccines.