While many countries rely on their own regulatory systems for vaccine approvals, some countries with weak system depend on WHO's nod to a great extent for rolling out their national vaccination programmes.
Hyderabad: Biological E has said that its Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) has been pre-qualified by the World Health Organization (WHO), making the company one of two pre-qualified suppliers of TCV to the UN agencies. BE’s TCV is a single-dose injectable vaccine that can be administered to children from six months of age to adults up […]
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The deal gives China, the country where the virus first emerged, a prominent role in the global effort to share vaccines with less-developed countries.
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