Thursday, May 13, 2010

All Vaccines to come under DPCO- Draft Vaccine Policy India

The government of India has drafted a comprehensive national vaccine policy that proposes to bring all types of vaccines under the Drugs Price Control Order (DPCO) and targets at enabling rational and evidence-based decisions for the development, entry, production, stable supply, pricing, promotion and use of appropriate vaccines on scientific grounds.

According to the draft national vaccine policy, the public sector would be the sole manufacturer of key vaccines so that stable and affordable supply of vaccines for the national immunization programme can be ensured. This will also be helpful in managing national health security and biosecurity concerns. Therefore, all essential vaccines covered under UIP (TT, DT, DTP, BCG, polio, measles) would continue to be produced by....read more

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