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Sun Pharma Partners ICGEB to Develop Safer, Cheaper Dengue Vaccine
Drugmaker Sun PharmaBSE 0.01 % has partnered with International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) to develop a dengue vaccine which, it said, would be safer, effective and more affordable than the existing vaccine and other candidates being developed.
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WHO Seeks New Mechanism for Crisis Vaccine Supplies At Low Cost
The World Health Organization, drugmakers and humanitarian groups are hammering out details of a new vaccine supply system aimed at getting vital shots to vulnerable people in crises such as wars or natural disasters.
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UNICEF: Vaccine Price Drop Will Save Millions of Child Lives
The U.N. Children’s Fund reports a steep drop in the price of a crucial childhood vaccine will prevent millions of deaths in dozens of the world’s poorest countries.
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Weekly Roundup: $5 Beats Free, SunFunder Rises, and Asia’s Investors Love Impact
Why it's not crazy for a global health organization to refuse free vaccines, where the world's most socially conscious investors live, which major funder might be planning to alter some old investment restrictions, and what's needed to support the Sustainable Development Goals. That and more; it's all here in our Weekly Roundup.
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A ‘just-add-water’ kit to make instant drugs and vaccines could fix health care access in rural areas
A team of researchers at University of Toronto and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering are ... pioneering a technology that could allow people with minimal training to produce a broad range of medication, including diagnostic tools, vaccines, and drugs, anywhere in the world.
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Thanks but no thanks: Why MSF is rejecting donated vaccines from Pfizer
Medecins Sans Frontieres announced Tuesday it will reject an offer of free pneumonia vaccine from pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc, after the company declined to offer a more “sustainable and long-term” solution for acquiring the drug through discounted pricing, MSF officials told Devex.
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The ‘Just Add Water’ Chemistry Kit Can Create On-Demand Drugs and Vaccines
As humans explore the furthest edges of our own planet and others, the old ways of developing drugs won't work forever. Spending years creating a drug, testing it, manufacturing massive amounts of it, and then moving the temperature-sensitive medication over hundreds of miles is agonizingly cumbersome. When a community in a remote region is devastated by a Zika outbreak, slow and expensive solutions can cost lives. With the populations of the world’s least-developed countries projected to double by 2050, getting medication to remote areas is of growing interest to doctors and scientists.
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World’s First Dengue Vaccine Approved in Over 10 Countries
Sanofi-Pasteur, the vaccines global business unit of Sanofi, announced today that thedengue vaccines have received approval in 14 countries.
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