Quick Glance: TB vaccine candidate in final trial, raising hopes of saving millions
- Efforts to end the tuberculosis pandemic may get a boost as a promising vaccine candidate secures funding for Phase III trials.
- The M72 vaccine could be the first new tuberculosis vaccine in a century if successful in the next trials and approved by regulators.
- Tuberculosis infected over 10 million people in 2021, mainly in low- and middle-income countries.
- Proof-of-concept trials showed that the M72 vaccine could prevent pulmonary disease in 54 percent of TB-infected adults.
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Quick Glance: During the Monkeypox outbreak, the WHO advises gay and bisexual males to limit their sexual partners.
The Drugs Controller General of India (#DCGI ) approved India's first Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus vaccine (qHPV) against #cervical cancer
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The #NTAGI panel also reviewed data on Covaxin and Corbevax vaccines for the 6-12 age group. #COVIDVaccination #CoronaVaccine
India’s drugs regulator has approved #Corbevax as the first mix-and-match #BoosterDose for adults, the company said in a statement
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