Mar 25, 2020 | News, Progress Updates
Dear Colleagues, It’s been an exciting few months for rotavirus vaccines, with India completing national scale-up and several other large, high-burden countries—like DRC, Benin, and Myanmar—introducing rotavirus vaccine. The evidence base describing the burden...
Mar 19, 2019 | News, Progress Updates
Dear Colleagues, Infants in nearly 100 countries across the world now have access to rotavirus vaccines and an estimated 54 million are vaccinated annually. There are now four globally available rotavirus vaccines, with several promising new products on the horizon....
Nov 1, 2018 | News, Progress Updates
Dear Colleagues, With the new prequalification of ROTASIIL, manufactured by Serum Institute of India, there are now four globally available rotavirus vaccines. Both ROTAVAC, prequalified in January 2018, and ROTASIIL provide different formulations and presentations...
Aug 22, 2018 | News, Progress Updates
Dear Colleagues, Next week is the International Rotavirus Symposium in Minsk, Belarus. There will be much to digest and discuss. Since the 2016 Symposium in Australia, dozens of new publications and reviews have described how rotavirus vaccines are saving lives and...
May 24, 2018 | News, Progress Updates
Dear Colleagues, Three country’s concurrent rollouts of rotavirus vaccine are ensuring access for tens of millions of children across a 3,000 kilometer-wide swath of South Asia, from Afghanistan and Pakistan, both of which administer the vaccine in all...
Mar 7, 2018 | News, Progress Updates
Dear Colleagues, Since our last Progress Update, Bharat Biotech’s oral ROTAVAC vaccine received prequalification. This is tremendous news, especially since Bharat has made the vaccine, now used in nine Indian states, available at US$1/dose for low-income...