India, Aug. 4 -- image credit- freepik

A study led by Dr Pawan Kumar and Dr Kapil Singh from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India along with Dr Susmita Chatterjee from The George Institute for Global Health India, Dr Arindam Ray and Dr Amrita Kumari from The Gates Foundation, Dr Homero Hernandez from Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, and Dr Arup Deb Roy from John Snow India, has found that introducing the hexavalent (six-in-one) vaccine into India's Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) could improve the efficiency of the country's childhood immunisation programme.

The vaccine will reduce the number of injections that infants receive, ease the workload of frontline health workers, lower cold-chain requirements, and ...