India, Feb. 21 -- image credit- pib

Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda launched the indigenously developed Tetanus and Adult Diphtheria (TD) vaccine at the Central Research Institute (CRI), Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh.

In 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended countries transition fromthe tetanus toxoid (TT) vaccine to theTDvaccine. This recommendationwas reaffirmedin the WHO's Tetanus Vaccine Position Paper (2017) and in consultations with the Strategic Advisory Expert Group (SAGE) in 2002 and 2016.

With the formal launch of the TD vaccine,it has now been introduced for supply under the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP). He informed that the Central Research Institutewill provide 55 lakh dosesto UI...