U.N. News Centre: U.N. agency hails new polio vaccination regimen in South-East Asia that curbs impact on global supply
“Amid a global shortage of injectable inactivated polio vaccines (IPV), a new inoculation regimen, employed by governments in the South-East Asian region, involving two fractional vaccine doses — each about a fifth of a full dose — provides the same level of protection against all polioviruses as does one full dose, the United Nations health agency said [Thursday]. According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Office for South-East Asia, the evidence-based intervention ensures continued protection of children against the virus and also helps save vaccine…” (1/12).