The World Health Organisation (WHO) has granted pre-qualification status to children’s pneumonia vaccine, PCV-13, paving the way for procurement of the vaccine by UNICEF, govts and other
organisations for use in national immunisation programmes in Pakistan.
The pneumonia vaccine, which protects against 13 different disease-causing
strains is an advanced version of the original PCV-7 vaccine.
The vaccine protects against pneumococcal diseases like bacteremia (sepsis), pneumonia
(lung infection), meningitis (inflammation of meninges) and otitis media (middle-ear infections).
The popular 7-valent vaccine is now being replaced by its 13-valent version, providing broadest and most prevalent coverage against the pneumococcal diseases.
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