Journal of Clinical Research & Bioethics

Sanjay Chaturvedi

Publications

• Commentary
  Reluctance to Advance the Age of Measles Immunisation: Ethics of Best Bargain, Policies of Denial, and Programs of Verticality
  Author(s): Sanjay ChaturvediSanjay Chaturvedi
  
  There is much expectation that the unprecedented social and political mobilization of polio initiative must be channelized to eliminate and eradicate measles. However, the fact file of measles in low and middle income countries (LMICs) raises several concerns. Measles surveillance in many of these countries is largely outbreakcentric and measles associated mortality is underestimated because several events are documented as pneumonia deaths even after verbal autopsies. Besides vaccine hesitancy, the social and cultural resistance against polio supplementary immunisation activities (SIAs) witnessed in certain pockets is likely to be higher in case of measles immunisation drives. The timing of measles containing vaccines (MCV1 and MCV2) in the immunisation schedules is also surrounded by some technical and ethical issues that we have been ignoring for decades. A small proportion of meas.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9627.1000216

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