India’s 1st indigenous cervical cancer vaccine to be launched today; Serum Institute to manufacture vaccine
According to World Health Organisation’s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO), India records around 1.23 cases of cervical cancer annually and almost 67,000 women die everywhere.
The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) had given market authorization for the vaccine on 12 July. Source: SII/Twitter