CURRENT TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PHARMACY
Open Access
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue: 1

Vaccine diplomacy: Exploring the benefits of international collaboration

1Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi

2CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources, New Delhi

*Correspondence: prasanna@niscair.res.in

Online published on 27 May, 2021.

Abstract

Global health diplomacy has given birth to vaccine diplomacy and later it got linked with vaccine science diplomacy which itself an amalgamation of science diplomacy. Since India is leader in vaccine manufacturing, it contributes approximately 60% of vaccines to the global vaccine supply. According to the present scenario, India is harnessing the power of soft skill by offering COVID?19 vaccines to its immediate neighbors to leverage diplomacy. Vaccine diplomacy could serve humanity and suffering countries if significant collaborations and efforts by global entities are to be done on the multilateral level.

Keywords

Influenza, Vaccine, Pandemic, Antipoverty vaccine, Ascariasis and trichuriasis