The vaccine market in India is approximately around $100 million.

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Vaccine Market http://www.indiainbusiness.nic.in/knowledgesociety/biotech.htmThe vaccine market in India is approximately around $100 million and growing at the rate of more than 20% per year. India produces many traditional vaccines but imports major ones such as Hepatitis A and B vaccines. The largest markets for vaccines in India exist for (in ascending order): Tetanus Toxoid, Polio, DPT, Typhoid & Hepatitis B (determined by million doses requirement of Vaccines in 1999-2000, www.biotechsupportindia.com). Major private sector pharmaceutical companies with vaccine business in

India are: Shanta Biotech, SmithKline Beecham, Hoechst Marion Roussel, Wyeth Lederle, Cadila healthcare, Wockhardt, Bharat Biotech, Panacea Biotech, Haffkine, etc. All these players are banking on a ten-fold increase in demand for vaccines when the government includes Hepatitis B vaccine in the expanded program of immunization. "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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