UNICEF is working with partners to administer polio vaccines in the Gaza Strip, protecting children from the lifelong crippling disease. Limited humanitarian pauses are enabling the campaign’s success ...

Polio is on the brink of eradication. Yet outbreaks keep happening, often when primary health services are disrupted or inaccessible, causing children to miss out on routine immunizations. Countries ...

A large-scale campaign to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children against polio in the Gaza Strip launched Sunday. The three-day campaign hopes to prevent an outbreak of the virus – which was ...

After six sewage samples taken in Gaza in late June tested positive for poliovirus, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that it was “just a matter of time” ...

The much-anticipated United Nations-led campaign to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza against polio began Sunday. While a first group of babies received polio vaccinations in Gaza on ...