These leaders know their communities intimately, and their wives often hold informal but significant influence: they are ...

Abuja and Nasarawa, Nigeria – In the neighbourhood of Kado Lifecamp on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital, 29-year-old Eucharia Joseph grips a cooler box and sets out for her day. Inside are oral ...

Nigeria’s remarkable achievement in eliminating wild poliovirus in 2020 now hangs by a thread, threatened not by the virus ...

PESHAWAR: The incidence of violence against health workers during door-to-door polio campaigns has declined in Khyber ...

Female polio workers were beaten up and locked in classrooms by the staff in a private school in Gulberb during a vaccination campaign.The incident prompted Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz to order ...

Farooq has led efforts to eradicate poliovirus in Pakistan, with the country reporting 30 cases of the disease this year, ...

For over three decades, Pakistan has been at the forefront of one of the world’s most ambitious public health campaigns – the ...

ISLAMABAD: On World Polio Day, the First Lady of Pakistan, Bibi Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to ...

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Health auth­orities in Punjab on Monday launched a massive Extended-Age Fractional IPV Campaign, aiming to vaccinate up to 2 million children with an injectable polio vaccine as part ...

When Nigeria was certified free of wild poliovirus five years ago, it was a moment of pride not just for our country, but for the whole African region. I still remember that day vividly. After decades ...