A new polio vaccination campaign will begin Monday in Afghanistan’s Paktika province, aiming to protect children under five and ...

We only have two countries right now. It's Afghanistan and Pakistan that still have polio, and our mission is to go out and ...

Afghanistan confirmed a new polio case in Uruzgan province, raising the 2025 total to nine, as officials warn continued ...

Deepak Kapur, Chairman, Rotary International’s India National PolioPlus Committee (RI-INPPC) told a leading media outlet, ...

Despite being officially certified as polio-free in 2014, India remains at risk of polio reinfection due to vaccine-derived ...

KABUL, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Local authorities have reported the detection of a new case of polio in the southern Afghanistan Uruzgan province, spokesman for the provincial government Samiullah Akrama ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- For nearly four decades, the World Health Organization and partners have been trying to rid the world of polio, a paralytic disease that has existed since prehistoric times.

As per Khaama News, the polio campaign began in Afghanistan's eastern provinces of Nuristan, Kunar, and Laghman, targeting children under five with injectable and oral doses.

Now is the time to pull through on efforts to rid the world of polio once and for all, UNICEF argues in a new call to action.

Thirty-five years ago, polio, a highly infectious viral disease, paralysed around 350,000 children per year. Following a ...

Eradicating polio is still possible despite significant funding cuts, global health officials said on Tuesday as they ...