No laxity has been reported in the polio eradication program after India was declared 'polio free' and the government has taken cognisance.

India runs a high risk of importing polio from its key neighbours Afghanistan and Pakistan which have a high polio burden, the government t...

A similar technical support was also committed to Afghanistan for supporting polio eradication programme, besides providing micro level pla...

The last new case of polio in India was reported three years ago and the country can now be declared polio-free.

Global superstar and UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador for Polio eradication for almost a decade, Amitabh is delighted with the news.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has described India's accomplishment in eradicating polio as the "most impressive global health success" he h...

Earlier this year, WHO had removed India from the list of polio-endemic countries. If no fresh case is reported till 2014, the country will...

To make the vaccine easily available, Panacea Biotec is partnering Emzor pharma which has a strong footprint across Nigeria.

A leading Indian pharmaceutical company has launched a polio vaccine, POLPROTEC in Nigeria to help combat the spread of polio in Africa's t...

Pakistan, reported over 190 cases last year, and also exported the crippling virus to China that was polio-free for 20 years.

According to UNICEF, only one case of polio was reported in India this year, as against 41 cases last year. In 2009, there were 741 cases.

India has not reported a single polio case in over 200 days. The country's only polio case reported this year was on January 13 from West B...

India could see zero transmission of the crippling polio virus in the next two years, according to business magnate turned philanthropist B...

India’s inability to stamp out polio has raised serious fears that the virus causing the crippling disease might never be eradicated.

The international community, led by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today pledged over USD 630 million to fight polio in India over t...

Bill Gates met Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss and discussed the polio eradication programme in the country for which his foundatio...

Joining the campaign for polio eradication in the country, Indian cricket team contributed to UNICEF's Bowl Out Polio campaign by presentin...