Bharat Biotech on Tuesday said it has collaborated with the Netherlands-based Bilthoven Biologicals B.V, a wholly-owned arm of Serum Instit...

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $1.2 billion for the global eradication of polio, which is still cropping up in Pakistan and Af...

Polio terrified parents around the world for the first half of the 20th century. Affecting mainly children under five, it is often asymptom...

A statement from the Pakistan Prime Minister's Office said on Thursday that this is Gate's first-ever visit to Pakistan. The Pak premier's ...

In April 2016, after due recommendations from Global Polio Eradication Initiative, India decided to switch from the trivalent to bivalent v...

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, today announced launch of ShanIPV, an injectable inactivated polio vaccine (IPV).

Modi spoke about India's initiative to launch an exclusive satellite for the SAARC countries and said Myanmar will also benefit from it in ...

An official statement from the Health Ministry said the plan was originally conceived in Delhi in 1994 when Vardhan was the state's health ...

Many diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis are now more common than vaccine-preventable diseases.

Azad today said the six AIIMS-like institutes, set up in as many states, as part of government's efforts to ramp up medical infrastructure,...

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

The Pakistan government will eliminate terrorism, a "disease" that has inflicted society, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said.

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...

A significant fall in infant mortality rates, the longest polio-free period in the country, lowest decadal growth of population in 90 years...

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...