Pakistani authorities confirmed a new poliovirus case in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, raising the national count to 13 in 2025. The affected child i...

The U.N. health agency and partners are launching a campaign to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children in Gaza against polio amid a devasta...

Attempts to eradicate the disease in Pakistan have been seriously hampered by the targeting of vaccination teams in recent years by militan...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said the risk of children getting vaccine derived polio...

Health Ministry said the detected polio virus strain, which was was found in a sewage sample collected near the Secunderabad railway statio...

Today is the third day of a three-day anti-polio campaign which was launched in Quetta and other districts of Balochistan on Monday.

Health Minister JP Nadda said that though India was certified polio-free on March 27, 2014, the battle against polio is not over yet.

Nawaz Sharif said his government has a firm resolve to eradicate polio from Pakistan, the worst affected country in the world.

Over 4,000 cases of refusal of polio vaccination have been recorded in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, officials said.

The target of the SIAD campaign, which had to be held in the high-risk union councils of 54 districts, was to vaccinate 8.5 million childre...

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Alleging that his claim is contrary to the records, the party said that Harsh Vardhan was Health Minister of Delhi prior to 1998.

Clerics from Uttar Pradesh have offered to spread awareness about the benefits of vaccination in Taliban affected areas in Pakistan.

World Health Organisation appreciated the successful implementation of health programmes, particularly anti-polio and immunisation campaign...

Ghulam Nabi Azad said the lessons learnt from success of polio campaign could help eliminate measles-related child deaths and neonatal teta...

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.

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