A UN report reveals that India accounts for 6.4% of the world's zero-dose children in 2024, representing nearly half of South Asia's unvacc...

The Health Security Agency in Britain said on Friday that measles vaccination rates in parts of London have dropped so low that the capital...

Intensified Mission Indradhanush 3.0 will have two rounds starting from February 22 and March 22 and will be conducted in 250 pre-identifie...

The poor coverage of measles vaccination and later doses of basic vaccines like those for polio, diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus (DPT) ar...

The programme will focus on improving immunisation coverage in the districts and cities to ensure 90 per cent coverage for full immunisatio...

Health Minister J P Nadda said that since four new vaccination has been added to the immunisation programme, its name has to be changed.

"With the introduction of IPV and Pentavalent vaccine a child will be provided added protection against poliovirus and haemophilus influenz...

Under 'Mission Indradhanush', 75.5 lakh children have received vaccination while a total of 19.7 lakh children have been fully vaccinated.

Mission Indradhanush aims to cover by 2020 all such children, who are either unvaccinated or are partially vaccinated against seven vaccine...

The government has launched 'Mission Indradhanush' on 25 December 2014 which aims to cover all children who are either partially vaccinated...

Started in 1985, UIP has been playing a critical part in India’s quest to achieve health Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 by 2015.

An estimated 21.8 million infants worldwide missed out on basic vaccines in 2013 mostly in poor, low-resource countries, according to the W...

The campaign, which is to be launched by the Union Health Ministry, will have advertisements, jingles, workshops and a host of other activi...

Government will launch media campaign to educate masses on immunisation, ahead of implementing its ambitious health programme - 'Mission In...

Beside Thane, the six districts that have been identified for the programme from Maharashtra are Beed, Dhule, Hingoli, Jalgaon, Nanded and ...

"The full immunisation coverage is approximately 65 per cent in 2014," Nadda said, adding that the government was setting targets for child...

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