The eradication of polio as a global health threat may face delays due to significant U.S. funding cuts, potentially resulting in more chil...

The latest victim, a 12-year-old girl from the Kili Malak Haqdad area of Darozai union council in Balochistan's Killa Abdullah district, su...

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

Pakistan is one of the two polio-endemic countries in the world along with its neighbour Afghanistan. The new case - a 21-month-old boy who...

However, they said, the main challenges lie in securing sufficiently high vaccine coverage and respond quickly enough to immune-escape vari...

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

On January 13, WHO South-East Asia Region completed five years without any case of wild poliovirus.

Pakistan may be declared a 'non- endemic country for polio virus' by next year, a UNICEF health official said today.

Lauding the efforts of volunteers and supervisors, Health Minister J P Nadda said that there has been no case of wild polio since January 1...

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

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.

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

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...

The World Bank on Friday approved two projects totaling USD 135 million to help Pakistan strengthen its social safety nets and eradicate po...

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