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POLIO VACCINATION CHALLENGES
ET Awards: Cyrus Poonawalla reflects on SII’s mission of affordable vaccines and saving lives worldwideCyrus Poonawalla began Serum Institute of India in 1966 with a goal to make India self-reliant in healthcare. His vision was to provide aff...- From 60% of global cases to zero: India celebrates 15-year milestone in polio eliminationIndia achieved a historic milestone, completing 15 years without a wild poliovirus case. This success highlights strong political will and ...
- Pakistan's polio cases fell by half in 2025 despite attacks on vaccination teamsPakistan has seen a significant drop in polio cases in 2025, with 30 reported compared to 74 the previous year. Despite ongoing militant at...
- Polio lost, but fake records & imperfect vax helped it rear its ugly headDespite decades of global efforts and billions spent, the polio eradication campaign in Pakistan and Afghanistan faces critical challenges....
- The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, imperfect vaccine, missteps aided its comebackThe global polio eradication program faces setbacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mismanagement, falsified records, and unqualified staff pl...
- Pakistan records three more poliovirus cases; countrywide tally reaches 17Three new poliovirus cases were reported in Pakistan, bringing the 2025 total to 17, with 10 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The cases were found ...
- Polio continues to cripple Pakistan as virus yet again detected across 20 sewage samplesPakistan faces a polio challenge. Poliovirus is found in sewage samples from various districts, including Islamabad. Sindh has the highest ...
- Pakistan records one more poliovirus case; tally reaches 13Pakistani authorities confirmed a new poliovirus case in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, raising the national count to 13 in 2025. The affected child i...
- 3 days, 640,000 children, 1.3M doses. The plan to vaccinate Gaza's young against polioThe U.N. health agency and partners are launching a campaign to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children in Gaza against polio amid a devasta...
- Pakistan reports third polio case amid concerns of widespread transmissionThe latest victim, a 12-year-old girl from the Kili Malak Haqdad area of Darozai union council in Balochistan's Killa Abdullah district, su...
- Polio vaccine shortage looms over India with Sanofi plants' shutdownAn impending crisis looms over India's supply of injectable poliomyelitis vaccine (IPV) as French drugmaker Sanofi has shut down its manufa...
- Polio in US, UK and Israel reveals rare risk of oral vaccineNow, in a surprising twist in the decades-long effort to eradicate the virus, authorities in Jerusalem, New York and London have discovered...
- Pakistan reports polio case to take year's count to 13The latest case was found in the northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and involved an 18-month-old boy reported to be undernourish...
- Global eradication of COVID-19 more feasible than for polio: AnalysisHowever, they said, the main challenges lie in securing sufficiently high vaccine coverage and respond quickly enough to immune-escape vari...
- Pakistan could be next polio-free nation, says WHOAttempts to eradicate the disease in Pakistan have been seriously hampered by the targeting of vaccination teams in recent years by militan...
- No evidence of polio type- 2 virus strain: Bio-medHowever last week the Ghaziabad district court granted bail to Mr Garg on the grounds that the arrests made under the FIR by drug inspector...
- After India, other South East Asian countries opting for fractional doses of IPV: WHOWHO said that India became the first country globally to introduce fractional doses of IPV in childhood immunisation programme in eight sta...
- Panacea Biotec, an Indian pharma firm launches polio vaccine POLPROTEC in NigeriaTo make the vaccine easily available, Panacea Biotec is partnering Emzor pharma which has a strong footprint across Nigeria.
- Indian pharma firm 'Panacea Biotec' launches drug against polio in NigeriaA leading Indian pharmaceutical company has launched a polio vaccine, POLPROTEC in Nigeria to help combat the spread of polio in Africa's t...
- Polio strain from Pakistan a global threat: WHOPakistan is dubbed as the "epicentre" of global terrorism. Now, the terror-affected country is the hotbed of a deadly strain of polio which...
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