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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...
- Zero-dose children in India declined from 0.11% in 2023 to 0.06% in 2024: Union Health MinistryIndia has significantly reduced the percentage of zero-dose children and achieved remarkable progress in maternal and child health. This su...
- Zero-dose children in India declined from 0.11% in 2023 to 0.06% in 2024: Union Health MinistryIndia has significantly reduced the percentage of zero-dose children and achieved remarkable progress in maternal and child health. This su...
- Panacea Biotec gets $20 million loan from US government for hexavalent vaccine capacity expansionPanacea Biotec has secured a $20 million long-term loan from the US International Development Finance Corporation to expand its hexavalent ...
- Three-day pulse polio vaccination drive begins today: Here are all details on booths, timings, and areasA nationwide three-day pulse polio vaccination drive targeting children aged 0 to 5 is underway. Starting on Sunday, mobile teams, transit ...
- Around 25 mn kids around the world missed routine vaccinations because of Covid pandemicData showed the vast majority of the children who failed to get immunized were living in developing countries.
- 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...
- India remains polio free, all vaccines used in government immunisation prog safe: UNICEF, WHOThe United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said the risk of children getting vaccine derived polio...
- Global measles deaths drop 84% since 2000, but the disease still kills 90,000 every yearIn 2016, global deaths from measles dropped over 80% to an estimated 90,000 people from more than 550,000 deaths in 2000, according to WHO,...
- Indradhanush programme to be renamedHealth Minister J P Nadda said that since four new vaccination has been added to the immunisation programme, its name has to be changed.
- International funds to inject new life in government’s vaccine driveIndia’s vaçcine programme is likely to get a major push in the New Year with the government attracting international funding to ramp up its...
- WHO using Indian polio network to support Mission IndradhanushMission Indradhanush aims to cover by 2020 all such children, who are either unvaccinated or are partially vaccinated against seven vaccine...
- WHO asks India to close immunisation gap to avert death due to vaccine-preventable diseasesAn estimated 21.8 million infants worldwide missed out on basic vaccines in 2013 mostly in poor, low-resource countries, according to the W...
- After polio, Amitabh Bachchan to lead India's fight against hepatitis B campaignThe health ministry has finalized talks with Bachchan and is set to launch the campaign in April, a senior official in the ministry said.
- Universal immunisation programme coverage 65% in 2014: Nadda"The full immunisation coverage is approximately 65 per cent in 2014," Nadda said, adding that the government was setting targets for child...
- Mission launched to cover kids against preventable diseasesThe diseases are diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles and hepatitis B, an official statement here said.
- Build on Polio success to fight other diseasesMany diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis are now more common than vaccine-preventable diseases.
- Terrorism a disease that will be eliminated: Pakistan PM Nawaz SharifThe Pakistan government will eliminate terrorism, a "disease" that has inflicted society, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said.
- Year's first case of vaccine-derived polio reported in BengalA five-month-old child from the Murshidabad district of West Bengal has got infected with the virus after taking the oral polio vaccine.
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