India has significantly reduced the percentage of zero-dose children and achieved remarkable progress in maternal and child health. This su...

Panacea Biotec has secured a $20 million long-term loan from the US International Development Finance Corporation to expand its hexavalent ...

A nationwide three-day pulse polio vaccination drive targeting children aged 0 to 5 is underway. Starting on Sunday, mobile teams, transit ...

Data showed the vast majority of the children who failed to get immunized were living in developing countries.

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

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

In 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,...

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

India’s vaçcine programme is likely to get a major push in the New Year with the government attracting international funding to ramp up its...

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

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 health ministry has finalized talks with Bachchan and is set to launch the campaign in April, a senior official in the ministry said.

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

The diseases are diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles and hepatitis B, an official statement here said.

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

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

A five-month-old child from the Murshidabad district of West Bengal has got infected with the virus after taking the oral polio vaccine.