Despite decades of global efforts and billions spent, the polio eradication campaign in Pakistan and Afghanistan faces critical challenges....

The global polio eradication program faces setbacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mismanagement, falsified records, and unqualified staff pl...

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...

The Union Health Ministry has communicated the decision to defer the polio immunisation programme to all states through a letter on January...

The attack close to the premises of a polio eradication centre in Balochistan's capital Quetta, killed at least 15 people and injured 20 ot...

Today is the third day of a three-day anti-polio campaign which was launched in Quetta and other districts of Balochistan on Monday.

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

Over 4,000 cases of refusal of polio vaccination have been recorded in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, officials said.

"In precise aerial strikes in Tirah, Khyber region, 34 terrorists were killed today," the military said in a statement.

Militants allege that the anti-polio vaccine is a Western conspiracy to sterilise Muslims though Islamic scholars reject any such allegatio...

The target of the SIAD campaign, which had to be held in the high-risk union councils of 54 districts, was to vaccinate 8.5 million childre...

Pakistan government has come under criticism for doing little to eradicate the virus which is a threat to the world.

The World Health Organisation in its progress report held Pakistan responsible for failing to curb the surge in polio cases.

The Indian High Commission issued a statement yesterday warning that such visa applications would be rejected and the applicants permanentl...

Gunmen has frequently attacked polio vaccination workers, accusing them of being Western spies and part of a plot to sterilise Muslims.

The newly CIA policy mandates that it won't use vaccination programmes as part of its spy operations, according to senior Obama administrat...

Incidentally, India became polio-free last year, and barring stray cases in West Bengal, the country remained polio-free in the past one ye...