Pakistan Polio Drive

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  Pakistan Grapples With Drug-Resistant Typhoid Outbreak

  Pakistan's government has launched a huge foreign-funded vaccination drive against typhoid that began on Nov 15.

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  7 Pakistani Policemen Killed During Anti-Polio Drive

  Unidentified gunmen attacked policemen guarding medical workers administering polio vaccinations in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing seven of them, in the latest violence against efforts to eradicate the crippling childhood disease.

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  Pakistan Committed to Eradicate Polio: Nawaz Sharif

  Pakistan is committed to make the world polio-free, the country's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said.

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  Pakistan Polio Drive Postponed Till Next Week

  A four-day drive against polio scheduled to be launched in Pakistan's Sindh province had to be postponed until November due to the refusal by police to provide security to polio workers, the media reported today.

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  Four Polio Vaccinators Shot Dead in Southwest Pakistan

  Gunmen opened fire on a team of polio vaccinators in Pakistan's restive southwest on Wednesday, killing four of them and forcing authorities to halt an immunization drive, officials said.

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  Misbah-ul-Haq Backs UNICEF Polio Drive

  Pakistan captain Misbah said his team is wholeheartedly behind the campaign against polio.

• India Offers Pakistan 'Full Cooperation' for Polio Eradication

  India today offered Pakistan "full cooperation" for eradicating polio from its soil and said it is a "cause for concern" for it that the neighboring country accounts for 85 per cent of the world's polio cases.

• Pakistan Launches Fresh Polio Drive For Tribal Regions

  Pakistan on Monday launched a fresh drive to vaccinate more than 700,000 children in its restive tribal belt against polio, but officials said nearly 300,000 others would miss out because of threats from militants.

• Pakistan launches anti-polio drive in lawless tribal belt

  A three-day anti-polio drive has been launched in the lawless tribal belt of northwest Pakistan to vaccinate over 220,000 children.

• Gunmen kill two polio workers in Pakistan

  Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead two health workers during an anti-polio drive in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, police said, the latest in a series of deadly attacks on vaccination teams.

• World Health Organisation cancels polio drive after gunmen kill two workers in Pakistan

  The World Health Organisation (WHO) suspended its polio eradication campaign in Pakistan's Peshawar today after two young workers were shot as they administered drops, the latest attack aimed at the UN-backed operation.

• Gunmen kill Pakistani policeman during polio drive

  Gunmen shot to death a policeman protecting a team of female polio workers in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, the latest in a series of attacks on people working on the UN-backed vaccination campaign, police said.

• 240,000 Pakistani children miss anti-polio drive

  A top UNICEF official says as many as 240,000 children have missed U.N.-backed vaccinations against polio because of security concerns in Pakistan's tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.

• Three dead in fresh Pakistan polio attacks

  Gunmen killed three people working on a polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said, as the nationwide drive against the crippling disease suffered a third day of bloodshed.

• $1 billion shortfall imperils polio eradication drive

  It remains endemic in three countries—Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria—after India in January became the latest country to become polio-free, after going a full year without registering a new case.