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Opinion | India's 10 Years As A Polio-Free Nation
This year marks a decade of a polio-free India - one of the country's most profound public health achievements to date.
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Philippines Declared Polio-Free Once Again After Vaccine Campaign
The Philippines is once again polio-free, the World Health Organization said Friday, after a successful vaccination campaign that has raised hopes for COVID-19 inoculations in a country plagued by mistrust of jabs.
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UNICEF, WHO Say India Remains Polio-Free, Vaccine Safe
In the backdrop of some oral polio vaccine vials being found contaminated with the type-2 polio virus, UNICEF and the WHO today reiterated India's status as a polio-free country.
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World Polio Day 2017: How India Went From 4 Lakh To Zero Cases In 10 Years
World Polio Day 2017: Here's an insight to India's journey towards the complete eradication of polio in the country.
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To Keep India Polio-Free, How Government Is Strengthening Immunization Programme
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday launched the pulse polio programme for 2017 by administering polio drops to children aged below five years at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The programme will cover 17 crore children aged under five years in an effort to maintain the country’s ‘polio-free’ status. Mr Mukherjee launched the countrywi...
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No Threat To Polio-Free Status Of India, Says WHO
Amidst concerns over resurfacing of polio cases in India, the WHO today said there is "no threat" to the polio-free status of all South East Asian region countries, including India, and the detection of a rare strain of the crippling disease is "not unusual".
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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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India Should Be Wary of Importing Polio From Pakistan, US Disease Control Chief Says
While India has been polio-free since last year, it should be on the guard against importing the wild poliovirus from neighbouring Pakistan, says Dr Thomas Frieden, head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Aim to Completely Eradicate Polio by Next Year: Pakistan
Pakistan is preparing a comprehensive national immunisation plan to make the country polio-free by the next year.
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Health Ministers of SAARC Nations Meet PM Modi to Discuss a Polio-Free South Asia
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met the Health Ministers of SAARC countries and stressed on the need for sharing of the best practices and vision in the fields of modern medical science and health care.
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Share Best Practices in Healthcare, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tells SAARC Nations
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday stressed the need for sharing best practices among SAARC nations in the fields of modern medical science and healthcare, an official release said in New Delhi.
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India Will Support Surveillance of Polio-Free Countries: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said India will support medical surveillance of polio-free countries, and provide vaccines where it might reappear.
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How India rid itself of Polio
India today marked a major achievement in public health - the victory over polio. The country has now completed three years without any polio cases, one of the key per-requisites for polio-free certification from the World Health Organisation.
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India completes three years without polio
India has completed three years without polio, a landmark achievement which would pave the way for a polio-free certification from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the health ministry on Monday said.
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WHO to soon issue polio-free certificate to India: minister
The World Health Organisation will soon certify India as a polio-free country, Punjab Health and Family Welfare minister Surjeet Kumar Jayani said today.
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Opinion | India's 10 Years As A Polio-Free Nation
This year marks a decade of a polio-free India - one of the country's most profound public health achievements to date.
-
Philippines Declared Polio-Free Once Again After Vaccine Campaign
The Philippines is once again polio-free, the World Health Organization said Friday, after a successful vaccination campaign that has raised hopes for COVID-19 inoculations in a country plagued by mistrust of jabs.
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UNICEF, WHO Say India Remains Polio-Free, Vaccine Safe
In the backdrop of some oral polio vaccine vials being found contaminated with the type-2 polio virus, UNICEF and the WHO today reiterated India's status as a polio-free country.
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World Polio Day 2017: How India Went From 4 Lakh To Zero Cases In 10 Years
World Polio Day 2017: Here's an insight to India's journey towards the complete eradication of polio in the country.
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To Keep India Polio-Free, How Government Is Strengthening Immunization Programme
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday launched the pulse polio programme for 2017 by administering polio drops to children aged below five years at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The programme will cover 17 crore children aged under five years in an effort to maintain the country’s ‘polio-free’ status. Mr Mukherjee launched the countrywi...
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No Threat To Polio-Free Status Of India, Says WHO
Amidst concerns over resurfacing of polio cases in India, the WHO today said there is "no threat" to the polio-free status of all South East Asian region countries, including India, and the detection of a rare strain of the crippling disease is "not unusual".
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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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India Should Be Wary of Importing Polio From Pakistan, US Disease Control Chief Says
While India has been polio-free since last year, it should be on the guard against importing the wild poliovirus from neighbouring Pakistan, says Dr Thomas Frieden, head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Aim to Completely Eradicate Polio by Next Year: Pakistan
Pakistan is preparing a comprehensive national immunisation plan to make the country polio-free by the next year.
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Health Ministers of SAARC Nations Meet PM Modi to Discuss a Polio-Free South Asia
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met the Health Ministers of SAARC countries and stressed on the need for sharing of the best practices and vision in the fields of modern medical science and health care.
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Share Best Practices in Healthcare, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tells SAARC Nations
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday stressed the need for sharing best practices among SAARC nations in the fields of modern medical science and healthcare, an official release said in New Delhi.
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India Will Support Surveillance of Polio-Free Countries: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said India will support medical surveillance of polio-free countries, and provide vaccines where it might reappear.
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How India rid itself of Polio
India today marked a major achievement in public health - the victory over polio. The country has now completed three years without any polio cases, one of the key per-requisites for polio-free certification from the World Health Organisation.
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India completes three years without polio
India has completed three years without polio, a landmark achievement which would pave the way for a polio-free certification from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the health ministry on Monday said.
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WHO to soon issue polio-free certificate to India: minister
The World Health Organisation will soon certify India as a polio-free country, Punjab Health and Family Welfare minister Surjeet Kumar Jayani said today.
