World Polio Day

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) developed a new roadmap for immunizing all children and ending polio once and for all.

World Polio Day 2017: Here's an insight to India's journey towards the complete eradication of polio in the country.

World Polio Day 2017: Though there is no cure for polio, you can always sought to a prevention of this disease.

On World Polio Day today, India, which was declared polio-free in March 2014, has a lot of reasons to cheer. Some concerns, though, cloud the merriment. Photo Credit: AFP After the World Health Organisation declared India a polio free nation in 2014, the government had warned that wild polio continues to thrive in India’s neighbourhood – in Pak...

Geneva: Two companies making vaccines to help the world eradicate polio are failing to produce enough, so many countries should prepare to give lower doses to make stocks last, a group of experts has advised the World Health Organisation or WHO. With polio on the brink of eradication globally, the WHO wants to see a worldwide switch from the tradi...

Three more polio cases have surfaced in Pakistan, increasing the number of new cases in the country to a record 220, the WHO said on Friday as countries across the globe observed World Polio Day to raise awareness about the crippling disease.

12,000 crores spent and much learnt, writes Deepak Kapur.

The Pakistani military said it had bombed the hideout of a militant leader on Sunday, killing five insurgents, only a day after the Taliban declared a one-month ceasefire to pursue stalled peace talks with the government.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will arrive in Islamabad on Tuesday for a two-day visit, the state media reported on Saturday.

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.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) developed a new roadmap for immunizing all children and ending polio once and for all.

World Polio Day 2017: Here's an insight to India's journey towards the complete eradication of polio in the country.

World Polio Day 2017: Though there is no cure for polio, you can always sought to a prevention of this disease.

On World Polio Day today, India, which was declared polio-free in March 2014, has a lot of reasons to cheer. Some concerns, though, cloud the merriment. Photo Credit: AFP After the World Health Organisation declared India a polio free nation in 2014, the government had warned that wild polio continues to thrive in India’s neighbourhood – in Pak...

Geneva: Two companies making vaccines to help the world eradicate polio are failing to produce enough, so many countries should prepare to give lower doses to make stocks last, a group of experts has advised the World Health Organisation or WHO. With polio on the brink of eradication globally, the WHO wants to see a worldwide switch from the tradi...

Three more polio cases have surfaced in Pakistan, increasing the number of new cases in the country to a record 220, the WHO said on Friday as countries across the globe observed World Polio Day to raise awareness about the crippling disease.

12,000 crores spent and much learnt, writes Deepak Kapur.

The Pakistani military said it had bombed the hideout of a militant leader on Sunday, killing five insurgents, only a day after the Taliban declared a one-month ceasefire to pursue stalled peace talks with the government.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will arrive in Islamabad on Tuesday for a two-day visit, the state media reported on Saturday.

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.