World Health Organization reports 64 polio infections this year: 41 in Pakistan and 23 in Afghanistan, up from six each in ...

According to the WHO’s latest report, the new polio sample was identified in Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province.

Bill Gates is visiting Pakistan for the first time to attend the meeting of National Task Force for Polio Eradication on the special invitation of Prime Minister Imran Khan. Imran Khan said ...

Pakistani officials say militants attacked a health center used in an ongoing anti-polio campaign in the country's northwest, ...

The Afghan caretaker government's Ministry of Public Health on Monday announced a three-day vaccination campaign aimed at ...

The campaign aims to protect 45 million children after a surge in new cases in one of two countries where it was never ...

Militant attacks and suspicion stemming from misinformation are hampering Pakistan's battle to eradicate polio, but teams of ...

Nine people were killed, including five children, in a bombing on Friday that targeted a southwest Pakistan polio drive, ...

Seventy-six districts were affected in all, the program said. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries where polio ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries in the world where the spread of polio has never been stopped. It is one of the world’s most infectious diseases, so it continues to spread ...

A child is given a dose of anti-polio vaccine in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 29, 2024. The Afghan caretaker government's Ministry of Public Health on Monday announced a three-day vaccination campaign ...

Running from Monday to Wednesday, the campaign will provide anti-polio drops to children in 16 out of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, said Sharafat Zaman Amarkhil, spokesperson for the ministry.