World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Malawi polio-free following surveillance assessments that show no evidence of ...

The World Health Organisation South East Asia Regional Director, Saima Wazed, stressed the importance of vaccines for a ...

Qatar participated in the 13th meeting of the Regional Subcommittee on Polio Eradication and Outbreaks at the World Health ...

The State of Qatar participated in the thirteenth meeting of the Regional Subcommittee on Polio Eradication and Out ...

The oral dose is cheap and widely used but can cause paralytic polio in areas with low coverage and poor health. The new vaccine does away with this danger.

Vaccines have saved 38 million lives in South-East Asia, including India, said World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, as ...

The WHO reported that over 100 children in Afghanistan and Pakistan were paralyzed last year due to wild poliovirus.

Dr Bonos Mohammed, Anambra State Coordinator for the World Health Organisation (WHO), has clarified that Nigeria continues to ...

Despite Nigeria’s certification as free of wild poliovirus, polio vaccinations remain critical to protect children from a mutated strain still in circulation, Dr. Bonos Mohammed of the World ...

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has said that polio transmission is still active in Nigeria, ...

Wazed highlighted that the WHO has maintained its status as wild poliovirus-free, while maternal and neonatal tetanus remain public health concerns. "We have successfully maintained our wild ...