More than one million Afghan children are expected to be vaccinated over the next few days in the latest polio vaccination campaign that was launched in...
More than one million children are expected to receive polio vaccinations in the fourth round of the current campaign which is set to start on Monday...
Microsoft Corp co-founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates visited Pakistan on Thursday, meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan and saying polio eradication could be possible in coming...
The first national polio immunization campaign for 2022 is set to start this week and will target 9.9 million children aged 0–59 months across the country....
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said Tuesday that four positive cases of wild Poliovirus have been reported since the beginning of this year in Afghanistan....
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations children’s agency launched a polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan on Monday, the first nationwide campaign to fight...
A Polio vaccination drive, started in western provinces of Afghanistan, is aimed at inoculating more than 1.3 million children, health officials said Sunday. Mohammad Asif Kabir,...
A nation-wide polio vaccination campaign will resume in Afghanistan next month, UNICEF announced Monday. In a statement issued by the organization, the World Health Organization and...
Adapt, Stay, Deliver is the title of a statement issued by the World Health Organization on Wednesday that stated the organization was staying on in Afghanistan...
Foreign partners in Afghanistan condemned the “brutal” killing of three female employees of the national polio vaccination campaign who were gunned down in two separate incidents...
President Ashraf Ghani gave Mohammed Mohammedi, the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) polio eradication team in Afghanistan, 24 hours to leave the country,...
President Ashraf Ghani and Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, held a video conference call on Monday night to discuss the polio situation in Afghanistan. During the...
More than 3.5 million children have been deprived of anti-polio vaccinations due to restrictions imposed by the Taliban in several provinces, the Ministry of Public Health...
Pakistan and Afghanistan will further strengthen cross-border cooperation next year by synchronizing campaigns to fight the polio virus. According to Pakistan’s Polio Eradication Program, this was...
Polio immunization campaigns have resumed in Afghanistan after a three-month break due to COVID-19, which in turn has seen an increase in polio cases in the...