ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for National Health Services and Regulations Mustafa Kamal, Monday, while spelling out the importance of polio vaccination has said that Pakistan and Afghanistan will ...

Cases have been rising in Afghanistan and Pakistan — and global health specialists are worried that this year's U.S. foreign ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that no polio cases have been reported in Pakistan since February 10. He shared this ...

The committee's findings state that Pakistan and Afghanistan continue to pose a threat to polio eradication efforts being made globally. The two nations have been held responsible for the global ...

Pakistan has reported six new cases of polio since January. According to the World Health Organization, Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan remain the only two countries where the potentially ...

Cash-strapped Afghanistan appears to have done better than neighbour Pakistan in fight against polio. A report by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) published by Pakistani news outlet ...

The government, alongside international donors and development partners, gathered in Islamabad to reaffirm their commitment to collaborative efforts to ensure a polio-free future for children.

Thousands of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan have been forcibly repatriated since Pakistani authorities set an April 10 deadline for those without documents to leave the country. Truckloads of ...

An Afghan health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a vaccination campaign in southern Kandahar province on December 23, 2024 - Copyright AFP ...

The World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Agency have kicked off a polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan. WHO and UNICEF in a statement welcome the decision by the Taliban ...

According to an official of the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health, 60 environmental (sewage) samples were collected from 51 districts and tested.