Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry called it a historic step, and quoted Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi as welcoming ...

Pakistan Print 2025-04-15 Pakistan, Afghanistan will start joint anti-polio drives: minister Abdul Rasheed Azad Published April 15, 2025 Follow us ...

The campaign, scheduled to run from Monday to Thursday, will offer anti-polio drops to children in 16 out of the country's 34 provinces, said Sharafat Zaman Amarkhil, spokesperson for the ministry.

Health workers vaccinate a 2-year-old child during a polio vaccination campaign in January 2015 in a rural area of Tehsil Fateh Jang, Punjab in Pakistan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ CDC Global ...

As vaccination falters, polio back in Afghanistan, Pakistan Deutsche Welle / Jan 25, 2025, 10:06 IST AA ...

In 2020, the whole African region was declared free of wild poliovirus, leaving just two countries yet to stop the spread of the disease: Afghanistan and Pakistan.

A document of Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), available with Dawn, shows that as of Dec 26, Pakistan reported over 67 cases as compared to Afghanistan’s 25 cases.

Kabul, Dec 23 (EFE).- Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health on Monday began a new round of polio vaccination campaign, aiming to immunize around 4.8 million children under the age of five.

Pakistan and Afghanistan are the last two countries in the world where polio remains endemic. The WHO South-East Asia Region, a bloc of 11 countries stretching from Indonesia to India, was certified ...

ISLAMABAD — Polio cases are rising ahead of a new vaccination campaign in Pakistan, where violence targeting health workers and the police protecting them has hampered years of efforts toward ...

Afghanistan recently suspended its house-to-house polio vaccination efforts. Whether or not vaccinations will resume is uncertain. This has significant implications, because polio remains a threat ...

The Taliban's decision to halt door-to-door polio vaccinations in Afghanistan has jeopardized the nation's fight against the disease. Edited by: Nikhil Pandey World News Sep 24, 2024 08:41 am IST ...