In response, Malawi launched an aggressive containment campaign involving mass vaccination drives, intensified case detection ...

David Troxell joined the Rotary Club of Jamestown 12 years ago. He and his wife, Marissa, live half of the year in Jamestown ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has embarked on the second phase of a mass polio vaccination drive, aiming to immunise ...

Childhood vaccinations coverage slowed significantly even before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new study found.

Global efforts to protect children against diseases like measles, polio and tuberculosis have stalled since 2010, leaving millions vulnerable to deadly infections ...

Global efforts to protect children against diseases including measles, polio and tuberculosis have stalled since 2010, ...

Dedicated health workers crossed Pakistan to reach 45 million children in one week with the lifesaving polio vaccine, with ...

3 Nouh, K et al, Use of a fractional dose of inactivated polio vaccine (fIPV) to increase IPV coverage among children under 5 years of age in Somalia, Springer Nature Volume 2 article number 16 (2024) ...

Polio Outbreak Papua New Guinea: This is the first polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea since 2018, when an outbreak was reported in the same area as the new detections, Lae city in Morobe province.

The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) had been detected in stool specimens of two healthy children in Papua New Guinea on May 9.

In Ethiopia, a vast polio vaccination campaign made it possible to immunize more than 15 million children in February 2025. Thanks to a door-to-door approach and a national mobilization, the country ...