Japan has provided $5 million through UNICEF to support polio eradication efforts and strengthen immunization programs across ...

Falling vaccination rates could lead to the return of previously eliminated diseases, and many more people will be at risk of ...

As my term as acting WHO regional director for Africa draws to a close, I have been reflecting on the resilience and ...

Bullish on their success, the global public health enterprise turned to another threat: polio. Eliminating polio would ...

National polio laboratories will help Africa in its final push towards eradicating the disease, writes Chikwe Ihekweazu, outgoing acting director for WHO Africa.

On Aug. 27, the Rutland Daily Herald reported that doctors believed an epidemic of cerebral meningitis, spinal meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis had hit the city and surrounding area. Over the ...

It’s her family that won’t affirm her having polio.

According to state immunization data, vaccination rates among kindergartners in Massachusetts have been falling — from 95.9% ...

Pediatricians like me are worried that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisers will make it harder for children to get the ...

High in the clouds, where the air is thin and the roads are treacherous, a group of committed health workers climbs mountains ...