Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, today announced that it has wrapped up work on an agreement to facilitate donations of 305,000 ...

Considered by public health officials to be one of the greatest success stories in recent history, the polio vaccine is ...

Three countries reported more polio cases this week, including Pakistan, with three more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases.

In a message to mark World Polio Day 2024, WHO Regional Director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, reported that 134 cases of ...

There has been an upward trend of WPV1 detection in Pakistan since mid-2023, initially in the environmental samples and later also in paralytic polio cases ... Guinea in the African Region.

A look at news events in August 2024 1 - The Israeli military confirms the death of Hamas' military leader, Mohammed Deif.

Following the outbreak of the Dry Polio Virus type 2 in Toto LGA of Nasarawa ... one of the countries with the highest cervical cancer cases in the world, having over 8,000 women dying yearly ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. swept onto Capitol Hill late Monday, as the anti-vaccine health guru from the famous political family ...

Genetic analysis by the World Health Organization (WHO) linked these viruses to a strain initially identified in Nigeria, which continues to circulate in several African countries. No cases of polio ...

Healthcare facilities, segregated, led by racist medical standards, advanced the misinformation that African Americans were immune to polio. Because of that, polio cases in Black Americans were not ...

Polio, a disease that can cause irreversible paralysis ... Kenya has recently experienced an outbreak of circulating Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Type 2 (cVDPV2). In 2024, five cases have so far been ...