Pakistan held its first polio vaccination drive of 2025, sending workers door-to-door to vaccinate 45 million children. A spike in cases in 2024 was a setback for the eradication of the disease.

Health workers are braving freezing temperatures this week to administer polio vaccinations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir ...

Pakistan launched its first polio vaccination campaign of 2025 on Monday, with which it plans to vaccinate more than 45 million children under the age of five, after registering a sharp increase in ...

ISLAMABAD — Unidentified gunmen shot and killed on Monday a police officer working on Pakistan’s first polio vaccination ...

PESHAWAR, Jan 30 (APP):Despite of resurgence of polio cases in 2024, Pakistan has achieved significant progress in reversing the epidemiological trends of the crippling virus by reducing its genetic ...

KARACHI Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah chaired a provincial taskforce meeting on polio eradication, setting a target for 2025 to eliminate the virus.“ He said that the latest polio ...

Islamabad [Pakistan], January 27 (ANI): In a concerning development in Pakistan's fight against polio, recent sewage samples collected from the Mirpurkhas, Thatta, and Naushahro Feroze districts in ...

Polio is highly contagious and can spread easily from person to person. The poliovirus causes polio, short for poliomyelitis. The virus can live in your throat and digestive system. It enters the body ...

Wild poliovirus was almost eradicated globally two years ago, but poor conditions are causing cases to rise in Afghanistan and spill into Pakistan. https://p.dw.com/p ...

Advt Pakistan has been struggling to eradicate the virus through its polio eradication programme, which in collaboration with the expanded programme on immunisation has been conducting nationwide ...

The Pakistan Polio Pro­g­ramme conducts several mass vaccination campai­gns throughout the year, bringing vaccines directly to children’s doorsteps, while the Expanded Progr­a­mme on ...