Polio cases are surging in both countries. Can Pakistan and Afghanistan collaborate on eradicating the virus, even as their ...

Here is what we know about polio as a disease, its vaccines and the likely number of lives saved through inoculation.

Pakistan reported at least 73 cases last year, up from only one in 2021, and the disease is now rapidly spreading in the ...

Pakistan's struggle with polio remains a glaring public health crisis, refusing to abate despite decades of vaccination drives and awareness campaigns. The latest confirmation of wild poliovirus type ...

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

Pakistan is one of the last two countries in the world, alongside Afghanistan, where polio remains endemic. Despite global efforts to eradicate the virus, challenges such as security issues ...

The Pakistani Taliban claimed the killing of a police officer as he travelled Monday to guard polio vaccinators on the first ...

A Pakistan police officer travelling to guard polio vaccinators was shot dead Monday, police said, on the first day of a ...

It is an injectable, inactivated polio vaccine that is still used in some countries today ... Wild poliovirus is still endemic in some areas, including Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The constable died instantly at the scene,” he said. Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan are the only countries where polio is endemic and militants have for decades targeted vaccination teams ...