17 hours ago · ISLAMABAD (AP) — A police officer working on Pakistan’s first polio vaccination drive of the year was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen Monday, police said. Pakistan deployed thousands of police officers to protect health workers who go house-to-house to inoculate children and are targeted by militants who falsely claim the vaccination campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize ...

Learn about the Pakistan Polio Eradication Program, a government-led initiative aimed at eliminating polio from the country through vaccination campaigns, awareness-raising, and surveillance. Discover the progress made in reducing polio cases and the challenges that remain.

Islamabad, Pakistan, 26 January 2025 – In the face of increasing wild poliovirus transmission in the last two remaining endemic countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan, global health experts gathered in Islamabad last week to evaluate measures to urgently reverse the …

Pakistan is one of the two remaining countries [1][2] in the world where poliomyelitis (polio) is still categorized as an endemic viral infection, [3] the other one being Afghanistan. [1] While it has yet to fully eradicate polio, there has been a major downwards trend in the number of reported cases per year; the total count of wild poliovirus cases in Pakistan in 2019 was down to 147, [4 ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — After years of decline, polio is surging again in this populous South Asian nation, dimming hopes that the viral disease — eradicated nearly everywhere else on Earth ...

Oct 20, 2024 · Health authorities in Pakistan say they have confirmed six more cases of polio, taking the number of infected children to 39 this year. The new cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) included ...

Sep 12, 2024 · This report describes changes in the number of wild poliovirus type 1 cases in Pakistan from January 2022–June 2023 to January 2023–June 2024.

Pakistan is one of three remaining polio-endemic countries in the world, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria. However, since the launch of the Pakistan’s Polio Eradication Programme in 1994, there has been a massive decline in polio cases in Pakistan from approximately 20,000 every year in the early 1990s to only eight cases in 2018.

Jan 23, 2024 · Merlissa Corkum UNICEF/Pakistan Melissa Corkum is the Chief of Polio Team in Pakistan. She brings with her more than 20 years’ of experience in Polio eradication. Most recently, she held the position of Senior Manager for Polio Outbreak Response in UNICEF, co-leading the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s Outbreak Response and ...

Aug 17, 2023 · Abstract Since the establishment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988, Pakistan remains one of only two countries (along with Afghanistan) with continued endemic transmission of wild poliovirus (WPV). This report describes Pakistan’s progress toward polio eradication during January 2022–June 2023. During 2022, Pakistan reported 20 WPV type 1 (WPV1) cases, all of which ...