Tag: polio eradication

ISLAMABAD: Despite alarming upsurge in polio cases in Pakistan this year, the government of UAE has determined to eradicate polio from Pakistan entirely through its...

ISLAMABAD: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) on Thursday recommended a second revision of the polio eradication emergency plan worth of US$986.3 million. Presiding over...

ISLAMABAD: As many as 745 polio cases were reported in the year 2018, registering a significant decrease as compared to 2017, due to great...

ISLAMABAD: Germany will provide Euro 5 million to Pakistan for the eradication of polio in order to completely eliminate this menace from the country by...

EOC coordinator says victim boy can easily fight against poliovirus attack due to multiple vaccine doses PESHAWAR: A 19-month-old boy has been diagnosed with the...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has made a remarkable progress in protecting every child from polio disease, reducing number of the polio cases from almost 20,000 every year...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Germany on Tuesday signed four financial and technical agreements for vaccination and polio eradication from the country. Economic Affairs Division Secretary Arif Ahmed...

PESHAWAR: An orientation-cum-consultation awareness workshop on polio was held for senior journalists on Thursday. The participants were updated on the ongoing efforts for the eradication...

  Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, the Rotary Ambassador for Polio, has appreciated the headway made in polio eradication in Pakistan and congratulated frontline workers for bringing...

ISLAMABAD: Japanese Ambassador to Pakistan Takashi Kurai and UNICEF Pakistan Acting Country Representative Cristian Munduate have signed an agreement which states that the government of...

ISLAMABAD: A three-day anti-polio campaign began in selected areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Frontier Regions and Balochistan on Monday. According...

NEW YORK: American tech tycoon and philanthropist Bill Gates called on Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in New York on Thursday. Gates, who is the...

NEW YORK: Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Maleeha Lodhi says Pakistan is now close to being a polio-free country. She told UNICEF's Executive...

An anti-polio drive campaign has been initiated on Monday in different parts of the country. A five-day supplementary polio immunisation drive started today in the...

  UNICEF representative in Pakistan Angela Kearney has said that the government of Japan has approved $2.98 million grant for polio eradication programme in Pakistan. She...