Tag: vaccination

Pakistan has witnessed a sharp drop in the number of families refusing to get their children vaccinated against polio, officials said Monday, while lamenting...

Almost one million Pakistani children were left out of a polio vaccination drive which ended Wednesday, officials said, as unrest and flooding limited access...

It took three months and 30 visits from UN aid workers to convince Haidar Khan to let his son have the polio vaccination. The day...

Twenty thousand children in Pakistan were vaccinated against measles and polio in a UAE-funded campaign, according to Wam, the state news agency. The UAE Project...

As a polio-positive case surfaced in the city, the Health Department Rawalpindi has intensified its anti-polio campaign in the area on the directives of...

Millions of children were deprived of polio vaccination due to torrential rains across the country. According to details, as the monsoon rains lashed different parts...

Almost 2 million children across Sindh would be affected from polio after Sindh government decided to postpone polio vaccination campaign across the province due...

In order to vaccinate children below five years of age, Capital Development Authority (CDA) Health Directorate would immunise over 67,000 children against polio virus...

The government on Tuesday claimed progress in vaccinating thousands of children against polio in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan which had been inaccessible due...

Pakistan has made progress in vaccinating thousands of children against polio in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan that had been inaccessible due to unrest...

Goodwill Ambassador for Eradication of Polio Aseefa Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday said that she was committed to eradicating polio from the country and would...

Around 22,000 Pakistani children are at risk in Karachi after the World Health Organization suspended polio vaccinations over a spate of bloody shootings, a...

Dr. Shakil Khan Afridi has been in jail since just a few weeks after Abbotabad raid, and a new report obtained by CNN sheds...

Gunmen opened fire on a UN vehicle in Karachi Tuesday, wounding a foreign doctor working on a polio immunisation campaign and a local driver,...

The Taliban on Saturday announced a ban on polio vaccination in North Waziristan, warning the violators of dire consequences. The shura council of militants led...

A special polio eradication drive continued on Wednesday in 82 districts of the country to vaccinate over 16 million children of under five-year age....

Sultan Khel tribe in Khyber Agency has boycotted the polio vaccination campaign in protest of excessive load shedding the area. At least five of polio...