The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has launched a statewide immunisation campaign aimed at vaccinating over one million children against polio in Taraba State.The campaign was ...

Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability ...

During his Senate confirmation hearings, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested he wouldn’t undermine vaccines.

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Elimination of Polio in 2014 and Maternal & Neonatal Tetanus in 2015, and the recent launch of the Measles Rubella campaign ...

Before the vaccines, such illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

We are not taking this fight against polio for granted; we are doing everything possible to steadily fight against the polio virus in Kano state. “We, therefore, call on all the Local Government ...

Polio remains a highly infectious disease with very deadly consequences for young children. “One case of polio anywhere in Nigeria is a threat to children everywhere in Nigeria! We must all work ...

In a renewed push to eradicate polio in Sokoto State, the state government, in partnership with UNICEF, on Friday launched the second round of the Outbreak Response (OBR) vaccination campaign ...

Thanks to a tremendous amount of work from a variety of groups across the country and internationally, they eventually discover that this syndrome, which doctors started calling the new polio because ...