#Polio

The attackers, travelling on a motorcycle, opened fire on a police car in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Suspected militants have shot and killed two police officers protecting polio workers during a vaccination campaign in northwestern Pakistan

Today, the Africa Regional Certification Commission certified the WHO African Region as wild polio-free after four years without a case. With this historic milestone, five of the six WHO regions – representing over 90% of the world’s population – are now…

WHO has been leading among international organizations in moving away from the unwieldy, less-secure practice of disbursing salaries in cash.…

Confidence in vaccine effectiveness is slipping, in part because the stories that once served to build public trust are no longer being heard.

Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives, as ordinary people chose to protect themselves, their children and their communities from diseases like measles, diphtheria, pertussis, polio, and rotavirus.

After decades of American children routinely receiving polio vaccines, the virus that had doomed many to paralysis was nearly eliminated in the United States. But vaccine avoidance today may allow the crippling disease to return.