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A policeman was killed and two others wounded Tuesday by a roadside bomb aimed at polio vaccination workers in Pakistan’s restive northwest, ...
Gunmen killed at least two policemen in an attack on a polio vaccination security team in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, the latest setback in the ...
Gunmen in Pakistan shot and killed a police officer guarding a polio immunization team on Wednesday, the latest attack on efforts to protect children ...
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A health worker who had been immunizing children against polio was shot dead in Pakistan’s northwestern province Saturday, the provincial health ...
Fifteen new cases of polio have been confirmed in Syria, including a child who may have caught the disease in Raqqa, the World Health Organization ...
Attempts to eradicate polio in Pakistan have been hit by militant attacks on inoculation teams resullting in 100 deaths
Hassan Al-Damluji, Head of Middle East Relations at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, highlights his organization’s activities in the region
The UAE has immunised more than 20.6 million Pakistani children against polio
Community opposition and Taliban threats block efforts to eradicate the crippling disease in one of its last strongholds
Local militants had abducted the vaccination worker, two local tribal policemen and a driver
The regional vaccination drive launched by aid agencies has now reached most areas in Syria’s 14 governorates
While the landmark did not guarantee that Syria was polio-free, WHO said the mass immunization had been successful
The WHO declared a "public health emergency" at the start of May 2014 after new polio cases began surfacing and spreading across borders ...
Children in Syria’s violence-plagued areas are still at risk of infection
The announcement came as new cases of the crippling disease surfaced in a number of countries
A campaign to reach children across the Middle East will begin this month in efforts to eradicate the uncurable disease
Some areas of Muslim-majority countries still remain affected by the disease, which is easily preventable through a vaccine
Pakistan’s beleaguered battle to eradicate polio is threatening a global, multi-billion-dollar campaign to wipe out the disease
The number of measles cases recorded in Syria was 13 in 2012, but that the figure last year was thought to be over 700
The Imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah could save Pakistan due to Pakistani people’s respect for him
Pakistan is one of three countries in the world where polio remains endemic, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria
Since the start of the conflict almost three years ago, more than 21,000 Syrian babies have been born as refugees
The campaign will be largest-ever immunization response in the region
Polio is preventable if children receive vaccines; however, the contagious disease is incurable
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