Pakistan recorded a significant decline in polio cases during 2025 despite around 800,000 children missing the final nationwide vaccination campaign of the year, according to officials from the polio eradication programme. Read More: Pakistan’s final Polio push of 2025 begins Polio, a highly infectious viral disease that can cause irreversible paralysis, remains endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan. […]
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Balochistan launches major measles-rubella drive
QUETTA: Balochistan has launched a large-scale measles-rubella vaccination campaign beginning today (Nov 17), aiming to inoculate more than 2.2 million children across the province. The effort, announced by the Expanded Programme on Immunisation’s (EPI) provincial coordinator Dr Aftab Kakar, will continue until Nov 29. Read More: Nationwide rubella, measles vaccination drive to begin from today Speaking at a […]
Violence against polio teams declines in KP, coverage improves
PESHAWAR: The incidence of attacks on health workers during door-to-door polio vaccination campaigns has declined in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, enabling better immunisation coverage of previously inaccessible children. Officials attributed the improvement to enhanced security measures and strict supervision, which have allowed vaccinators to operate without fear. Since 2012, 96 people, including 61 policemen, 27 health workers, […]