The progress towards eradication of poliovirus globally is one of the greatest success stories of the global health community. When the Global Polio Eradication Initiative started in 1988, polio paralysed more than 1000 children worldwide every day. Since then the global incidence of wild poliovirus cases has decreased by 99.9%, …
Parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, Gadap Town Karachi, and Hyderabad have been transmitting poliovirus to other parts of the country apart from closure of last year’s polio case tally by confirming that a total of 58 polio cases were recorded during the year 2012, a massive reduction of 71 per cent …
“Maternal and child health indicate the robustness of our health sector” Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday accorded due appreciation to the fact that the country’s under-five mortality rate has declined much faster than the global average, but agreed that the challenge was to …
Islamic Development Bank has approved $251 million loan for Pakistan’s polio eradication programme following the donor agencies’ refusal to offer funding, according to the relevant officials. The $300 million programme, which is for 2013-15, seeks complete vaccination of children to ensure eradication of the crippling disease in the next three …
Head of the Polio Eradication Initiative at WHO Pakistan Dr Elias Durry has said that Pakistan is on the track to get rid of polio virus type 3 (P3). According to the WHO, type 2 strain of the polio virus (P2) has been eradicated globally since 1999, Radio Pakistan reported. …
A World Health Organization (WHO) official says this is for the first time in the public health history of Pakistan that the country is on the track to get rid of poliovirus type 3 (P3), one of the two globally continuing strains of the wild poliovirus, in April. Last time, …
HYDERABAD – Deputy Commissioner Agha Shahnawaz Babar has set up a Polio Control Room of Hyderabad District as per the criteria of National Emergency Action Plan for Polio Eradication 2013. The Deputy Commissioner has assigned Abid Saleem Qureshi ADC II (Designated Officer/Focal person for Polio by DC), Dr Bakhsh Ali …
Cyrus Poonawalla?s Serum Institute of India to enter injectable polio vaccine market, undercut Glaxo Billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla, founder of the world’s biggest maker of vaccines, will slash the price of polio immunisation and introduce shots for diarrhea and pneumonia, undercutting Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Poonawalla, who set up the Serum …
HYDERABAD - The polio-eradication campaign which was launched in 23 out of 52 high-risk and environmental positive union councils of the four talukas of Hyderabad district on January 17, has come to an end on Sunday with immunization of 1,27,100 children under five years of age against the disease. The …
Vaccine Vial Monitors to allay apprehensions of public regarding the dosage’s potency A total of 3.39 lakh children in the age group of zero to five years have been targeted in Coimbatore district during the first phase of 18{+t}{+h}annual Pulse Polio Programme on Sunday (January 20). To allay public apprehensions …
Seven children have died of measles in Shikarpur district during the month of December, while 25 children are admitted in different hospitals, said the district health department on Thursday. More than a week ago, a measles outbreak was reported from Larkana district where three deaths were confirmed by World Health …
KARACHI, Nov 21: Karachi reported its first polio case of the year on Wednesday, when the national health authorities confirmed poliovirus in an 18-month-old boy living in UC 11 of Liaquatabad, bringing the total number of cases reported in the province to five this year. The director of the expanded …
PESHAWAR, Nov 19: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department has decided to focus its anti-polio efforts in the province on Peshawar as the city has turned out to be a reservoir of the crippling virus. Also, the department has asked vaccinators to record the number of children missing vaccination against polio …
In early 2010, two-and-a-half-year-old Mohammed Qasim Ahmed of Malegaon was detected with the P-1 strain of the polio virus. He was among the many Malegaon families who have consistently refused to get their children vaccinated against polio. The refusal stems from a number of myths, such as children being at …
Amid efforts to attain WHO’s polio-free certification, India has identified around four lakh settlements that are at high risk of polio virus transmission. These settlements mainly comprise migrant clusters at construction sites, nomad settlements, brick kilns and slum habitations. Location of these sites includes Kosi in Central Bihar, Western Uttar …
Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare officers broke into celebrations on Thursday evening when a phone call from the Enterovirus Research Centre, Mumbai, informed them that the suspected case of polio reported from Bihar had tested negative for wild poliovirus. Earlier in the day, the Ministry went into a …
New Delhi: India’s polio-free status could have taken a beating on Thursday when an 18-month-old male baby from Bihar’s Darbhanga district was suspected to have contracted the disease. The ‘news’ sent a chill down the spine of Union health ministry officials, who promptly sent the suspected stool samples for testing …
The World Bank's Board of Directors has approved a $24 million second additional financing for the Third Partnership for Polio Eradication Project (TPPEP) to support Pakistan government’s efforts to immunise about 34.8 million children against polio, with the goal of eradicating the disease from the country. In 1988, when the …
Shifting polio eradication strategies may have generated fear and “resistance” to the eradication program in Aligarh, India during the summer of 2009. Participant observation and formal interviews with 107 people from May to August 2009 indicated that the intensified frequency of vaccination was correlated with patients' doubt in the efficacy …
Shifting polio eradication strategies may have generated fear and “resistance” to the eradication program in Aligarh, India during the summer of 2009. Participant observation and formal interviews with 107 people from May to August 2009 indicated that the intensified frequency of vaccination was correlated with patients' doubt in the efficacy …
