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%, …
India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was today taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisation. This announcement was made by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at the polio summit 2012 here in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Azad …
India may have won the battle against polio but the war is far from over. Having achieved one full polio-free year, the key challenge now is to ensure that any residual or imported poliovirus in the country is rapidly detected and eliminated. The challenge is also to ensure that all …
With no polio case reported in the last one year, India has reasons to rejoice. But health officials have cautioned that the quest to wipe out the crippling disease faces serious threat from the unchecked “possible polio-carrier” arriving through international airports across the country. And what’s worrisome is that it …
Panacea Biotec has launched polio vaccine POLPROTEC in Nigeria to help combat the spread of the debilitating disease in the country, one of the last nations still to eradicate the virus. To make the vaccine easily available, Panacea is partnering Emzor Pharma, which has a strong footprint across Nigeria. During …
India is inching closer to the goal of polio eradication and hopes to be free of the deadly viral infection by 2014. In fact, transmission is at an all-time low, making a strong case for WHO to consider taking India off the list of polio-endemic countries, which also include Pakistan, …
Three men who spearheaded the movement to start mass vaccinationof children At the Polio Summit in New Delhi this weekend, Rotarians would be celebrating the country's first polio-free year. They form the backbone of a movement that has resulted in polio immunisation programme becoming a routine in every State. Though …
Before the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, polio crippled an estimated 200,000 children in India each year. As recently as 2009, India reported almost half the world’s cases – 741 out of a total 1604 cases worldwide. Many health experts predicted India would be the last country to …
The polio eradication programme in Andhra Pradesh will focus on the vulnerable sections of the society this year. This was disclosed at the formal launch of first round of pulse polio programme by the Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, here on Sunday. The second round, scheduled to commence …
As many as 73,839 children below the age of five years have been administered with polio vaccine as part of the Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme in Pathanamthitta district on Sunday, according to official sources. Of the 73,839 children who have been administered with the polio vaccine, 191 belonged to parents …
Report says notwithstanding the success in India, current stalemate is unsustainable “It is now or never” for the global polio eradication programme, the Independent Monitoring Board that periodically evaluates the worldwide effort has warned. Unless an emergency response produced quick results, the programme could “fail monumentally.” Notwithstanding the success in …
While the country celebrated a year free of polio, health officials are now racing against time to ensure that several distribution centres across states receive their stock of the vaccine before the first national immunisation round is held on February 19. With 17.5 crore children set to receive the dose …
To be organised in the district on February 19 and April 1 More than 2.14 lakh children aged below five years in Erode district will be administered polio drops during the Pulse Polio immunisation campaign scheduled to be held in two phases on February 19 and April 1. The administration …
A two-phase pulse polio immunisation programme is scheduled to be carried out in the district in February and April. A consultative meeting on mass pulse polio immunisation was conducted at the Collectorate on Monday. The proposed immunisation is slated to cover 1,37,925 children under five years at all government primary …
The challenge is to build on India’s recent successes in vaccine research to reach the global cutting edge in producing vaccines for killer diseases such as HIV and TB. Vaccines are a true gift of science to humanity. In developing countries, prevention is better than cure. Vaccines have a great …
The First National Immunisation Days (NIDs) of the year are scheduled on January 30, 31 and February 01’2012. Pakistan has reported a total of 192 cases so far, but several pending cases from last year are still under examination at the Polio Virology Lab at the NIH, and the final …
Bill Gates, co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has praised India for managing to eradicate polio despite all odds. “In 2012, we need to keep India and all the other places that are polio-free from getting re-infected,” he said. Only three years ago, India had more polio cases than …
With 73 children paralysed for life in 2011, Balochistan was the worst hit by polio in Pakistan, said a report complied by the Pakistan Polio Journal. According to the report, 60 percent of the globally reported cases were from Pakistan, where Balochistan was the worst affected area, in which 70 …
Islamabad—The government has planned to launch three-day national polio eradication drive from January 30 to vaccinate 33 million children of under five-year age. Addressing a press conference here, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Shahnaz Wazir Ali on Monday said that it was decided to include government official or employee …
Karachi—Ambassador for Polio Eradication, Ms Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, has called for stepped up efforts to completely eradicate the crippling disease of Polio from the country and to once again achieve the status of Polio free country as was achieved during the government of Shaheed Mohtarma Benzir Bhutto in mid 90s. …
An 18 month-old boy, who was diagnosed as a first polio victim of the current year, died here a few days ago. `My son died at Mayo Hospital after a week of hospitalisation,` Banara Khan told Dawn on Monday. The death which sent shockwaves through the community may be a …
