While reiterating UNICEF’s commitment to the eradication of polio in Pakistan, its Regional Director for South Asia, Daniel Toole emphasized the need to urgently improve local polio response, vaccination outreach...
From being labelled the world’s lone polio exporter in 2006 to reporting just one positive case up to August this year, the polio scenario had never looked better for India.
Officials in the northern Nigerian state of Kano say hundreds of parents are refusing to get their children immunized against the crippling disease, polio.
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) calls upon traditional and religious leaders in Nigeria to mobilize and educate their subjects on the need to tackle polio,