PharmaJet has been awarded a UNICEF tender to support WHO and Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) partners. This is the first large-scale implementation of intradermal (ID) polio immunization ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- For nearly four decades, the World Health Organization and partners have been trying to rid the world of polio, a paralytic disease that has existed since prehistoric times.

Polio Vaccination Campaign Planned in Afghanistan with PharmaJet® Tropis® ID Delivery System PharmaJet has been awarded a tender to support the first large-scale implementation of intradermal (ID) ...

Before the development of the first poliovirus vaccine in 1955, poliomyelitis paralysed and killed up to half a million people every year. By 2000, mass vaccination campaigns, armed with new types of ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — For nearly four decades, the World Health Organization and partners have been trying to rid the world of polio, a paralytic disease that has existed since prehistoric times.

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global ...

Two-year-old Farid should have been vaccinated against polio, but his family -- like many in rural Afghanistan -- believed the conspiracy theories and refused to have him inoculated. "When the doctors ...

People also bring it with them across the border from neighboring Afghanistan. In the past, both Afghanistan and Pakistan have each come close to eradicating the virus, says Dr. Jafari of WHO. But the ...

For nearly four decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners have been trying to rid the world of polio, a paralytic disease that has existed since prehistoric times. While cases have ...

Islamabad: Pakistan will vaccinate more than 45 million children during its first nationwide polio eradication campaign of ...

The first phase of the national immunization campaign for polio eradication, using domestically produced vaccines, will cover ...

The world is so close to wiping out polio. But in 2025, there are signs that the virus is not quite ready to go the way of smallpox — the only disease eradicated by humans. Two countries are seeing an ...