A huge opportunity for immunisation advocacy has arisen as Pakistan became the first country in South Asia to introduce pneumococcal vaccine.
A High Level Meeting at the United Nations demonstrated strong political commitment to the fight against polio. But will funding follow?
Angola goes one year without any new polio cases.
The World Health Assembly (the governing body of the World Health Organization) is declaring that Polio is a "global health emergency." Why this matters.
Ban Ki Moon: The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has only half of the $2 billion it needs to procure vaccines and deploy staff to the last bastions of the disease. Properly equipped, they can win this final battle. If the international community recognizes the stakes and musters the resources, we can win the war against polio — at long last and forever.
The world is closer than ever to ridding the planet of the polio virus, but the global polio eradication effort faces a huge funding shortfall that may undermine humanity's progress against the disease.
Here is a world-historical event that you probably missed this week. India, which holds the world's second largest population, has not had a new case of polio for one year.
This week the world celebrates a major milestone in the global fight against polio. On January 13, India will mark one year in which no child was paralyzed by polio – for the first time in history.
Reports that the CIA used a vaccination campaign as a ruse to gather intelligence on Osama Bin Laden may set back efforts to eradicate Polio in endemic countries.