OpinionIsrael-Gaza war Devi Sridhar A pause for polio vaccinations is welcome, but the disease’s presence is a window on the true cost of Israel’s warThu 5 Sep 2024 12.26 BSTShare In August, a 10-month-old baby in Gaza was partly paralysed from polio, the first confirmed case there in 25 years. The paralysis […]
Children under five were most at risk from the viral disease, and especially infants under two since normal vaccination campaigns have been disrupted by war. (File/Reuters) REUTERS July 26, 2024 […]
By Fazat Azizah 04/12/2022 For almost a century, Nasyiatul Aisyiyah ‘s (NA) journey has translated Muhammadiyah’s goal of realizing true Islam in struggle and movement. Through the XIVth NA Conference which will be held in Bandung, West Java on December 2-4 2022, NA carries the theme “Strengthening Women, Strengthening Civilization.” […]
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates meets PM Imran on first-ever visit to Pakistan Dawn.com | Naveed Siddiqui Published February 17, 2022 – Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates met Prime Minister Imran Khan on […]
A hoax video showing children falling ill after polio vaccinations underlines the obstacles facing health workers for whom danger has become a way of life Lucy Lamble in Karachi Tue […]
MAY 3, 2019 – A boy receives polio vaccine drops by anti-polio vaccination workers at a booth outside a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz (reuters_tickers) By […]
Dec 27,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – BILL GATES The world’s progress in fighting polio might be one of the best-kept secrets in global health. Indeed, my heroes for 2015 are […]
Sep 05,2015 – JORDAN TIMES It has been a tough year for Nigeria. In the last 12 months, the country has suffered attacks by child suicide bombers and brutal massacres by Boko Haram. The vast majority of the 276 schoolgirls abducted in Chibok last year are still missing. And […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan to set up polio vaccination points at airports Pakistan will set up mandatory polio immunisation points at its international airports in response to recommendations by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the health ministry said Tuesday. The WHO had warned on May 5 that the crippling disease has re-emerged as […]
A young boy receives polio vaccine from government health workers in Najran on Thursday. (SPA) JEDDAH: HABIB SHAIKH & FOUZIA KHAN Leading Islamic scholars from all over the world led by the imam of the Grand Mosque on Thursday adopted a “Jeddah Declaration” and a focused six-month […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A radical Pakistani religious scholar known as the “Father of the Taleban” has issued a fatwa urging parents to immunize their children against polio and other fatal diseases, […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A radical Pakistani religious scholar known as the “Father of the Taleban” has issued a fatwa urging parents to immunize their children against polio and other fatal diseases, […]
BBC: Geneva: Tackling polio has entered “emergency mode” according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative after “explosive” outbreaks in countries previously free of the disease. It has launched a plan […]