16/02/2010
Polio, peace and partnership
For the past three days, 19 000 health workers travelled from house-to-house in 14 provinces to reach 2.8 million children under 5 years of age in southern, south-eastern, western and eastern Afghanistan. The immunization...
15/02/2010
Under-fives in Nad Ali District are missing out on polio immunization due to an ongoing military operation
Under-five children in Nad Ali District, Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, are missing out on polio immunization due to an ongoing militar...
10/01/2010
Launching campaigns in Buddhism's holiest site
The Dalai Lama inaugurated polio vaccination campaigns here today, in Buddhism's holiest site. The campaigns in Bihar state, India, were the first in the country to use the new bivalent oral pol...