The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) had been detected ...

Polio has broken out before in Papua New Guinea, with the most recent incident happening in June of 2018, after a reported 20 ...

The Gaza Hamas-run Health Ministry claimed to have identified the first case of polio in the Gaza Strip on Friday. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a humanitarian ceasefire in ...

Risk of famine in Gaza increasing with 'deliberate withholding ... He also warned about setbacks, pointing out that the number of polio cases detected in Pakistan and Afghanistan increased ...

Younis R. Awadallah, a doctor who was once UNICEF’s top public health specialist in Gaza, had worked through four previous ...

The World Health Organisation has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and called for an "immediate" vaccination ...

Israel's total siege of Gaza is entering its third month. Doctors and aid workers said they are seeing malnourished children ...

An Israeli blockade on the entry of polio vaccines into Gaza leaves the lives of over 600,000 Palestinian children at risk, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. “The blocking of the entry of ...

Gaza's Health Ministry said a United Nations-backed polio vaccination campaign meant to target over 600,000 children had been suspended, putting the enclave at risk of the revival of a crippling ...

Gaza healthcare faces collapse due to blockade, say officials Polio vaccination campaign suspended 60,000 children have malnutrition symptoms, says health ministry Hamas delegation in Cairo for ...

Gaza’s health authorities have been forced to halt a polio vaccination campaign in the strip due to a lack of supplies, threatening the lives of 600,000 children. Israel’s humanitarian aid ...