When states prohibit parents from opting their kids out of vaccines for religious, philosophical or other nonmedical reasons, communities stay better protected against infectious diseases.

Dr Husaini Yakubu, Executive Secretary of the Zamfara Primary Healthcare Board, has reaffirmed the state government's commitment and that of other partners to eradicating polio in the state.

When four states between 2015 and 2021 stopped allowing parents to opt their children out of receiving routine vaccines ...

In 1970, before the mumps vaccine was widely available and mandatory, I contracted them while my family and I were living in Afghanistan,” writes Leigh Selby in a Guest Commentary.

Access to safe, effective vaccines aligns with the conservative values of personal freedom, individual choice, and medical ...

Kano State Primary Health Care Management Board (KSPHCMB) has confirmed the discovery of four new variants of the polio virus in the state, warning that unless vaccination is routinely sustained, the ...

Florida’s announcement that it would scrap public school vaccine mandates next year hit Elizabeth particularly hard. Her ...

Vaccine policy nearly tore the nation apart during the pandemic. But solid majorities of Georgians, of all parties and age groups, support a mandate for parents to have their children vaccinated ...

One lawsuit, underway since February, has sought to compel President Trump to honor Congress’s vision for foreign aid. It ...

African countries have an important opportunity to align the strategy with their own health security agendas.

How will the Global Polio Eradication Initiative deal with the changes made by the Trump administration at a crucial time in ...

ISLAMABAD: The Wor­­­ld Health Organisa­tion (WHO) has announced that it is partnering with the Pakistan government to train ...