National polio laboratories will help Africa in its final push towards eradicating the disease, writes Chikwe Ihekweazu, outgoing acting director for WHO Africa.

Polio-Free Afghanistan urged parents returning from Pakistan to vaccinate their children at border points to prevent the ...

On Aug. 27, the Rutland Daily Herald reported that doctors believed an epidemic of cerebral meningitis, spinal meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis had hit the city and surrounding area. Over the ...

It’s her family that won’t affirm her having polio.

Kenya is set to benefit from a US$450 million (Sh 58.5 billion) funding boost aimed at accelerating global polio eradication ...

I was born in 1950 during the polio epidemic. Polio hit our extended family so I watched how my older cousin struggled with braces and crutches.

Pediatricians like me are worried that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisers will make it harder for children to get the ...

Pate was named TIME100 Health 2025 for the effective blending of global health knowledge with local action. He earned the ...

In a decisive move to counter these escalating threats and inject renewed vigor into the final stages of eradication, Rotary and the Gates Foundation today announced a substantial joint commitment of ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America. Over the next century, vaccines virtually wiped out ...

The move will likely solidify the foundation’s outsized role in global health, particularly as the United States, the United ...