Countrywide anti-polio vaccination drive launched today
A seven-day polio vaccination campaign targeting 6.35 million children under five years of age kicked off across the country on Sunday.
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Sub-national polio vaccination drive begins in 23 provinces
A sub-national immunisation campaign for the eradication of poliovirus started in 23 provinces of Afghanistan on Monday. As part of the campaign, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) targets the vaccination of 6.4 million children below the age…
Nationwide anti-polio vaccination campaign launched
A four-day anti-polio vaccination campaign targeting 10 million children under five year age across Afghanistan kicked off on Monday, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNCIEF) said. UNICEF’s media official Kamal Shah Sayed told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
Polio vaccination drive begins in 15 provinces
A polio vaccination campaign was launched in 15 provinces of the country said on Monday, the Ministry of Public Health announced. Ministry spokesman Sharaf Zaman told Pajhwok Afghan News the first polio vaccination drive of 2023 had begun…
4-day polio vaccination drive kicks off in 22 provinces
The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) says a four-day anti-polio vaccination campaign was launched in 22 provinces of the country on Monday. MoPH said the polio vaccination drive would cover 194 districts in southern, southeastern, eastern, northern, western…
Countrywide anti-polio vaccination drive kicks off today
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says an anti-polio vaccination drive is all set to kick off today (Monday) in Afghanistan. The UNICEF Afghanistan tweeted: “Today, 23 May, marks the start of another polio vaccination drive…
Polio drive suspended after killing of vaccinators
The polio vaccination campaign has been temporarily suspended in eastern Nangarhar province after the killing of three female vaccinators in the province. The three female polio vaccinators were killed in two separate attacks by unknown armed men in…
Polio vaccination drives resume after months
KABUL – the last two polio-endemic countries in the workd --months after Covid-19 left 50 million children without their vaccine. In Afghanistan, polio immunisation programmes restarted in three provinces in July. A second campaign covering almost half of the…
Polio vaccination drive begins in 21 provinces from Monday
KABUL said on Sunday that nearly six million children would be covered by an anti-polio campaign in 198 districts of 21 provinces of the country. A statement from MoPH said the campaign would launch tomorrow (Monday till Friday) and would…
5-day polio vaccination campaign gets under way
KABUL announced. The five-day campaign targets over 8.5 million children under five years of age in 324 districts across the country, the ministry said in a statement. “We are concerned that following the long pause in polio vaccination in parts…
Taliban ban polio vaccination in Spin Boldak town
Taliban militants have banned anti-polio vaccination in Spin Boldak district of southern Kandahar province, an official said on Thursday. A credible source at the provincial Public Health Department told Pajhwok Afghan News that the Taliban had warned anti-polio…