More than 7,000 children in areas under Taliban’s control are likely to be deprived of anti-polio vaccination in northeastern Badakhshan province, local officials said on Monday, a day after a nationwide anti-polio drive was launched. Badakhshan public health…
A new polio case has been diagnosed in an 18-months-old baby girl in southern Kandahar province, an official said Thursday. Kamal Shah, UNICEF’s public relations head for Kandahar, told Pajhwok Afghan News the new polio case in…
A three-day polio vaccination campaign targeting overall 208,000 children under the age of five years was launched in western Farah province on Monday. Local officials and representatives from the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and…
KABUL soon. The polio high council, which includes government and donors to address planning, implementation, and coordination strategy, held a meeting with participation of representatives from line ministries, supportive departments, international partners and donor agencies in Kabul on Tuesday. Dr.…
Unidentified gunmen have torched a polio vaccination campaign centre in the Batikot district of eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Monday. Attaullah Khogyani, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the gunmen also damaged vaccination items at the…
Refugees from the North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan are preventing a polio vaccination campaign in southeastern Paktika province, officials said on Saturday. Dr. Mohammad Noor, director of polio vaccine campaign in Paktika, told Pajhwok Afghan News that…
The arrival of refugees from Pakistan director said on Sunday. Dr. Najeebullah Kamawal said this while addressing a ceremony on the eve of a three-day polio vaccination campaign here. He said the ceremony was held a day earlier…
KABUL (MoPH) said on Sunday. In a statement, the Public Health Ministry said it along with its partners would respond urgently to prevent more children from being paralyzed. The statement added Bismillah, a 24-month child, was diagnosed positive on December 16,…
Local public health officials on Monday said no positive polio case has been recorded in eastern Nangarhar province during the past 14 months. Nangarhar public health director, Dr. Najibullah Kamawal, said this while launching an anti-polio campaign in…
The second round of a nationwide anti-polio winter campaign targeting 9.5 million children below the age of five years began on Monday. The campaign was launched by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) in cooperation with UNICEF and…
Development projects would not be executed in areas of eastern Laghman province where polio vaccine were denied to children, the governor warned on Monday. Sarhadi Zwak, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News Governor Abdul Jabbar Naeemi issued…
The Afghan government is ‘passionately committed’ to eradicating polio from the country, a top Afghan health official said Thursday. The public health minister acknowledged insecurity, inaccessibility and unacceptability posed major hurdles to address the challenge of polio eradication effort.…
Polio drops would be given to children earlier missed in previous campaigns in various areas of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Monday. The routine immunisation is carried out in all districts of Nangarhar, but some villages…
A third polio case has been detected in eastern Kunar province, an official of public health department in the remote province said on Wednesday. Public health director Dr. Ihsanullah Fazli told Pajhwok Afghan News that Zahidullah son of…
A second polio case has been detected in eastern Kunar province, the public health director said on Saturday. Dr. Ihsanullah Fazli told Pajhwok Afghan News the one-year-old child, son of Abdul Wali, belonged to Wand village of Shultan…
Despite receiving polio drops seven times, a child has contracted polio in the Nawzad district of southern Helmand province, an official said on Saturday. Public Health area of Nawzad district. “The child had been administered polio drops seven…
The governor on Tuesday asked UNICEF and Bill Gates Foundation officials to hire a permanent taskforce for supervising anti-polio vaccination campaigns in eastern Nangarhar province. As many as 28 polio cases have been detected in Nangarhar so far…
KABUL and will be 100 percent successful in this regard. The president was speaking to the governors of Kunar, Kandahar, Helmand, Uruzgan, Nimroz, Farah, Faryab and Herat provinces through a video conference, a statement from the president’s office said. The…
An Afghan delegation will arrive in Pakistan on Sunday to monitor an anti-polio campaign beginning in Pakistan on Jan 11, a media report said on Friday. Afghanistan that are still struggling to eliminate the poliovirus. Children are administered…
Unknown gunmen opened fire at two female polio vaccinators on Monday noon in the capital of southern Kandahar province, killing one and injuring another, an official said. The incident took place in Largo Ganj area in the…
The Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday said that polio cases had declined in the country generally, but they had increased in eastern Nangarhar province. On the first day of the polio vaccination campaign in Nangarhar, the general…
Thousands of children could not be administered polio drops due to insecurity in southeastern Paktika province, residents said on Friday. Syed Gul, a resident of Waza Khwa district, told Pajhwok Afghan News thousands of children were deprived of…
As many as 78,000 children could be missed out on anti-polio vaccination campaign in eastern Nangarhar and Kunar provinces due to security concerns, an official said on Sunday. Nangarhar is the only province in the eastern zone where…
Five new polio cases have emerged in the Shinwari Zone and Sherzad districts of eastern Nangarhar province, the provincial public health director said on Sunday. Najibullah Kamawal was talking at a ceremony marking the launch of a three-day…
