International leaders and philanthropists, including Bill Gates, announced $1.9 billion Monday in funding to advance polio ...

Bill Gates said the goal is to eradicate polio globally by 2029. The campaign is within about $440 million of what is needed ...

The world nearly wiped out polio — now a deadly curveball is putting that victory in doubt. A massive $1.9B plan is racing to ...

FILE - A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File) LONDON (AP) — Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world ...

Amid humanitarian aid cuts, the global leader has taken the initiative to come forward and contribute to health facilities, ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global ...

[BENGALURU] Global leaders pledged US$1.9 billion to advance polio eradication on Monday (Dec 8), accelerating efforts to ...

I am one of only two members of Congress who are polio survivors. In 1954, my father was a pediatrician in Memphis, Tennessee. As part of the worldwide effort to stop polio, he was given a limited ...

United Nations officials on Wednesday hailed limited pauses in the fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow children's polio vaccinations as rare moments of hope in the nearly yearlong war in Gaza.

“My dream is for Africa to be totally eradicated of polio. Africa, it is our turn to give a red card to polio,” said Fabrice ...

Since 1988, cases of polio have fallen by more than 99%, and many observers predict that the disease could be eradicated within the next three years. However, eradication isn’t the same as extinction, ...

Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world as part of a decadeslong effort by the World Health Organization and partners to wipe out the disease. But polio is one of the world’s most infectious ...