The World Health Organisation has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and called for an "immediate" vaccination campaign. Samples of the highly infectious virus were found in two healthy ...

Polio has staged a comeback elsewhere in Asia in recent years. Pakistan saw 74 cases of the disease last year, while Afghanistan recorded 24 cases. The WHO has also warned of an outbreak in war ...

Provincial Minister Khawaja Imran Nazir reaffirmed Punjab’s full support for the federal government’s health agenda. “Punjab ...

By Joyce ChimbiJoyce Nakhumicha was an all-round healthy baby, born in the planting season of 1977 in western Kenya. In the ...

While Bill Gates’ humanitarian credentials are not in doubt, his philanthropic endeavours are our business because of his outsized influence on public policy, particularly in Africa.

Pakistan efforts to eliminate polio have suffered another blow after a northern enclave reported its first case in seven ...