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 campaign to wipe out the ...

If you are below the age of 60, the global quest to eradicate polio has accompanied most of your adult life. During that time, the naturally occurring strain of the virus, also known as wild-type ...

Now is the time to pull through on efforts to rid the world of polio once and for all — or continue managing it through costly outbreak responses, UNICEF argues in a new call to action. Support UNICEF ...

Amid funding cuts and political barriers, researchers are asking whether the campaign can ever succeed, and what to do next. Ten years ago, the virus that causes polio seemed to be on its way to ...

While polio may seem like a disease of the past, its eradication is still unfinished business—and one of the most ambitious global health undertakings in history. In honor of World Polio Day on ...

As humanitarian funding cuts devastate health institutions, experts fear a foe long vanquished from much of the world is on ...

October 24 marks World Polio Day. The vaccination against poliomyelitis is considered one of the greatest achievements in preventive medicine. It has prevented millions of cases of paralysis and saved ...