The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) had been detected ...

The Gaza Hamas-run Health Ministry claimed to have identified the first case of polio in the Gaza Strip on Friday. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a humanitarian ceasefire in ...

At 78th World Health Assembly, Tedros says 'Member States will consider, and hopefully adopt, the WHO Pandemic Agreement.

Polio has broken out before in Papua New Guinea, with the most recent incident happening in June of 2018, after a reported 20 ...

Younis R. Awadallah, a doctor who was once UNICEF’s top public health specialist in Gaza, had worked through four previous ...

Israel's total siege of Gaza is entering its third month. Doctors and aid workers said they are seeing malnourished children ...

Gaza's Health Ministry said a United Nations-backed polio vaccination campaign meant to target over 600,000 children had been suspended, putting the enclave at risk of the revival of a crippling ...

The Israeli military launched one of the biggest waves of strikes in Gaza for weeks on Tuesday, residents said, and health officials issued a new warning that healthcare faced total collapse from ...

An Israeli blockade on the entry of polio vaccines into Gaza leaves the lives of over 600,000 Palestinian children at risk, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. “The blocking of the entry of ...

Gaza’s health authorities have been forced to halt a polio vaccination campaign in the strip due to a lack of supplies, threatening the lives of 600,000 children. Israel’s humanitarian aid ...

Israel Steps up Gaza Strikes; Polio Vaccination Halted by Blockade By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - The Israeli military launched one of the biggest waves of strikes in Gaza for weeks on ...