The federal government has committed to expand the country's vaccination programme which will reduce the country's child mortality rates - the second highest in the world. Read more »

New polio cases have been recorded in Unguwan Biri of Bangi ward in Mariga Local Government Area of the state. Read more »

Chinese actress Yao Chen has hailed the courage of Somali refugees living in neighbouring Ethiopia who were forced to flee over on-going fighting and famine. Read more »

A door-to-door campaign aims to vaccinate more than 111 million children against polio in 20 African countries in just four days in a bid to eradicate the disease from the ... Read more »

Poor-quality emergency immunization campaigns and low routine polio immunization coverage are helping the polio virus to spread in Chad. Read more »

At least five million children have been vaccinated against the disease during an emergency campaign in more than 100 high-risk districts. Read more »

Led by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the fight against polio is 99 percent of the way towards complete eradication. For those who live with the disease, breakdancer B-Boy ... Read more »

World Polio Day is a day set aside globally to assess the significance and success of the oral polio vaccine, OPV. It is also a day the world spotlights the importance of global ... Read more »

The Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative says the persistence of polio is a "global health emergency". Despite rising spending on the campaign, ... Read more »

After 100 cases of the wild polio virus were registered in 2010, DR Congo has stepped up a campaign that aims to vaccinate 23 million children under the age of five across the ... Read more »