The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have initiated discussions that will ...

Overland was a reporter and public health writer in Asia for more than a decade. She is currently an editor at NPR. My son was 5 years old when he climbed out of bed and landed on the floor. He was ...

In September of 2022, New York’s governor declared polio a state disaster emergency, and Susan Schoenbeck knows too well the pain and stigma that come with that disease. The author of “Polio Girl: It ...

Political instability and migration back and forth along the porous, rugged border between the two countries has made it difficult to reach every child with the polio vaccine, the only form of ...

UNICEF-supported community health workers play a key role as Pakistan strives for a polio-free future for every child. Widowed at 28 in Pakistan, Reshma (name changed to protect her privacy) became a ...

Depending on how young you are, your mother may remember polio. Your grandmother, though, would likely shudder at the mere mention of the word, which for years evoked images of iron lungs, of ...

Americans who plan to visit any of the 32 countries on the CDC’s polio list in coming weeks and months should take extra precautions before their trips to protect against polio. The U.S. Department of ...

Regarding the Dec. 14 article “RFK Jr. ally petitioned FDA on polio vaccine’s approval”: Polio used to be a fearsome adversary. In 1952, the peak year for infections in the United States, polio struck ...

The Nigeria Football Federation and the United Nations Children’s Fund have commenced talks that will lead to a Memorandum of Understanding on partnership regarding a wide range of campaigns aimed at ...