UNICEF and partners plan to vaccinate more than 640,000 children under the age of 10 in the Gaza Strip against polio to stop the disease from spreading.
The U.N. is about to launch an ambitious campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza against polio, a disease that doctors fear has spread in the territory due to the massive humanitarian catastrophe unleashed by Israel's military offensive there.
The U.N. health agency and partners are launching a campaign starting Sunday to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children in Gaza against polio, an ambitious...
After a rare and relatively swift six weeks of talks, Israel and Hamas have agreed to three separate three-day pauses in fighting, starting Sunday in central Gaza, to allow for the vaccination of some 640,000 children against polio amid fears that the outbreak of the potentially fatal virus could sp…
The World Health Organization is launching a campaign to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children against polio after the first case of the disease in Gaza in 25 years was reported.
The WHO had announced a series of three-day "humanitarian pauses" in the fighting to administer the doses. Health care workers have for months warned of the reemergence of polio due to the dire humanitarian situation.
Palestinian children in Gaza will have access to polio vaccines this weekend as the UN rushes to reach families displaced and without access to healthcare following the detection of the virus in wastewater flowing through its war-ravaged streets.
A health official said a polio vaccination campaign had begun in Gaza on Saturday after the war-torn territory recorded its first case of the disease in a quarter of a century.Local health officials along with the UN and NGOs "are starting today the polio vaccination campaign in the central region",…
Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies have begun a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak in the territory that has been ravaged by the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
Ghadir Hajji rushed to a clinic on Sunday in hopes her five children would be among the first to get vaccinated against polio, which has re-emerged in war-ravaged Gaza. "They absolutely have to be vaccinated," she told AFP as the family waited in line for a vaccine drive announced after health offic…
JERUSALEM (AP) — A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus has begun, the Health Ministry said Saturday, as
Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies have begun a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip. They hope to prevent an outbreak in the territory that has been ravaged by the Israel-Hamas war.
JERUSALEM -- A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus has begun, the Health Ministry said Saturday, as Palestinians in the Hamas-governed enclave and the occupied West Bank reeled from Israel's military offensives.
