The latest polio vaccination campaign will launch across 14 provinces in Afghanistan.

A cross-border two-day meeting got underway in Islamabad with the aim of curbing the spread of polio between the Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Ministry of Public Health has announced that the polio vaccination campaign has started today in the provinces of Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar and Nuristan, and about 1.2 million children under the age of five are expected to be vaccinated in this campaign.

A new polio case in Behsud district of Nangarhar province was reported, bringing the total number of polio cases to four in the county in 2023.The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) announced.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has considered the registration of three positive cases of polio in Nangarhar province as a cause for concern and has announced the start of polio vaccination in eastern Afghanistan to prevent the spread of this disease to other parts of the country.

The first case of polio in Afghanistan in 2023 was registered. The country’s Ministry of Health reported.

The World Health Organization says that Afghanistan is only a few steps away from the complete eradication of polio.

The polio eradication programme in Afghanistan has made critical gains, but the job is far from finished.

The detection of poliovirus in wastewater samples from New York and London has sparked fears of a possible public health crisis.

More than one million Afghan children are expected to be vaccinated over the next few days in western Afghanistan.

Two fresh polio cases had been detected in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan province, the Ministry of Public Health said on Monday.