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India has been certified Polio free by the Regional Polio Certification Commission on the 27th March 2014

The NGWF, rising from its retreat held in Bauchi, resolved to intensify public sensitisation to the HPV vaccine to combat the spread of cervical cancer.

Special pulse polio campaign launched; to run for 3 days in 16 districts including Bhopal

PUTRAJAYA: The government has spent almost RM2.8 trillion on national immunisation programmes for Malaysians since 1957, says Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba. He said this was proof of the government’s commitment to increase the level of protection for the people and achieve herd immunity to curb the spread of diseases such as polio and tuberculosis. In his speech at the opening of the national-level Immunisation Day at the ministry here, he said the immunisation programmes that had ...

National Vaccination Day | (Pic: Internet) National Vaccination Day, which falls on March 16 every year, assumes more importance and meaning in the light of people queuing up for their Coronavirus vaccine shots. But before we dwell into the future, heres a little flashback. Also known as Immunisation Day, National Vaccination Day was first observed in 1995 because this was the day when the first polio vaccination was administered in India. And it was in the year 2014 that India was declared pol...