New Delhi, June 2 (ANI): As part of HP's continued commitment to making healthcare accessible to people living in remote parts of India, HP today announced the availability of a virtual health technology platform that will enable healthcare professionals to virtually conduct specialist psychiatric consultations with patients.

Islamabad, May 30 (ANI): The United Nations has condemned the killing of a polio worker in Peshawar and recent attacks on polio teams in the country.

New Delhi, May 18 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has been conferred with the Polio Eradication Champion Award by Rotary International.

New Delhi, May 7 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) has removed India from the list of countries with active endemic wild poliovirus transmission.

London, Apr.26 (ANI): Microsoft founder and a business magnate, Bill Gates has pledged to donate 1.8 billion dollars for the cause of eradicating all polio types.

Islamabad, Apr. 19 (ANI): Over 1.3 million children in Pakistan have missed polio vaccination due to the worsening law, order and security situation during a three-day national polio immunisation campaign which started on April 15.

Karachi, Apr. 16 (ANI): Pakistan cricket all-rounder Shahid Afridi will take part in the Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) campaign to motivate people to cast their votes in the May 11 general elections.

Islamabad, Apr 15 (ANI): Over 7.6 million children in Pakistani province of Sindh will be targeted by over 21,000 polio vaccination teams as part of a nationwide three-day immunisation campaign.

London, Apr. 12 (ANI): An ambitious global plan to eradicate polio, a disease that once paralyzed and killed millions, has the backing of more than 400 eminent scientists from 80 countries.

Islamabad, Apr. 10 (ANI): A polio team was attacked by gunmen in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province's on Wednesday, killing one policeman and injuring another.

Islamabad, Mar 30 (ANI): Some 240,000 children in Pakistan have missed UN-sponsored polio vaccinations due to security concerns in the country's tribal regions, a top WHO official has said.

Washington, Feb 1 (ANI): Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates, who is trying to save the world by reducing child death rates and eliminating polio, has said that he is less 'less geekier' that Steve Jobs.

Washington, Jan. 30 (ANI): Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said polio could be eradicated throughout the world by 2018.

Islamabad, Jan. 22 (ANI): Pakistani health officials have called for infants leaving the country to be issued polio vaccinations at airports after virus samples linked to a southern Pakistani city were discovered in Egypt.

New Delhi, jan.20 (ANI): Over 80,000 children will be taking part in the national pulse polio immunisation programme on Sunday.

Islamabad, Jan 6(ANI): Cricketers from both India and Pakistan have come forward to show their support to a campaign against polio and they will be sporting ribbons with 'Bowl Out Polio' inscribed on them when they come out for the third and final one day international in New Delhi on Sunday.

Islamabad, Dec. 23 (ANI): The daughter of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has defiantly vowed that the country's anti-polio campaign would continue, despite the killing of nine health workers by extremists opposed to the vaccination programme.

Islamabad, Dec 22 (ANI): Over 3.5 million children in Pakistan missed out on polio vaccination this week as the campaigns were overshadowed by the deaths of nine immunisation workers, a UN official has said.

Islamabad, Dec. 21 (ANI): The All Pakistan Ulema Council (APUC) has issued a decree (fatwa) declaring the killing of anti-polio health workers by terrorists as 'un-Islamic'.

Peshawar, Dec. 20 (ANI): Another member of the UN backed anti-polio teams has died, bringing the three-day toll to nine, an official has said.

Islamabad, Dec. 19 (ANI): Reacting to the recent killings of polio health workers in the country, an editorial in a Pakistani daily has said that the only solution to end this violence is to eliminate the Taliban so that their narrative, too, is destroyed.

Islamabad, Dec. 19 (Xinhua-ANI): Three more health workers were killed on Wednesday in four incidents of firing on polio- eradication teams in Pakistan's northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, bringing the death toll to nine in such incidents over the last two days, local officials said.

Islamabad, Dec. 19 (ANI): The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF have vowed to continue their polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan despite the killing of six vaccinators by gunmen, but urged the government to do its "utmost to protect health workers".

Peshawar, Dec. 18 (ANI): Five health workers on an anti-polio drive were shot dead by unidentified militants in a string of attacks in Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said, raising fears for the safety of workers immunising children against the crippling disease.

Islamabad, Dec. 3 (ANI): The outbreak of an unknown strain of polio virus in Qilla Abdullah and Pishin districts in Balochistan has set alarm bells ringing and has prompted the centre to ask the provincial government to launch an anti-polio campaign in the region within 30 days.