Hamid Jafari: Over the last decade, the polio eradication effort has gone through multiple ups and downs. Polio is an epidemic-prone infection and disease. If you don’t eradicate it, you will ...

“Pakistan and Afghanistan have never been this close to reaching the goal of eradicating wild poliovirus (WPV1) concurrently,” said Dr. Hamid Jafari, the World Health Organization’s director ...

Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan are the only two polio-endemic nations, reporting 49 and 23 cases respectively, ... a third of the provinces are infected,” Hamid Jafari, ...

Hamid Jafari, the WHO director for the Eastern Mediterranean, said last week the forced repatriation of Afghans from Pakistan was a major setback to polio eradication and has led to a “massive ...

Cases have been rising in Afghanistan and Pakistan — and global health specialists are worried that ... There's no clear threshold for herd immunity in Pakistan, according to WHO's Hamid Jafari.

Hamid Jafari, director of polio eradication for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, told the event that until 2020, about 13 families of wild poliovirus had spread across the neighboring countries.

Dr Hamid Jafari, WHO's regional director of polio eradication was cited by Al-Jazeera as saying that the challenge exists in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

“This is the best epidemiological opportunity these two countries have had concurrently,” to stop wild poliovirus from circulating, says Hamid Jafari, director of polio eradication at the WHO.

Authorities in one Pakistan province are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: ... “Coercion is counterproductive,” Dr Hamid Jafari said.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Dr. Hamid Jafari, director of Polio Eradication for the WHO's Eastern Mediterranean region, about the effort to administer some 600,000 vaccines in Gaza.