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The complete 2026 guide to the NADRA polio certificate — who needs it, the PKR 100 fee, the 4-week to 12-month vaccination window, step-by-step NIMS registration, verification, and fixes for the most common errors.
June 2026 environmental surveillance results from Pakistan's sewage sampling network, in a year that had seen four wild poliovirus cases by September.
July 2025 environmental surveillance results from Pakistan's sewage sampling network, at the height of the transmission season in a year that closed with 31 cases.
Pakistan's first wild poliovirus case of 2025 was confirmed in Dera Ismail Khan, southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — the region that went on to dominate the year's case record.
The 74th confirmed wild poliovirus case marked the final total of Pakistan's 2024 outbreak year, and set the agenda for the programme's 2025 recovery.
Pakistan's second wild poliovirus case of 2025, confirmed early in a year that would close at 31 cases — a substantial improvement on 2024's 74, but still far from zero.
The third wild poliovirus case of 2025 confirmed by Pakistan's National Emergency Operations Centre, and why the child's vaccination history is the most important detail in any case investigation.
The third national immunisation round of 2025, in a year when Pakistan cut its case count from 74 to 31 — and why campaign sequencing through the year matters.
A further wild poliovirus case in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa took Pakistan's 2025 total to 14 at mid-year, in a year that would close at 31 cases.
A wild poliovirus case in Torghar, one of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's smallest and most remote districts, took Pakistan's 2025 total to 30.
Clear answers to the questions families, students and journalists ask most about poliovirus, the vaccine, campaign schedules and Pakistan's eradication programme.
Explore polio cases across all provinces of Pakistan (Sindh, Punjab, KP, Balochistan, GB, AJK). Analysis of historical peaks, low points, and current 2026 trends.
An 18th wild poliovirus case confirmed by Pakistan's National Emergency Operations Centre, and what each confirmation triggers on the ground.
Learn how the Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme tracks poliovirus. Details on environmental sewage monitoring, WHO laboratories, and high-risk core reservoirs.
How operational coordination between the Pakistani and Afghan polio programmes actually works — synchronised rounds, shared data, and vaccination of families in transit.
Scholarly endorsement of polio immunisation from senior Pakistani religious leadership, and how the programme uses it to answer objections raised in religious terms.
A national polio immunisation round targeting 35 million children under five — what an operation on this scale involves and how its success is actually judged.
A tribute to Shaheen Bibi and the female frontline workers of Pakistan's polio programme, whose access to households is the reason campaigns reach the children who need them most.
The National Emergency Operations Centre newsletter: campaign reporting, surveillance findings, field accounts and programme developments from Pakistan's polio eradication effort.
The National Emergency Action Plans, programme updates, surveillance bulletins and briefers published by Pakistan's polio eradication programme, and how to read them.
The National Emergency Operations Centre confirmed Pakistan's fourth wild poliovirus case of 2024, early in a year that would end with 74 cases — the country's worst total since 2019.
Wild poliovirus confirmed in a child from Hyderabad, Sindh — part of a year in which the province recorded 23 cases and urban transmission re-established itself.
Wild poliovirus confirmed in Quetta, the centre of Balochistan's long-standing polio reservoir and one of the few places where transmission has never been interrupted.
By the time Pakistan confirmed its 43rd wild poliovirus case of 2024, the year had already become the country's worst since 2019 — and the high transmission season was still under way.