The World Health Organization says wild poliovirus type 2 was eradicated in 1999, but the deadly disease has been detected ...

RURAL communities in Papua New Guinea will see its health services strengthened through the Youth With A Misson Medical Ship.

PAPUA New Guinea has taken a major step in the fight against polio, with the arrival of more than 4.6 million life-saving ...

Two cases of poliovirus type 2 have been detected in children who live just over 500 kilometres north-east of Queensland's Cape York, and a "national emergency response" has been triggered by ...

Papua New Guinea's health minister, Elias Kapavore, says polio vaccines are set to arrive in the country next week. The World ...

Papua New Guinea's community volunteers provide essential services and health promotion, but the absence of financial support ...

Distrust of the COVID vaccine in PNG has spread to a general distrust of all vaccinations, according to local health professionals. “COVID vaccine resistance has translated into the hesitancy of ...

Undp Papua New Guinea/via Reuters Dr. Nathaniel Hupert, an associate professor of population health sciences and of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, said the risk of malaria is ...

The sessions were developed as part of our response to the humanitarian consequences of tribal fighting in PNG. It is particularly important here because the mental health system is very weak or even ...

Papua New Guinea’s Chief Justice, Sir Gibbs Salika, has been flown to Australia for advanced medical care after experiencing ...