Dawn (Pakistan): Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication National Coordinator Rana Mohammad Safdar said the virus has been detected in Peshawar and other cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well. “This shows that there is a threat because of the virus, which is travelling with people from Afghanistan to Pakistan, so we need to ensure our children’s
IANS: During the campaign, which is supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), vitamin A capsules will also be given to over 8.9 million children aged between six months and five years, Xinhua news agency reported. The drive was launched after a fresh polio case was detected in Afghanistan in
Carol Pearson VOA News July 18, 2018 WASHINGTON — The move to end polio started in 1985 with Rotary International. At that time, polio paralyzed hundreds of thousands of children every year. There is still no cure, but two scientists developed vaccines against the virus in the 1950’s. Dr. Jonas Salk produced one with an inactivated
Pajhwok: Health official in central Uruzgan provinces say Taliban insurgents have banned a polio vaccination campaign and warned the department to avoid administrating the drops to children… Bashir, a resident of Tarinkot City, hoped the Taliban did not create hurdles against health services to public. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 2, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A new round of a polio immunization campaign went into action Monday in Afghanistan amid concerns insurgent bans could possibly deprive hundreds of thousands of children from receiving the vaccine. During the five-day campaign, officials say, about 52,000 Afghan vaccinators will visit 6.4 million children under the
Global Polio Eradication Initiative: Every child needs to be vaccinated to protect them from poliovirus. To achieve this, detailed plans are prepared for vaccination teams. The aim is to find each child under 5 years of age – in Afghanistan, that is around 10 million altogether – and to reach them with vaccines. Click here to
IRIN: This week, Afghan authorities launched a new round of polio immunisations – the second nationwide campaign this year. They hope to reach more than 9.9 million children across the country with oral vaccines before the start of the polio “high season” in the warmer summer months, when the virus is most infectious. The front line of the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 10, 2018 Pakistan has launched a nationwide polio-vaccination drive to try to reach 38.7 million children and eradicate the paralyzing and potentially deadly virus in one of the last countries on Earth where it is found. Nearly 260,000 volunteers and workers fanned out across Pakistan in an effort to vaccinate
VOA News Mohammad Habibzada February 4, 2018 WASHINGTON — Widespread unrest in Afghanistan has kept thousands of children from receiving polio vaccines, Afghan officials claim. “During each polio vaccination drive, we target about 6 million children,” Mir Jan Rasekh, head of the Afghanistan Polio Eradication Public Awareness Program, told VOA. “But due to unrest, fighting, and
Ayaz Gul VOA News / December 17, 2017 ISLAMABAD — The United Nations is calling on all parties in the Afghan conflict to facilitate health workers in conducting Monday’s urgent polio vaccination campaign in a volatile southern district with the highest number of polio virus cases of any district in the world. U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Toby