カテゴリー: Polio
Fears of surge in malnutrition, measles, malaria and polio as 206 World Health Organization facilities forced to close ‘I begged them, my daughter was dying’: how Taliban male escort rules are killing mothers and babiesMore than 200 health facilities r…
Regime suspends polio campaign across Afghanistan over security concerns and women’s role in vaccination driveAfghanistan is at risk of a polio outbreak, health officials have warned, after the Taliban suspended the vaccination campaign over security f…
After no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakistan and AfghanistanThe world is “tantalisingly close” to eradicating polio – with no confirmed cases of wild polio anywhere so far this year. …
New law in Sindh introduces ‘extraordinary measures’ to ensure vaccination of children against range of infectious diseasesParents in Pakistan who refuse to get their children vaccinated against infectious diseases could be jailed or fined under a new …
‘Without a wheelchair my life would be useless’: the woman changing the lives of disabled Pakistanis
Zahida Qureshi, who became disabled after contracting polio, was forced to crawl around her school as a child. Now, her organisation gives away thousands of custom wheelchairsFor 12 years, Zahida Qureshi travelled to and from school in Pakistan each da…
Investigation launched as first cases in a year blamed on vaccine refusal fuelled by clerics and falsification of records by parents Pakistan’s polio eradication campaign is in disarray after an alarming jump in cases last week. Eight polio cases have …
As the virus returns, one frontline worker tells of her daily trials and triumphs in the fight to eradicate it for everSaima Hanif, 32, is one of Pakistan’s frontline health workers, part of a network of volunteers and low-paid women who are key in th…
First case in a year sparks fears of new outbreak despite success of national programme to wipe out the diseasePakistan has confirmed its first case of polio after more than a year, damaging the country’s hopes of eradicating the virus. Health officia…
The WHO and Unicef campaign will restart after three years, and the hardliners say they will assist and allow frontline female staffAfghanistan will restart nationwide polio vaccinations after more than three years, as the new Taliban government agreed…
Instead of cutting the aid budget – including 95% from the plan to stamp out the disease – Britain should take a global leadDespite the Covid pandemic, there have been just two recorded cases of wild polio in 2021 – in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the two…
Rise in cases feared as murders halt campaigns and leave many women too afraid to workGul Meena Hotak was on her regular rounds, going door-to-door giving polio vaccinations in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, when she heard gunshots.The 22-year-o…
Murders of two volunteers and a nurse come one day after relaunch of national vaccination campaignTwo female volunteers and a nurse working door to door to vaccinate children against polio were shot dead by gunmen in two separate incidents in the Afgha…
As activists target female vaccinators, Pakistan remains one of only two countries worldwide not to have eradicated polioNasreen Bibi never saw the face of her killer. The 44-year-old had just finished work for the day, vaccinating children against pol…
We are tantalisingly close to eradicating the disease. Things may slip backwards because of science, thugs and exponents of ignorancePolio arrives, if it announces itself at all, as a high temperature. Or a sore throat. Maybe a headache, or an upset st…