PAKISTAN HEALTH POLIO VACCINATION

Polio vaccination campaign in Peshawar

epa10997407 A policeman looks on as a health worker marks a child's hand after administering polio vaccine drops during a door-to-door vaccination campaign, in Peshawar, Pakistan, 27 November 2023. Polio is a highly infectious and incurable disease that primarily affects children under the age of five. A five-day nationwide polio vaccination campaign kicked off in Pakistan on 27 November that along with Afghanistan is one of the remaining polio endemic countries in the world. 'Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance remains a core tool for polio eradication in Pakistan. While the global standard is a minimum of two non-polio AFP cases per 100,000 population below 15 years, Pakistan has systematically increased this rate from 6.8 in 2015 to more than 13.4 as of June 2021,' the World Health Organization (WHO) informs on its website. EPA/BILAWAL ARBAB

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