Polio Eradication: UNICEF, WHO aim to fight virus by 2012
UNICEF and WHO representatives visit parts of city to determine how to eradicate the disease in Pakistan by 2012.
Polio Eradication: UNICEF, WHO aim to fight virus by 2012
The two organisations are working within the Global Polio Partnership and with the federal and provincial governments to vaccinate every child in Pakistan against the highly contagious virus. Thirty-seven cases have been reported so far this year, while 18 cases were reported in 2010.
Eleven cases were reported in Sindh, 15 in FATA, eight in Baluchistan, and three in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 18th, 2011.
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