First campaign in three years
The campaign will be the first in more than three years aimed at all children in Afghanistan, with a total of 9.9 million children under the age of five, and more than 3 million in remote and previously inaccessible areas.
“This decision will allow us to make a giant stride in the efforts to eradicate polio,” Hervé Ludovic De Lys, UNICEF Representative in Afghanistan, said in a statement.
“To eliminate polio completely, every child in every household across Afghanistan must be vaccinated, and with our partners, this is what we are setting out to do,” he said.
Afghanistan’s new rulers had also committed to “providing security and assuring the safety of all health workers across the country, which is an essential prerequisite for the implementation of polio vaccination campaigns,” the UN said.
Source: Afghanistan to start polio vaccination drive next month | News | DW | 18.10.2021
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