- Pakistan launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year, aiming to inoculate 44 million children under 5 years old, as the country nears eradicating the disease.
- Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul-Haq-Kakar urged parents to cooperate with the 350,000 health workers going door-to-door to administer vaccine drops. This campaign follows previous attacks on vaccine providers and police assigned to protect them.
- Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries where polio continues to threaten children, and the recent cases reported this year were from the border region with Afghanistan.
Comparison:
- “Left leaning sources” emphasize Pakistan’s efforts and previous successes against polio.
- “Center leaning sources” note the campaign’s security measures and parental collaboration.
- “Right leaning sources” point out past attacks on vaccine providers.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year Monday in an effort to inoculate 44 million children under the age of 5 amid signs the country was close to eradicating the disease.
The government deployed police and security forces to ensure the safety of the inoculation drive workers.
Vaccine providers and the police assigned to protect them have been attacked during past anti-polio campaigns, which militants falsely claimed were a Western conspiracy to sterilize children.
Pakistan has registered two new polio cases since January, a blow to the goal of eradicating a disease that affects the nervous system and can cause severe paralysis in children.
Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan are the only two countries in the world where polio continues to threaten the health and well-being of children.
The cases so far this year were reported from northwestern Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, where the Taliban rulers last week launched a four-day polio vaccine drive targeted at children under 5.
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