The Polio-Free Afghanistan organization said Sunday it prepares to roll out a brand-new campaign from Monday across various regions of the country.
The company did not however define the regions nor how many children they will reach.This comes after the World Health Organization reported on Thursday that three new wild polio cases were reported in the week from Pakistan.No new cases were reported last week in Afghanistan.
WHO has actually mentioned that the overall number of wild polio cases in Afghanistan last year are at 25 and Pakistan reported 73.
This was against the overall case count of 12 in 2023 &-- 6 in Afghanistan and six in Pakistan.
Last month, the Ministry of Public Health announced that they had started a polio vaccination project in a number of provinces of the nation in coordination with worldwide organizations.According to a press release from the ministry, a minimum of 5.3 million children under the age of 5 got the polio vaccine in 11 provinces of the country.Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only 2 nations on the planet where polio has actually not yet been eliminated and is still claiming the lives of children.
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