It marked the latest in a series of attacks on polio vaccination charity workers.

ISLAMABAD Early this month, tragedy struck Pakistan s polio eradication campaign once again with the killing of two more polio workers and a policeman on patrol with the vaccination teams.

A recent smear campaign aimed at discrediting polio vaccination, in which several MPs publicly took part, has complicated matters further.

In response to the reappearance of polio in the Sudan in 2004, four mass polio vaccination campaigns were carried out in Darfur, reaching 100 per cent of the target under 15 population.

I urge the parties involved to allow humanitarian actors, in particular the polio vaccination campaigns, unhindered access to the populations in need.

But, thanks to intensive vaccination campaigns, there were only 58 cases of polio in the entire country last year down 70 from 2011.

The increase in 2004 was the result of a polio epidemic that started in parts of Nigeria where vaccination had stopped in 2003.

Two rounds of vaccination acceleration campaigns for DPT3, oral polio vaccine (OPV) and measles were conducted, targeting 145,000 children under 1 year old.

Like a vaccination.

As of the mid 1980 s, there were more than 300,000 cases of polio per year worldwide, despite the disease s virtual elimination in the richest countries, where vaccination was routine.

Given the progress made in expanding vaccination programs in recent years, this revelation represents a unique opportunity for the global community, particularly as we begin to close the lid on polio.

He advocates for vaccination.

(b) Strengthening vaccination programmes

Vaccination according to location

Vaccination coverage 80 per cent.

End polio now.

Vaccination programs have also been disrupted.

Vaccination programmes in Latvia are hindered by the fact that not all schools ensure systematic vaccination of students.

(d) To stop attacks on sites that usually have a significant presence of children as well as during the days of tranquillity which had been agreed upon for the purpose of ensuring peaceful polio vaccination campaigns

Pakistan s Polio Tipping Point

Umar also has polio.

Yes. He had polio.

Consequently, Nigeria had adopted a poverty alleviation strategy that offered credit to rural women and universal vaccination against polio, measles and meningitis, as well as the distribution of insecticide treated mosquito nets to children in rural areas.

Resources are needed to conduct outreach vaccination.

We have paper forms for vaccination surveys.

Pakistan s Winnable War on Polio

This is the polio virus.

This is a polio vaccine.

I was diagnosed with polio.

Multiple vaccination campaigns have successfully averted major epidemics.

Children's vaccination and first aid are also provided.

Main indicators regarding the rate of vaccination coverage

In 1832, the federal government of the United States established a smallpox vaccination program for Native Americans ( The Indian Vaccination Act of 1832 ).

Mass immunization has largely eliminated polio.

Targeting anti polio efforts in Pakistan

We're not trying to control polio.

With polio it's almost completely different.

Blindness, polio early detection, early response.

The campaigns focus particularly on vaccination and personal hygiene.

Special attention was given to vaccination of young children.

Then the developing countries applied soap and water, vaccination.

In addition, it supplied vaccination materials to various sites across the country, enabling the immunization of 970,000 children under five years of age against polio, 1,500,000 children between six months and 15 years of age against measles and 230,000 people against yellow fever.

No fear, no agony. Polio puff, gone.

Polio is still a devastating, explosive disease.

Now giving the polio vaccine is simple.