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02/07/2018
12:50
Several Afghan children work in a brick kiln in Herat, Afghanistan. EFE / Archive
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Kabul, July 2 (EFE) .- Nearly 1.3 million Afghan children will not be able to receive their doses of polio vaccine in a door-to-door campaign that began today. 39 throughout the country due to the ban on insurgents to this initiative.
During the campaign, some 6.5 million children under five will be vaccinated, but many others will lose their chance in this country where polio is endemic, largely -600,000 in the province of Helmand (south) and 360,000 others. in Uruzgan (south), the Ministry of Public Health said in a statement.
The number has increased significantly compared to some 100,000 people who had missed the dose in previous rounds, due to a recent Taliban veto in these two troubled regions.
"Armed opponents do not allow door-to-door vaccination campaigns in the provinces of Helmand and Uruzgan, so we will vaccinate a large number of children," said the director. National Center for Emergency Operations at Efe. against polio, Maiwand Ahmadzai.
The source said that, nevertheless, they are negotiating with the insurgency to allow vaccination in parts of these regions of Afghanistan, which has registered 14 cases of polio in 2017 and nine to eight. now this year.
The insecurity in Afghanistan and the continuous movement of people between this country and neighboring Pakistan, the only two where polio is still endemic, are the main challenges to eradicate the disease in Afghan territory.
The Afghan government and the World Health Organization have conducted four door-to-door vaccination campaigns in 2017, reaching some 9.9 million children and four regional vaccinations to vaccinate another 6 million in districts. special. risk
EFE
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