Polio progress |
PAKISTAN’S latest sub-national polio campaign offers encouraging evidence that the country can still push back against a virus that has proved stubbornly difficult to eliminate. Reaching more than 18.6m children across 79 high-risk districts and achieving 98pc coverage is no small feat. Behind it was the dedication of over 163,000 front-line workers who went door to door, often in difficult conditions, to ensure that children received life-saving protection. Particularly noteworthy was the effort to track down children who........