Afghan polio vaccine drive in trouble after three female medics killed
About 70,000 staff, including vaccinators, are involved in implementing polio campaign, of which about 40% are women
Reuters
April 01, 2021
Men pray in front of the coffin of one of three female polio vaccination health workers who were shot and killed by unknown gunmen at two separate locations in Jalalabad, Afghanistan March 30, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS
JALALABAD/
KABUL:
The killing of three female polio vaccine providers in Afghanistan this week has forced aid agencies and the government to re-assess field postings for thousands of female medics at a time when nearly 10 million Afghan children need polio drops.
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ALEPPO Mohammed Abu Rdan has known nothing but conflict throughout his short life.
Born in rural Aleppo in 2011 when peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s government began, his childhood is anything but typical.
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The protests quickly turned into a multi-sided conflict that has sucked in world powers, killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions more and with it upended Abu Rdan’s life.
Now living in a displaced peoples’ camp in northern Aleppo, Abu Rdan has become his family’s main breadwinner after heart disease rendered his father unfit to work.