Pakistan launches year’s first nationwide anti-polio campaign

Al Jazeera
Jan 16, 2023

Pakistan launches year’s first nationwide anti-polio campaign


Pakistan has launched its first nationwide anti-polio campaign for the year, aiming to immunise more than 44 million children under the age of five to protect them from the viral disease.

The three-day campaign started on Monday in more than 150 districts of the country, which along with Afghanistan are the only two countries where the debilitating neurodegenerative disease is still endemic.