Pakistan is one of only two countries in the world where the poliovirus is still endemic – the other being neighbouring Afghanistan.

Since 2015, Pakistan has reported 362 polio cases, including 13 this year so far. One of the victims, a two-year-old boy, died in May, while some others have been paralysed.

This year, six campaigns, targeting over 43 million children, have been undertaken.

However, despite administering more than 300 million doses of oral vaccine annually with the help of at least 350,000 vaccinators and an expenditure of more than $9.3bn from 2013 to 2023, the country has been unable to eradicate polio.

Al Jazeera speaks to Dr Hamid Jafari, WHO’s regional director of polio eradication, on the current situation and the prospects of Pakistan eradicating polio.