EpiNews - Women Health Workers Hold the Key to Eradicating Polio

Women Health Workers Hold the Key to Eradicating Polio

Polio Global Eradication Initiative

May 12, 2023

Communicable Diseases Emergency Response

Women Health Workers Hold the Key to Eradicating Polio

ISLAMABAD – Anyone who witnesses a polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan will notice something remarkable: in most areas, the majority of health workers moving house to house to vaccinate children against this highly infectious paralytic disease are women.

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