Pakistan has initiated a nationwide vaccination campaign aimed at protecting 45 million children from polio. This effort comes in response to a recent surge in new polio cases, which has posed challenges to the country's ongoing efforts to eradicate the disease. Pakistan is one of the two countries where polio has never been fully eradicated.
Despite facing obstacles such as violence targeting health workers and police involved in vaccination campaigns, Pakistan remains committed to its vaccination efforts. Militants have spread false claims that the vaccination campaigns are part of a Western conspiracy to sterilize children.
