Volunteer community mobilizers sensitize communities in northern Nigeria about polio vaccination and routine immunization as well as antenatal care, hygiene, and nutrition.
Samima marks a door after vaccinating all the children in the house during a polio immunization campaign in Zargaran, Bamyan province in central Afghanistan.
During a door-to-door national polio campaign, a polio worker vaccinates a young girl in Drrimiann Goth Village in Hyderabad District, Sindh Province, Pakistan.
Saheeb Jaan, a shrinekeeper in Bamyan province in Afghanistan, has been a volunteer reporter for acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), a major indicator for polio, for the past 8 years. The hard work of AFP reporters like her ensures that the poliovirus is continuously tracked and every case of polio is found.
Nasima Rajabi works as a nurse in a children’s hospital in Balkh province, Afghanistan. As an acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) reporting volunteer, she checks and reports all children with signs of flaccid paralysis with sudden onset.
A short video-chat with Senator Ayesha Raza Farooq, Prime Minister’s Focal Person on Polio Eradication in Pakistan, on the prospects of eradicating polio in the country.