Oct 18 2011
The Los Angeles Times examines polio eradication campaigns in Pakistan, which is one of just four countries where the disease remains endemic. "Several factors have stood in the way of eradication," including tribal violence, migration within the country and "an intense mistrust among some Pakistanis for the vaccines and the people who supply and administer them," according to the newspaper (Rodriguez, 10/16).
This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente. |