Feb 12 2013
"Between December and January, at least 16 polio workers were killed in Pakistan, according to Reuters -- and [on Friday], nine female health workers were slain in northern Nigeria, also while working on a polio eradication campaign," Laura Hoemeke, director of communications and knowledge management at IntraHealth, writes in the organization's "Global Health Blog." She discusses "similarities between what happened in Pakistan and Nigeria around polio eradication efforts" and asks, "How can we move beyond condemnation to helping to influence change?" (2/8).
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.
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