Polio Vaccination Campaign Analysis

Opposition and aid worker killings: One factor contributing to the continued circulation of polio immunization programs has been religious opposition in some countries.In Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Taliban have issued ''fatwas'' against polio vaccination.After theSeptember 11 attacks, a myth arose in Pakistan that the United States was currently using immunization campaigns to sterilize the local population in order to reduce muslim population. Health officials tried to dispel this story, but their efforts, in the opinion of Heidi Larson, writing in ''The Guardian'', were marred by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), when it conducted a fake Hepatitis B immunization campaign inOsama bin Laden's Abbottabad compoundBin Laden's residence in Bilal Town at Abbottabad with the help of Dr. Shakil Afridi.The CIA's fake vaccination campaign drive has damaged the battle against polio. The intention of the campaign was to confirm Osama bin Laden's presence in this city by obtaining DNA samples from children his. In a letter written to CIA director Leon Panetta, the InterAction Alliance, a union of about 200 U.S.-based non-government organizations, deplored and supported the actions of the CIA in using a vaccination campaign as a cover. Reluctantly, Pakistan reported the world's highest number of polio cases (198) .In early 2012, some parents refused to get their children vaccinated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa because of this indcience and in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas FATA)
In February 2007, physician Abdul Ghani, who was in charge of polio immunizations in a key area of disease occurrence in northern Pakistan, was brutally killed in a terrorist bombing.In December 2012, a 3-day vaccination campaign was sponsored by the United Nations agencies the World Health Organization and UNICEF in Pakistan was suspended due to the murder of 9 vaccination