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WHO, UNICEF launch Afghan polio vaccine campaign with Taliban backing - geemong - 11-09-2021 WHO, UNICEF launch Afghan polio vaccine campaign with Taliban backing The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations children's agency kicked off a polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan on Monday (Nov 8), the first nationwide campaign to fight the disease in three years. เกมสล็อต 168 It's still scheduled. Cannot be changed. The negative effects will fall on the friends themselves. Naikwali Shah Momim, the National Emergency Operations Coordinator for the polio programme at Afghanistan's health ministry, told Reuters the campaign had started in various parts of the country on Monday, but added there were several hurdles around a shortage of trained staff. The campaign, which is aimed at reaching over 3 million children, had received Taliban backing, which would allow teams to reach children in previously inaccessible parts of the country, the WHO said. "The urgency with which the Taliban leadership wants the polio campaign to proceed demonstrates a joint commitment to maintain the health system and restart essential immunisations to avert further outbreaks of preventable diseases," said Ahmed Al Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, in a statement. However, Momim said that more training was needed for teams in remote areas, so the programme would initially start in places such as Kabul. Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan are the last countries in the world with endemic polio, an incurable and highly infectious disease transmitted through sewage that can cause crippling paralysis in young children. Polio has been virtually eliminated globally through a decades-long inoculation drive. But security issues, inaccessible terrain, mass displacement and suspicion of outside interference have hampered mass vaccination in Afghanistan and some areas of Pakistan.