Anti-polio campaign to start in Afghanistan with Taliban support: UN

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Afghanistan will launch a countrywide polio vaccination campaign next month with full Taliban support, UN agencies say

Afghanistan will kick off its first countrywide polio immunisation campaign in years next month to protect millions of unvaccinated children.

The United Nations' health and children's agencies said on Monday that the campaign to vaccinate against the crippling and potentially fatal disease would begin on November 8, with full support from the Taliban leadership. "WHO and UNICEF welcome the decision by the Taliban leadership supporting the resumption of house-to-house polio vaccination across Afghanistan," they said in a statement.

Since the Taliban swept back into power two months ago, the UN had been talking with the group's leadership to address the towering health challenges in the country, the statement said.

 

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Priorities of UN is not feeding the hungry, but first controlling their fertility. Your wars crippled millions iatrogenically, but wish to prevent crippling of mere hundreds at most by their own destiny. Bskets.😏🤡👺👽Oral polio is banned in West as causes VAPP polio itself!🤠

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