Over 22 million Bangladeshi children up to five years old were given polio vaccine during the second round of the country’s 20th National Immunisation Day in February 2012.
Rukhsar Khatoon may be the last reported case of wild poliovirus in India, she was just 18 months old when she was paralyzed by polio on 13 January 2011.
On January 13th 2012, the world will reach a remarkable milestone in the fight to eradicate polio – 12 months without a single case of polio for the first time in India’s history.
The community leaders, or ‘Hardos’, among the Fulani people in Katsina State, Nigeria, have come together under the Myetti Allah organization to help vaccinate the hardest-to-reach children against polio...