A health worker vaccinates a young child against polio in the Sakhour neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria,
A health worker vaccinates a young child against polio in the Sakhour neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, as part of a routine immunization campaign launched during World Immunization Week in 2017. The campaign aimed to vaccinate children under 5, including those who were not fully immunized, and the most vulnerable children living in shelters, hard-to-reach, and besieged areas. After six years of war, Syria’s immunization coverage has dropped from 80% pre-conflict to 41% in 2015. In some of the contested areas, routine immunization has completely stopped. Read about more people on the frontlines of fighting polio at this link.(: © Khouder Al-Issa/UN060903/UNICEF) -- source link
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