Urging Cooperation for Eradication
Polio Storyline: New Home New Life (NHNL) Radio Soap
...from September 8-21 2009, Afghanistan's NHNL radio soap opera featured a polio eradication storyline: When elderly Zarmina is informed about the importance of polio vaccine, she carries the information to her daughter Fatima and explains the risk children face if they do not receive polio drops. She urges Fatima to take her son Omid to the clinic to get him immunised...
Statement from the International Islamic Fiqh Academy to Encourage Vaccination against Polio
...available in Arabic and English, this document is designed to be used as a communication tool for reaching out to Muslim communities in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India. The author, an Islamic scholar, indicates that he hopes that ministries of health in member states will intensify their efforts to eradicate polio, based on the analysis provided in this fatwa...
Report on the Meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on Poliomyelitis Eradication in Afghanistan and Pakistan
...this report emerges from a June 1-2 2009 meeting convened to review progress towards polio eradication in Afghanistan and Pakistan, to discuss planned activities for 2009, and to make recommendations to address constraints facing the national programmes on their way to achieve this target. Opening comments stressed the close relationship between the 2 countries epidemiologically and the importance of continuing and further strengthening joint and well-coordinated efforts between them...
