A relative mourned a 19-year-old female polio-vaccine worker who was gunned down in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday; a 20-year-old volunteer was critically injured in the attack. The World Health Organization suspended its vaccination program in the city after the attack.
A health worker administered polio drops in the slums of Islamabad, Pakistan, in December. Attacks against health workers are threatening gains made in the fight against polio in the country.
A policeman protected a health worker vaccinating against polio in Islamabad in December. Pakistan is one of four countries—along with Afghanistan, India and Nigeria—where the disease is still endemic.
Police officers carried an injured colleague at a local hospital in Peshawar in April after gunmen targeted a team of female polio workers.
Pakistani security officials escorted heath workers in Peshawar in February. Attacks against vaccination teams have made it more difficult for Pakistan to join the vast majority of nations that declare themselves polio-free.
In December, gunmen killed nine polio workers in different parts of Pakistan. Here, villagers mourned one of the killed polio workers in Wahidgari, on the outskirts of Peshawar, in December.
Salma Saleem administered a polio vaccine to a boy in the doorway of his home in Islamabad on April 15.
A polio worker received medical treatment after he was shot in Peshawar in December. The Pakistani Taliban has repeatedly targeted polio workers.
Family members mourned a polio worker in Karachi, Pakistan, in December. The WHO said it pulled back its monitoring staff from Peshawar and that it will resume the vaccination program when the provincial government deems it safe to continue.
A worker administered drops vaccine drops to a child in Lahore, Pakistan, in December. Several conservative clerics in Pakistan have condemned the polio-eradication campaign as a Western conspiracy to sterilize or poison Muslim children.
A security official escorted health workers as they administered polio vaccines to children near the Afghan border in Chaman, Pakistan, in January.
A police officer escorted health workers in Lahore in December.
A schoolgirl received a polio vaccine in Islamabad in January.
Polio-vaccination workers shouted slogans against the killing of their colleagues during a protest in Karachi in December.
A health worker gave vaccine drops to a young child in a slum area of Lahore in December.
29 May, 2013
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