(5 Aug 2025)
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Jalalabad, Afghanistan – 26 May 2025
1. Wide shot of village with mud houses in outskirts of Jalalabad city
2. Polio workers in street passing in front of camera
3. Polio workers walking toward vaccination point
4. Various shots of Polio team vaccinating children’s and registering
5. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Abdul Rauf Ahsan, WHO representative for polio program in Nangarhar province:
"When we go to the area for monitoring, approximately thirty to thirty-five percent of the people in the area have doubts about the polio vaccine. Some consider this vaccine to be forbidden, while others say that it is useless and causes various other diseases. In my opinion, the cause of this problem is the lack of public awareness."
6. Various of another polio team vaccinating children’s
7. Polio team leaving
8. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Lal Agha, Tribal elder:
"I request to my government to appoint responsible people in the field for public awareness, and those who do not know the benefits of polio vaccination should be made aware of it. Polio vaccination protects our children from paralysis and gives them good health."
9. Various of Jalalabad city with traffic people walking around
10. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Maulvi Aminullah Sharif, Director public health, Nangarhar province:
"Compared to other countries in the world, both countries (Afghanistan and Pakistan ) are one of countries having wars , poverty, ignorance, and lack of education, and has problems in the health sector and the conditions are not very good. If you see that people here (Afghanistan ) they do not follow hygiene while built toilets , as compared to other develop countries, here we have issue of immigration all the time and most of the immigrants who come from neighboring countries have been deprived of vaccination and bring polio virus with them, these factors have led to the fact that polio is still present in Afghanistan."
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Karachi, Pakistan – 26 May 2025
11. Various of top shots of Karachi
12. Various shots of polio workers on way to houses for polio vaccination along with police personnel.
13. Polio worker discussing parents to vaccinate their children
14. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Sughra Ayaz, Polio worker, Pakistan:
"This is not only Polio. When we go to the people, they ask us why you were only working on polio.? There is a lot. A lot of diseases. I went one house, and one mother told me that my son is patient of Thalassemia, and I am poor, and she cried and said that she could not afford treatment of her child which is expensive so why the government was not doing anything on it."
15. Various shots of polio worker marking child after vaccination
16. Shots of security with polio team
17. Low angle shot of polio workers leaving from the residential areas after vaccination in police escort
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Nofil Naqvi, communication officer for Polio at emergency operation centre for Sindh:
“Definitely terrorism is not first and foremost among the issues that we have to deal with in order to eradicate polio in Sindh. We have other issues like I mentioned earlier, we have population movement, we have misinformation which is causing parents to hide their children or outright refuse to vaccinate their children."
19. Various street shots of Karachi
STORYLINE:
For nearly four decades, the World Health Organization and partners have been trying to rid the world of polio, a paralytic disease that has existed since prehistoric times. While cases have dropped more than 99%, polio remains entrenched in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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