The Guardian
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Accessed 6 April 2013

Global development
Battling Pakistan militants’ ban on polio vaccines in North Waziristan
2 Apr 2013
IRIN, part of the Guardian development network
Parents and officials are going to dangerous lengths to immunise children after militants imposed a ban on polio vaccinations
…Battling Pakistan militants’ ban on polio vaccines in North Waziristan … affiliated with the ban, and parents are travelling long distances to get their children vaccinated, in some cases smuggling the vaccine back home. Abdul Hassan* emerged recently from the district hospital in Bannu, just outside North Waziristan…

Global development
India makes inroads on polio as mosques spread the word | Esha Chhabra
2 Apr 2013
Health workers in Aligarh are overcoming cultural mistrust about polio immunisation by turning to local Muslim clerics for support. Esha Chhabra reports
… by a fellow Unicef health worker, she walks briskly in her billowing black burqa from house to house, the blue ice chest (which keeps the vaccine cool) in her colleague’s hand. Having worked for the polio campaign for nine years, she knows these neighbourhoods…