{"id":79257,"date":"2025-07-02T16:08:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=79257"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:08:36","slug":"govt-to-launch-polio-vaccination-injection-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/govt-to-launch-polio-vaccination-injection-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to launch polio vaccination injection campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Pakistan government has made up its mind to provide<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/pakistan-confirms-14th-polio-case-of-2025\/\"> inactivated polio vaccine<\/a> (IPV) injections to children under 15 years of age in a bid to root out the polio virus.<\/p>\n<p>As per sources, the move, prompted by advice from international anti-polio organizations, will be aimed at children in Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar in a special campaign over the course of the next four months.<\/p>\n<p>The IPV injections, being a booster, are expected to greatly increase immunity against polio, especially in the wake of fears that compromised immunity is responsible for the circulation of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/govt-to-expand-polio-drive-to-cover-children-up-to-age-15-mustafa-kamal\/\">wild poliovirus type 1<\/a> (WPV1).<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, which will commence with phased implementation, will have children immunized in one day for each phase to enhance their immunity.<\/p>\n<p>The Technical Advisory Group (TAG), an international panel of polio experts for Pakistan and Afghanistan, suggested the IPV campaign in a recent meeting in Islamabad. International organizations will supply the vaccines for the initiative to provide a strong response to stop the virus from spreading.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, it was indicated that Pakistan has seen more than 60,000 refusals of polio vaccine cases during the anti-polio campaign conducted between April 21 to 27, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In Pakistan&#8217;s second countrywide polio eradication drive conducted between April 21 to 27, 2025, 60,906 refusals of polio vaccine were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The largest number of refusals originated from Sindh, 39,073 cases of which were reported, more than 37,000 of those from Karachi alone.<\/p>\n<p>Polio vaccine refusal cases were also reported by Balochistan in excess of 3,500. The refusal rate for the polio vaccine was reported at 0.4% by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n<p>Parental refusal to the anti-polio vaccine was also reported in Punjab and Islamabad. The authorities are still worried about vaccine hesitance, which still ranks high as a threat to eradicating polio from the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Pakistan government has made up its mind to provide inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) injections to children under 15 years of age in a bid to root out the polio virus. As per sources, the move, prompted by advice from international anti-polio organizations, will be aimed at children in Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[29854,23208],"class_list":["post-79257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-polio-vaccine","tag-wild-poliovirus-type-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79261,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79257\/revisions\/79261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}