Taliban health 省 開始する,打ち上げるs 年次の polio ワクチン接種 運動

KABUL, March 13 (Reuters) - Afghanistan has 開始する,打ち上げるd its 年次の polio inoculation (選挙などの)運動をする 目的(とする)d at reaching 9 million children, the health 省 said on Monday, the second year in a 列/漕ぐ/騒動 the ワクチン接種 運動 has taken place under Taliban 支配する.

Afghanistan and 隣人ing Pakistan are the last countries with endemic polio, an incurable and 高度に 感染性の 病気 that can 原因(となる) 手足を不自由にする/(物事を)損なうing paralysis in young children.

Polio has been 事実上 除去するd globally through a 10年間s-long inoculation 運動. But insecurity, inaccessible 地形, 集まり 排水(気)量 and 疑惑 of outside 干渉,妨害 have 妨害するd 集まり ワクチン接種 in Afghanistan and some areas of Pakistan.

Nek Wali Shah Momin, director of Afghanistan's 国家の 緊急 操作/手術 中心 (EOC) for Polio Eradication, said many more areas could now be reached since the Taliban took over and fighting stopped. The EOC is led by the health 省 and 含むs international 機関s 含むing the World Health Orgnization and the U.N. children's 機関.

While the Taliban have in 最近の months banned many 女性(の) NGO 労働者s and stopped women …に出席するing universities and most high schools, the doctor said 女性(の) vaccinators were working on the (選挙などの)運動をする.

He said women were 決定的な to 接近ing children who were often at home with their 女性(の) caregivers who were usually not comfortable interacting with male vaccinators.

In areas where ワクチン接種 teams had to travel longer distances, Momin said 当局 had 要求するd 女性(の) staff to have a male chaperone. He said they had 新採用するd and trained male family members of the 女性(の) vaccinators to join the teams' ワクチン接種 成果/努力s.

Some 交戦的な 派閥s have 的d ワクチン接種 成果/努力s in the past. In 2022, eight 労働者s were killed in attacks in northern Afghanistan.

"The support of all Afghans, 含むing parents, community leaders, 民族の 年上のs, and 宗教的な leaders, is 批判的な to eradicate polio and we want them to 参加する the fight," the Taliban's 事実上の/代理 health 大臣 Qalandar Ebad said.

Some health 専門家s said the 役割 of the Taliban, whose 明言する/公表するd goal is to 課す their strict 解釈/通訳 of Islamic 法律, could help encourage 受託 of ワクチン接種 in 保守的な areas around the 地域.

"宗教的な leaders' 役割 in the polio 排除/予選 運動 in both Pakistan and Afghanistan is 決定的な ... the active 参加 of the Taliban in polio (選挙などの)運動をするs is a very 肯定的な and major 開発," said Rana Jawad Asghar, an epidemiology 専門家 and CEO of Pakistan-based consultancy 全世界の Health Strategists and Implementers. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Charlotte Greenfield and Mohammad Yunus Yawar; Editing by Alison Williams)

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