Anti-polio campaign in Pakistan faces challenges

Anti-polio campaign in Pakistan faces challenges

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - A boy receives the oral polio vaccine in Rawalpindi near Islamabad in April 2014. The fight against polio in Pakistan faces social, political and religious challenges.

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