Treating Polio in Afghanistan

This news story captures the way that children are being immunised as they cross the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. At the checkpoint, where approximately 50,000 people pass through daily, children under the age of five years are ushered into a shelter supported by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). There, polio volunteers administer drops and mark immunised children's fingers. The practice continues as long as the border/gates is/are open during the day, 7 days a week, 365 days every year. In Afghanistan, during the polio campaigns, volunteers go house to house, visiting every household and vaccinating all children under the age of five.

The video features a man who contracted polio when he was a toddler; he ensured that his own children were immunised. Also interviewed are UNICEF's Communication for Development Specialist (Polio) Kshitij Joshi and others.