Finalist
Mary F. Calvert
ZUMA Press
"POLIO'S LINE IN THE SAND"
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Josephine Kamara, the UNICEF officer in charge of social mobilization for the polio vaccine campaign, right, and a village religious leader, left, plead with a man, middle, who refused the polio vaccine for his children. Polio vaccinators fanned out across the Fagge Government Area, in Ward Kwciri, looking for children under the age of five on day one of the Immunization Plus Day, (IPD) sponsored by UNICEF around Kano, Nigeria. Religious zealotry and misinformation have coerced villagers in the Muslim north of Nigeria into refusing polio vaccinations and led to the reemergence of polio only a few years after it nearly joined smallpox on the IDC’s list of eradicated diseases.
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