Finalist
Mary F. Calvert
ZUMA Press
"POLIO'S LINE IN THE SAND"
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Abdullahi Alasan, 18, has been crippled with polio for many years and has been unable to afford school until now. The Nigerian government allows students with polio to go to school for free and he is in a class with 6-10 year olds in a primary school in 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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