{"id":633,"date":"2016-05-24T14:15:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T14:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/?p=633"},"modified":"2016-05-27T18:25:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T18:25:12","slug":"meet-women-trying-rid-pakistan-world-polio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Women Trying to Rid Pakistan\u2014and the World\u2014of Polio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-634 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/fort-824774_1920-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"fort-824774_1920\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/fort-824774_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/fort-824774_1920-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/fort-824774_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/fort-824774_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/fort-824774_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Risking lives to help others is nothing new for Saira Nizamuddin. The 19-year-old healthcare worker travels around Karachi, Pakistan, the largest city in the world where polio is still evident, to administer the polio vaccine. She, along with a team of 10 other vaccinators\u2014all local women\u2014were once escorted by police when they traveled from door to door administering the lifesaving vaccine, but lately they\u2019ve been working unguarded. She says the low-profile approach is meant to assuage any rumors spread by locals that the vaccine is unsafe or forbidden by Islam\u2014both false claims. For years many locals feared that male vaccinators were spies, and because of this healthcare workers often refused to travel without security. \u201cThere\u2019s no need for security,\u201d said Sikander Ali, a local health department official. \u201cPeople view the female health workers as locals.\u201d According to officials, thanks to this final push by Nizamuddin and those like her, Pakistan is on track to eradicate polio by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p>For the full article, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/la-fg-pakistan-polio-snap-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">visit LATimes.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Risking lives to help others is nothing new for Saira Nizamuddin. The 19-year-old healthcare worker travels around Karachi, Pakistan, the largest city in the world where polio is still evident, to administer the polio vaccine. 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