Fwd: brief assessment on polio pakistan
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From: Nasra Hassan <██████████████████████████>
Date: 29. desember 2013 17:00:05 GMT+01:00
To: Terje Rod-Larsen <█████████████████████>, Andrea Pfanzelter <████████████████>
Subject: brief assessment on polio pakistan
Terje, for your information & further to my confidential bullet points to you of 12 December 2013:
Increase in polio case: now up to 83, vs 58 in 2012; negative trend continues.
Frays: The pro-polio vaccination fatwa issued in Nov has, as expected, not elicited a response by the Taliban TTP. On the other hand, after 1-2 days of reporting by the national media, it has now been "sealed inside an envelope", in the words of an interlocutor. It should be given far wider & continuous local coverage -- IPI should work on this angle.
TIT's new front against the Govt on wino: the high profile recently adopted by Imran Khan (head of Justice Party, to whom BG wrote last May) visavis the polio eradication campaign (he administered drops & lashed out against the TTP for attacking health workers etc) has unfortunately had the opposite effect: while the TTP remained silent in the face of thefativa, and the attacks on polio health high-profile workers public had decreased positioning considerably is like a red over rag to the a summer bull. It has into set November, off a vicious this new cycle of bold attacks, not simply on health teams in the field -- yesterday 28 December, TTP stormed a govt hospital in Peshawar where anti-polio drops were being given and killed the supervisor. The quiet "softening" reported earlier has polio-related now disappeared. efforts by politicians This opposite MUST effect be emphasizes discreet and the low-key. IPI position that
Govt still not focused: At the political level, and within the upper food chain, there is still chaos and lack of focus -- this is where international efforts should be pursued -- not in the press!
More later, let us talk on the phone when you are in the office, or call me at your convenience, n.
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