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The women who risk their lives to deliver Pakistan’s polio vaccines – The Guardian

As activists target female vaccinators, Pakistan remains one of only two countries worldwide not to have eradicated polio

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Nasreen Bibi never saw the face of her killer. The 44-year-old had just finished work for the day, vaccinating children against polio in Chaman, Pakistan. As she and her co-worker, Rashida Bibi (no relation), stood waiting for a rickshaw home, a motorcycle skidded up in front of them carrying two masked men.
The men did not utter a word, but through the churned up dust that filled the air, Rashida remembers seeing the raised pistol, hearing the shots and feeling the pain as the bullets hit her hands,…

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