09/03/2022
Gender, International Women's Day
Pakistan
Women supporting polio eradication in Pakistan
The brave women at all levels of the polio program bring us closer to a world without polio.
This International Women’s Day, we get to meet some of the women leading the polio eradication efforts in Pakistan.
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