It is estimated the about 500 children got polio in Afghanistan in the year of 2012. More and more children get polio every year. And many people are trying to help the children of Afghanistan.
where are the officical records of children who caught polio back before 1954 ? Because my beloved grandma died of it and I wanna no what happened to her.
Opium has many people addicted in Afghanistan. This lethal drug has led to over 2,700 civilian deaths and over 4,800 civilian injuries alone in 2012. Many children are also having this drug addiction in Pakistan also.
50,000 people died of polio.
OneAfghanistan won one bronze medal during the London 2012 Olympics.
Indeed, vaccines ARE beneficial for the majority of children. Vaccinations have nearly wiped out many contagious diseases -- unless parents did not vaccinate their children. MMR--measles, mumps, rubella (German measles)-- is one. Small pox another; polio containment a HUGE achievement. Besides deformities, like from polio, and years of medical treatments, many of these contagions resulted in death for babies and young children.
If you can get all the children of your locality polio vaccinated, there is least liklihood of future generation having contacted polio disease. By this way the impact of polio vaccination is immese. By rigorous polio vaccination drive, India has been declared by WHO as polio free country for two consecutive years.
Six Afghan athletes were selected for the Games. Rohullah Nikpai won Afghanistan's first ever Olympic medal at the 2008 Games and in 2012 won a bronze in the men's 68 kg taekwondo event .
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In 2006 only four countries in the world (Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan) were reported to have endemic polio. However by this time rumors had begun to be common among Muslims that the vaccine was a western plot to sterilize their women. This has resulted in rising opposition to vaccination programs including killings of immunization workers in many Muslim countries. Polio then quickly spread in Africa and southern Asia and it has been difficult to catchup again, although by 2013 it had finally been reduced to only three countries in the world (Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan) which still had endemic polio.
Total population (thousands), 2006: 26,088 inhabitants.Source: UNICEFhttp://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/afghanistan_statistics.htmlIn 2012 the estimated population is 30,419,928.This does not include the external military sent into the region.The estimated population of Afghanistan is approximately 32 million.29,928,987AS of 2013, the estimated population of Afghanistan is 31,108,077.
The number of civilian deaths in the Afghanistan War average two thousand a year throughout the period of 2005-2012. The approximate total of civilian deaths in the Afghanistan War is 14,000, going by the average per year.