[Re: https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/another-police-officer-killed-pakistan-... ]
It is really sad news to be lost by the people you aim to protect. Unfortunately, similar attacks have occurred in other countries, including Nigeria in 2013 (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/08/polio-workers-nigeria-shot...) and Afghanistan in 2022 (https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/02/1112612). What stands out is that the intensity of targeting vaccination efforts increased noticeably after the CIA's use of a fake vaccination programme in 2011 to collect DNA from Osama bin Laden's family (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccinations-osam...). It remains a striking choice that, among available intelligence options, this method relied on undermining a fundamental public health tool relied upon by millions of children worldwide. The consequences for global polio eradication efforts have continued more than a decade later, long after the original operation concluded and 'mission accomplished'
Best regards,
Ghaiath
HIFA profile: Ghaiath Hussein is a registrar of community medicine and bioethicist by training. His expertise varied from providing assistance for researchers on technical and ethical issues, to editing and developing ethical guidelines and training manuals on research ethics. He has been working in the department of research at the Federal Ministry of Health (Sudan), before being assigned as the Senior Project Officer a MARC (Mapping African Ethics Review Capacity) project managed by COHRED and funded by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP). Currently, he is an assistant professor of bioethics in King Saud University for Health Sciences, King Fahad Medical City Faculty of Medicine. He also provides voluntary ethics teaching and cosultation services for some regional and international organizations, especially on public health ethical issues. ghaiathme AT gmail.com