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		</div><p>Pakistani authorities have launched a new nationwide anti-polio drive amid a spike in new cases among children, health officials said.</p>
<p>It is the sixth such campaign this year and will last for five days, aiming to inoculate children under the age of five in high-risk areas.</p>
<p>The newest drive was aimed at Islamabad and in the high-risk districts in eastern Punjab and south-western Baluchistan province.</p>
<p>A similar campaign will be launched in the north-west in the first week of December.</p>
<p>Pakistan regularly launches polio campaigns despite attacks on workers and police assigned to inoculation drives.</p>
<p>Militants falsely claim the vaccination campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilise children.</p>
<p>Since April, Pakistan has registered 20 new polio cases and the outbreak has been seen as a blow to the efforts to eradicate the disease, which can cause severe paralysis in children.</p>
<p>Pakistan came close to eradicating polio last year, when only one case was reported.</p>
<p>Since then, the new cases have been reported in the north-west, forcing the government to launch anti-polio drives at small intervals in high-risk areas across the country.</p>
<p>The last such campaign was launched earlier this month.</p>
<p>Pakistan’s anti-polio campaigns are also supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which last month pledged 1.2 billion US dollars (£991 million) to the effort to end polio worldwide.</p>
<p>The money will be used for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s strategy through until 2026.</p>
<p>The initiative is aimed at ending the polio virus in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the last two endemic countries, the foundation said last month.</p>
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