Ridding the world of polio is proving to be an elusive goal. And a
key problem may well be that organizers of the global anti-polio
initiative, and of other global health programs, are not listening to
the people they want to help — or to each other.
As a result, in many communities targeted by the programs, people
perceive a gulf between global programs like polio eradication and more
immediate local health needs.
As one man in Northern Nigeria asked me, “Why polio, polio, polio, when we cannot get a health clinic near our village?”
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