FACTORS INFLUENCING POLIOMYELITIS ERADICATION IN PAKISTAN

Abstract

The study is conducted on The Factors Influencing Poliomyelitis Eradication in Pakistan. The research area is a small village in the district of pishin Baluchistan. Identification of issue: it is (eradication of poliovirus in Pakistan); the initial problem is based on Pakistan's policymaking and health sanitation sector that needs to identify and address by the ethnographic informed and applied anthropology research to the health sector. This contribution to sanitation, policy, and management. The focus of the research is on the main thing that influences the way of eradicating poliovirus in Pakistan. Those influences exist at the local level in Pakistan and make the country still polio affected in the world. And the local community resistance and factors for the eradication of poliomyelitis. Research methodology: the research has been conducted through to qualitative research method there is used purposive sampling in the targeted population, in-depth interviews conducted from the local people, religious scholars, and polio workers. Participant observation, group discussion, case studies were also part of the research methodology. Field notes, audio recording, and photography are used as research techniques. The main finding of this research is the social and cultural barrier from the side of local community people, which influences the eradication of poliovirus and polio eradication programs in the country. The religious barrier, which depends on the religious scholar, religious society, and highly religious followers, becomes the rigged problem for the polio eradication program and their belief in polio disease and vaccines. Moreover, the government's strategies to ensure the eradication of poliovirus at the local level and the people's reaction against the policies become the main reason and factors influencing the eradication of polio disease from Pakistan and still become an endemic country. Key words: Social barriers, religious, government policy factor.