Jan 17, 2012

Afflicted traces.

Highlighting the children in distress from different parts of the world.
- Photos by agencies | Text by Shameen Khan/Dawn.com

 

14 year old Polio-affected Indian boy Babloo waits to get his calipers at the Delhi Council for Child Welfare (DCCW) Orthopaedics centre in New Delhi on January 13, 2012. India marked a year since its last case of polio Friday, a major milestone in a country once considered the epicenter of the disease and one that gives hope of eradicating the scourge world wide.The country had 150,000 polio cases in 1985, but a huge government campaign backed by donor money has led the number of infections to plummet - into double figures in 2010 and finally zero in the last 12 months. – AFP Photo