Halal vaccines: ‘Different halal certifying bodies around the globe do not agree to one standard’ - AJ Pharma MD
In August this year the World Health Organization (WHO) said that Pakistan and Afghanistan must intensify efforts to stop the spread of polio.
Pakistan’s and Afghanistan’s mass vaccination campaigns have been held back by Taliban factions who banned the vaccines and, since 2012, killed more than 60 people on polio teams in areas they controlled.
Pakistani authorities then arrested hundreds of parents in northwest Pakistan in March this year after they refused to allow their children to be vaccinated. Many of these parents refuse vaccinations for their children because they believe the vaccines to be non-halal.
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