The Public Health Ministry, UNICEF and the World Health Organization are administering the three-day polio vaccine program in Afghanistan to try and wipe out polio for good.

Afghanistan is one of a few countries in the world that still has a polio problem with new cases reported every year, most often in areas where insurgent threats have made it hard for the vaccine to reach children. 

Polio is a contagious and deadly disease which has almost been wiped out in the Western world because of vaccinations.