After 14 years, polio has made a comeback in Syria, courtesy of a ban on vaccination in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
![Vaccination campaigns are scheduled throughout Syria [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/201311175207903580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Siddharth Chatterjee is the Chief Diplomat at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the world’s largest humanitarian network. Working with UNICEF, he was on the front lines of polio eradication campaigns in South Sudan, Darfur and Somalia.
After 14 years, polio has made a comeback in Syria, courtesy of a ban on vaccination in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
![Vaccination campaigns are scheduled throughout Syria [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/201311175207903580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)