title: Why we must provide better support for Pakistan's female frontline health workers.
abstract: Svea Closser and Rashid Jooma argue that achieving polio eradication and strengthening Pakistan's health system must focus not just on international engagement but also on local partnerships with Lady Health Workers and other ground-level staff. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, United States of America.
authors.forename: Svea
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Closser
authors.forename: Rashid
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jooma
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D010154:Pakistan