Finishing polio eradication is the right thing to do.

We may see the eradication of polio this year.

Extension of cooperation with Rotary International for polio eradication

Strongly affirms its commitment to the eradication of polio from all OIC Member States so that they can contribute effectively to the goal of Global Polio Eradication.

g) Global Cooperation in Polio Eradication Programme among OIC Member States

What the polio eradication program is trying to do is to kill the virus itself that causes polio everywhere on Earth.

And polio eradication, in many ways, is even tougher, and there's a few reasons for that.

Extension of cooperation with Rotary International for polio eradication and extension of the Vaccine Independence Initiative

Within a couple of years, every country that started polio eradication rapidly eradicated all three of their polio viruses, with the exception of four countries that you see here.

Extension of cooperation with Rotary International for polio eradication (E ICEF 2005 P L.37) 6 (b)

And for that reason, polio eradication it's the ultimate in equity and it's the ultimate in social justice.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative had seen progress in Asia but there had been set backs in Africa.

In 2011, a polio outbreak in China was traced back to Pakistan. India, polio free for the last two years, is well aware that lasting domestic success depends on eradication efforts elsewhere.

The huge social movement that's been involved in polio eradication is ready to do way more for these children.

The representative of Rotary International expressed appreciation for the continued support of UNICEF to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.

And at the same time, the polio eradication program has been working to help with a lot of other areas.

This year, we completed payment of the 8 million that we pledged to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative that in 2003 2004.

And if we can finish polio eradication, the poorest countries in the world are going to save over 50 billion dollars in the next 25 years alone.

We have major challenges, you can imagine, to finish this job, but as you've also seen, it's doable, it has great secondary benefits, and polio eradication is a great buy.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, led by CDC, Rotary International, UNICEF and WHO, saw an almost 50 per cent decline in the number of reported cases in 2004 in Asia.

Significant results in reaching children have been seen in such countries as Afghanistan, India and Pakistan from targeted social mobilization and communication in support of the global polio eradication initiative.

Now it took years to build up the infrastructure for polio eradication more than 15 years, much longer than it should have but once it was built, the results were striking.

Urgently calls on the international community, Member States and philanthropic organizations, including in particular, those in the Islamic World to provide the necessary resources to the global polio eradication initiative to

Umar also has polio.

Pakistan s Polio Tipping Point

And so when the going got really tough in the polio eradication program about two years ago, when people were saying, We should call it off, the Polio Partnership decided to buckle down once again and try and find innovative new solutions, new ways to get to the children that we were missing again and again.

The plan should also present a deeper analysis of barriers to reducing under five mortality emphasize progress made in immunization, particularly measles, polio eradication and work with GAVI and refer to WHO UNICEF global immunization strategy.

The Conference strongly affirmed its commitment to the eradication of polio in all the OIC Member States so as to enable them to contribute effectively to achieving the objective of the international programme to eradicate poliomyelitis.

This is a polio vaccine.

This is the polio virus.

Pakistan s Winnable War on Polio

Thanks all countries that have contributed to the programme of eradication of polio and calls upon all OIC Member States to allocate the necessary domestic resources to ensure that all children are protected from this crippling disease.

We're not trying to control polio.

With polio it's almost completely different.

Blindness, polio early detection, early response.

The G8 nations have been incredibly generous on polio over the last 20 years, but we're starting to have something called polio fatigue and that is that the donor nations aren't willing to fund polio any longer.

The simultaneous scaling back of the local government system, along with the divisive politics of coalition governments in Pakistan s fragile democracy, continues to undermine implementation of the polio eradication program. The resulting shortcomings in the country s provincial health systems have manifested themselves not just in the inability to eradicate polio, but also in a recent measles outbreak, which has killed more than 300 children.

Polio is still a devastating, explosive disease.

Now giving the polio vaccine is simple.

But soon we may see polio eradicated.

Bruce Aylward How we'll stop polio for good

Polio strikes the poorest communities in the world.

But the reality is that polio still exists today.

The reality of polio today is something very different.

Here's a great idea to spread End polio now.