This Is How Nigeria Beat Polio | TIME
A quarter-century campaign brings the world tantalizingly close to eradicating a disease It’s easy not to notice a negative. A house burns down on your
A quarter-century campaign brings the world tantalizingly close to eradicating a disease It’s easy not to notice a negative. A house burns down on your
Though hitting the milestone on Friday, it will take two years of monitoring before Nigeria, the last African polio-endemic country, can be certified as free
Once stigmatized as the world’s polio epicentre, Nigeria on Friday celebrates its first year with no reported case of the crippling disease, having overcome obstacles
This has been a great month: South-East Asia has become Polio Free. This article appeared in the Rotary Blog and we wanted to share it
posted from Impatient Optimists, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation HAMID JAFARI July 30, 2013 The final push to end polio is the largest and most
(reprinted from NPR.org) Somalia hadn’t had a case of polio for nearly six years. But in the past few months, the virus has come back.
From New York Times/ International Herald Tribune, India Edition October 24, 2012 A Conversation With: Polio Expert Naveen Thacker By PAMPOSH RAINA Courtesy of Dr.
On the 25th of May, the World Health Assembly declared polio a programmatic emergency for global public health. The Global Poverty Project interviewed Bruce Aylward,
For the latest information on polio eradication efforts around the world, we recommend the website Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI): http://www.polioeradication.org/ The website sponsors are