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KABUL, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan Public Health Ministry launched a nationwide campaign on Sunday to give polio vaccination dose to 9.9 million children und
The Afghan Public Health Ministry launched a nationwide campaign on Sunday to give polio vaccination doses to 9.9 million children under the age of five, the mi
And now for the good news. in 2017, nigeria completed a full year without any new cases of polio. and that is a huge accomplishment for nigeria, a country that accounted for more than half of all polio cases worldwide just six years ago. and now there is more good news for nigeria about the bill and melinda gates foundation has agreed to pick up the tab for the cost of polio vaccinations. the gates foundation has announced that it will pay a $76 million loan that nigeria got from japan for polio air rad
Security are absolutely linked. it is not surprising that the three countries on earth where we're still grappling with polio are those countries who have had a lot of unrest. >> gates' foundation ceo dr. sue desmond helmand is in the capital to see the eradication efforts firsthand. the foundation has contributed billions toward the incredibly ambitious goal of wiping the disease off the face of the earth in the next few years. eradicating disease, it's only happened once before. that was in 1980. it's within reach once again. since the global initiative began in 1988, polio cases worldwide h...
A lot of unrest. >> dr. sue desmond helmand is in the capital to see the eradication efforts firsthand. the foundation has contributed billions toward the incredibly ambitious goal of wiping the disease off the face of the earth in the next few years. eradicating a disease, it's only ever happened once before. it was in 1980. since the global initiative began, polio cases worldwide have been reduced by 99%. conflict within nigeria, afghanistan and pakistan. the last push will be a challenge, but by no means should conflict be an excuse.