The armed movements also abducted teams from the Ministry of Health carrying out polio vaccinations in Northern and Southern Darfur.

Many delegations from both donor and programme countries expressed continued support to the global fight against polio in this crucial, final phase of the initiative.

Vaccine preventable diseases are being resolutely addressed, with special attention being given to polio and measles, which have begun to resurge in Indonesia.

And this started an incredible collaboration with industry, and within six months, we were testing a new polio vaccine that targeted, just two years ago, the last two types of polio in the world.

Not a single case of polio had been reported in the country in the past three years and the number of children vaccinated against other diseases in the remotest areas had increased from 19 percent to 60 percent in some regions and from 39 percent to 70 percent in others.