The use of OPV was discontinued in the United States in 2000 and in 2004 in the UK, but it continues to be used around the globe.

This work enabled Jonas Salk to make an effective polio vaccine.

The brutal truth is, if we don't have the will or the skill, or even the money that we need to reach children, the most vulnerable children in the world, with something as simple as an oral polio vaccine, then pretty soon, more than 200,000 children are again going to be paralyzed by this disease every single year.

On December 18, five female aid workers were killed as they were administering polio vaccinations.

Vitamin A supplements will be provided annually to all under 5 children (about 30 million) along with Oral Polio Vaccine on National Immunisation Days through the EPI network.

Golden Rice offers the potential to make contributions to human health and welfare as monumental as the discovery and distribution of the Salk polio vaccine.

Immunization against children's paralyses

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.

The second challenge we had was in contrast to the smallpox vaccine, which was very stable, and a single dose protected you for life the polio vaccine is incredibly fragile.

Pakistan s Polio Tipping Point

Pakistan s Winnable War on Polio

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.

Targeting anti polio efforts in Pakistan

The average percentage of people immunized by oral polio vaccine in 2002 of all cantons in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina was 81.8 per cent, which is considerably lower compared to the 92.3 per cent rate in 2001.

Bruce Aylward How we'll stop polio for good

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

Picornaviruses these are things that include the common cold and polio, things like this.

The first is that, when we started trying to eradicate polio about 20 years ago, more than twice as many countries were infected than had been when we started off with smallpox.

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

Nineteen years later, Aseefa is Pakistan s Goodwill Ambassador on Polio Eradication and a powerful advocate of completing her mother s dream of a polio free country.

Delegations also expressed concern about the resurgence of polio.

In response to the reappearance of polio in the Sudan in 2004, four mass polio vaccination campaigns were carried out in Darfur, reaching 100 per cent of the target under 15 population.

During the period under review, UNICEF and WHO embarked on the third round of polio vaccinations for children.

Mass immunization has largely eliminated polio.

Polio today has become an example of the complex problems plaguing Pakistan s state and its society.

Antipolio worker, Hilal Khan, is honored in Peshawar, Pakistan.

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.

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.

By including the hepB vaccine as part of a pentavalent (five in one) vaccine, the Alliance has already facilitated its delivery to children in 70 countries as part of routine immunizations.

Eradicating polio will be a milestone on our path to realizing this vision.

Widespread public support for polio eradication efforts has been reflected in a parliamentary resolution.

In 2011, a polio outbreak in China was traced back to Pakistan.

Already, Pakistan is responsible for the recent appearance of wild poliovirus in Egypt.

It marked the latest in a series of attacks on polio vaccination charity workers.

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.

The solution is therefore not much more complicated than a polio vaccine.

A worst case outcome there could set back the fight against polio by decades.

Unlike diseases such as smallpox and polio, there is no vaccine or drug therapy for guinea worm.

Golden Rice offers the potential to make contributions to human health and welfare as monumental as the discovery and distribution of the Salk polio vaccine. With wide use, it could save hundreds of thousands of lives every year and enhance the quality of life for millions more.

This may be the year we eradicate polio that will make it the second disease in history.

This is a group whose million strong army of volunteers have been working to eradicate polio for over 20 years.

The epidemic affected 13 previously polio free African countries.

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

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

a) eradicate polio from all OIC Member States by 2005,