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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

ISLAMABAD Early this month, tragedy struck Pakistan s polio eradication campaign once again with the killing of two more polio workers and a policeman on patrol with the vaccination teams.

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

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

India, polio free for the last two years, is well aware that lasting domestic success depends on eradication efforts elsewhere.

Vaccines have eradicated smallpox, pushed polio to the verge of eradication, and saved millions of children from measles, diphtheria, tetanus, and other deadly and disabling diseases.

Pakistan must increase its efforts on polio eradication for reasons that go beyond fulfilling a global health promise (which is reason enough in its own right).

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.

The expanded funding allowed major campaigns against AIDS, TB, and malaria a major scaling up of safe childbirth and increased vaccine coverage, including the near eradication of polio.

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.

For Pakistan, the irony is that the country has been a success story for polio eradication, with the number of cases falling from 197 in 2011 to 58 in 2012.

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 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

At the same time, local governments difficulties are having an adverse effect on provision of clean water and proper sanitation, which are vitally important for polio eradication and public health more broadly.

Pakistan s Polio Tipping Point

The Gates Foundation, UNICEF, Rotary International, and many governments have succeeded in bringing down polio deaths to one thousandth of the rate a generation ago, bringing the disease to the verge of eradication.

Following through on polio eradication by extending the reach of vaccines to all children who need them is an opportunity for all of us to stand together on behalf of our global community.

The most recent report by the Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, released in November 2012, acknowledged Pakistan s recent progress in stark contrast to the bleak outlook of its previous report.

Pakistan s Winnable War on Polio

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.

So far, we have transferred 15 million of that amount to the Fund. This year, we completed payment of the 8 million that we pledged to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative that in 2003 2004.

temperature) References External links Global Polio Eradication Initiative Advantages and Disadvantages of Vaccine Types CDC H1N1 Flu 2009 H1N1 Nasal Spray Vaccine Q A at the website of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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.

Mass immunization has largely eliminated polio.

Targeting anti polio efforts in Pakistan

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.

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.

Bruce Aylward How we'll stop polio for good

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

The epidemic affected 13 previously polio free African countries.

Delegations also expressed concern about the resurgence of polio.

Tetanus, measles, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, hepatitis B, yellow fever.

A joint polio and measles appeal brought capacity and results.

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