Pakistan s Polio Tipping Point

Pakistan s Winnable War on Polio

Mass immunization has largely eliminated polio.

Targeting anti polio efforts in Pakistan

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

Pockets of polio transmission also persist in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Consider the declaration of victory over polio in India, which seemed impossible ten years ago.

I was also given vaccines to prevent life threatening infections such as polio and measles.

With the recent progress on polio, Pakistan has a blueprint for future public health interventions.

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

Rather than wait for politicians to take up the fight against polio, Rotarians led the way.

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

In 1994, Pakistan had roughly 25,000 cases of polio, many resulting in death or permanent disability.

In response, African Ministers of Health launched the world's largest synchronized polio campaign across 23 countries.

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

And I think that if the marketing were more aspirational, if we could focus as a community on how far we've come and how amazing it would be to eradicate this disease, we could put polio fatigue and polio behind us.

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

Pakistan along with neighboring Afghanistan and Nigeria are among the few countries where Polio still remains endemic.

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

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

By 2006, the number of polio cases had been cut dramatically, to well under 3,000 cases per year.