Mass immunization has largely eliminated polio.

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

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

Through intensive preventive medicine and immunization, polio was eradicated in 2001. The next target was the elimination of measles by 2005.

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

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

And our big idea is that the scientific miracle of this decade should be the complete eradication of poliomyelitis.

And it happened so fast in the United States, however, that even just last month Jon Stewart said this Jon Stewart Where is polio still active?

Immunization against children's paralyses

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

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.

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.

Pakistan s Polio Tipping Point

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.

Ladies and gentlemen, with a combination of smart people, smart technology and smart investments, polio can now be eradicated anywhere.

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.

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.

And then, by 1999, one of the three polio viruses that we were trying to eradicate had been completely eradicated worldwide proof of concept.

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.

Targeting anti polio efforts in Pakistan

Bruce Aylward How we'll stop polio for good

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.

Given the progress made in expanding vaccination programs in recent years, this revelation represents a unique opportunity for the global community, particularly as we begin to close the lid on polio.

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

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.

In eradicating polio, Pakistan would not just play its part in eliminating the disease worldwide. It would also reclaim its own global prestige and potential for progress in other areas.

Elimination of violence against children

Progressive elimination of child labour

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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