In eradicating polio, Pakistan would not just play its part in eliminating the disease worldwide.

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.

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.

This is the polio virus.

What about polio?

A cousin died of polio.

This is a polio vaccine.

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

Rotary International is supporting literacy programmes in addition to their continued efforts to eradicate polio.

Finishing polio eradication is the right thing to do.

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

Polio u0027s Defeat and Its Global Meaning

(c) That poliomyelitis will be eradicated in selected countries

Because we don't have polio.

We didn't have polio in this country yesterday.

Vaccine allowed us to eliminate polio virus.

Hundreds of volunteers like Sajida take part in the polio eradication campaign across Balochistan by vaccinating children under five years of age.

A series of measures to eradicate polio in the country was successfully completed in June 2002, when Turkmenistan was certified as wild polio virus free.

This year, we completed payment of the 8 million that we pledged to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative that in 2003 2004.

Oral polio vaccine will be replaced by the injectable kind.

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

But, thanks to intensive vaccination campaigns, there were only 58 cases of polio in the entire country last year down 70 from 2011. And the government and international health officials have agreed on a plan to stop polio transmission in Pakistan completely by the end of 2014 a historic accomplishment that would be a huge source of national pride.

And the government and international health officials have agreed on a plan to stop polio transmission in Pakistan completely by the end of 2014 a historic accomplishment that would be a huge source of national pride.

UNRWA remained committed to achieving the WHO UNICEF CDC targets for the eradication of poliomyelitis and neonatal tetanus and for reducing mortality from measles by half in 2005.

Paul Offit ... Vaccine allowed us to eliminate polio virus.

Delegations also expressed concern about the resurgence of polio.

(d) Elimination of polio in selected countries and regions

Now giving the polio vaccine is simple.

We may see the eradication of polio this year.

I was just in India working on the polio program.

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.

They were terrified of polio, and it would cause public panic.

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.

Last year alone, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative delivered almost two billion doses of polio vaccine to 575 million children in 94 countries.

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

Globally, investing in polio eradication helps everyone.

Ending polio will be a key milestone on the path to realizing this vision.

It marked the latest in a series of attacks on polio vaccination charity workers. On December 18, five female aid workers were killed as they were administering polio vaccinations.

Over 1 million children have been immunized against polio in Liberia.

We have the chance to write an entirely new polio free chapter in human history.

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

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.

And he then grew polio viruses in monkey kidney cells, in monkey testicular cells, and weakened the virus so that we then had the so called oral polio vaccine.

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.