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29/10/2011
Immunizing over 9 million
BEIJING---China vaccinated more than 9 million children and young adults last September in Xinjiang in a fight against polio after the disease paralyzed 18 people and killed one of them. Over 4 million children received a...
23/10/2011
Social data is 'invaluable'
29/09/2011
For seven countries in west Africa and Horn of Africa
Washington, D.C. — The United Nations Foundation today announced that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had delivered $10 million of its $30 million commitment to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (G...
22/09/2011
Children and adults all vaccinated
Chinese authorities continue to respond aggressively to a polio outbreak in the western part of the country, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Following the initial immunization campaign held on 8-1...
29/08/2011
The Ministry of Health, China, has informed WHO that wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) has been isolated from four young children, aged between four months and two years, with onset of paralysis between 3 and 27 July 2011. All four cases are from Hotan Pre...
18/08/2011
4.9 billion Japanese Yen (JPY) loan from JICA to support polio eradication in Pakistan through 2013
Ms. Sadako Ogata, President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and Mr. Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundati...
28/07/2011
The End of Polio campaign starts spreading the word on the international effort to eradicate polio.
The campaign, brainchild of the Global Poverty Project, gives four reasons to eradicate polio:
• It's a generation defining achievement.
•...
24/07/2011
WHO and the CDC, China co-hosted an International workshop on polio eradication during 21-22 July in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China.
"The global battle to eradicate polio is challenged with the double pressure of being polio-free and maintaining polio-...
20/07/2011
Independent Monitoring Board report
The report of the 30 June-1 July meeting of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) affirms that polio eradication can be achieved in the near-term, but that 'this will not happen if things continue as they are.'...
06/07/2011
Discussion on Polio eradication at the 38th Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers.
22/06/2011
The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) will convene its third quarterly meeting in London, UK, on 30 June-1 July 2011.
The meeting follows the Board's end-March meeting, during which it offered a frank...
27/05/2011
As part of efforts to prepare for the polio post-eradication era, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners have facilitated the development and transfer of new polio vaccine technology to vaccine production facilities in India and the Republic...
17/05/2011
One year after launch of new plan, infected countries and donors review effectiveness of strategies and agree on essential steps to finish the job quickly
17 May 2011, Geneva, Switzerland - As international public health leaders gather in Geneva this...
01/04/2011
To assess progress towards polio-free world and measure developments against milestones set out in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative Strategic Plan 2010-2012, IMB members are presented with data and risk assessment.
The Independent Monitoring Board...
24/02/2011
Most people celebrate a birthday with cake - but not Rotary International. Living up to their motto, 'Service Above Self', Rotarians instead used the organization's 106th anniversary to spread the message about polio eradication.
So after the bell was...
