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Global leaders support new six-year plan to deliver a polio-free world by 2018

Submitted by Sabin on Fri, 2013-04-26 13:14

Joint release by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, WHO, UNICEF, Rotary Internatonal and the US Centers for Disease Control annouces new pledges to gloabl polio eradication efforts.

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Ciro de Quadros: Harnessing the Power of Vaccines to End Polio

Submitted by Sabin on Fri, 2013-04-12 15:41

Today, Sabin Executive Vice President Dr. Ciro de Quadros published an op-ed in the Huffington Post discussing the power of vaccines in the fight against polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases.

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The Polio Endgame

04.04.13

The number of polio cases has plummeted in the last 25 years, from 300,000 to less than 300. Even so, last May the World Health Organization declared that global eradication of polio, reaching that last 0.1 percent, was a “programmatic emergency for global public health.”

Forbes: How Vaccines Have Changed Our World In One Graphic

02.20.13

Yesterday on Forbes, Matthew Herper wrote about an impressive infographic which illustrates the impact vaccines have had on reducing the burden of disease in the United States. Zero cases of polio and smallpox, down from 16,000 and 29,000 cases earlier in the twentieth century. The number of measles cases has been reduced to 61, down from more than half a million in less than a century's time.

Recent Acts of Violence Undermine Efforts to Eradicate Polio Worldwide

02.14.13

Health workers don’t just play a significant part in achieving many global health goals; they are on the ground making these goals possible.

Polio And Politics

Submitted by Sabin on Mon, 2013-01-07 09:12

In the global edition of Time Magazine authors discuss the continued challenges with polio eradication.

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Polio and vaccine diplomacy in Pakistan

Submitted by Sabin on Thu, 2012-12-20 09:13

This week the global health community is mourning the violent loss of nine workers who were killed while administering vaccines in Pakistan as part of a national polio vaccination program.

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Honoring World Polio Day

10.24.12

For more than a decade, people around the world have celebrated public health successes in reducing the burden of polio on October 24^th.

Statement by Bill Gates on the Occasion of the World Health Assembly Resolutions Declaring Completion of Polio Eradication a Global Emergency and Endorsing the Global Vaccine Action Plan

Submitted by Sabin on Fri, 2012-05-25 00:00

May 25, 2012

SEATTLE -- “Today marks a huge victory in the fight to protect all children from vaccine-preventable diseases, no matter where they live."

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Immunization Week: Now Reaching 180 Countries to Help Close the Gap in Global Health

Submitted by Sabin on Fri, 2012-04-27 00:00

April 27, 2012

Washington, April 27, 2012 -- Health workers are walking, pedaling bicycles, driving cars, rowing boats and riding horses to reach remote areas, urban fringes and displaced communities, where they are giving vaccines against diseases like measles and polio as part of the first World Immunization Week taking place in 180 countries this week.

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