Coffee with Polio Experts: Professor Rose Leke, Chair of African RCC

Towards a polio-free Africa: A chat with Professor Rose Leke, Chair of the African Regional Certification Commission.

We talk to Professor Rose Leke, Chair of the African Regional Certification Commission, to get her views on progress on the continent, and prospects for certifying the region polio-free in 2019.

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