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10/01/2010
Launching campaigns in Buddhism's holiest site
The Dalai Lama inaugurated polio vaccination campaigns here today, in Buddhism's holiest site. The campaigns in Bihar state, India, were the first in the country to use the new bivalent oral pol...
16/11/2009
Young pilgrims to the Hajj from polio-infected countries must be immunized with oral polio vaccine, the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia has demanded.
The Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia has once again issued a requirement that all visitors aged unde...
24/10/2009
We're "this close" to eradicating polio
This October, some 162 million children are being vaccinated against polio, in countries from Guinea in west Africa to Nepal in south Asia. This month also marks 95 years since the birth of Jonas Salk, developer...
16/10/2009
Getting real-time campaign coverage data
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is implementing new approaches to improve the quality and impact of eradication strategies. One critical step is to obtain complete and rapid data on supplementary immunizati...
23/06/2009
UN Secretary General recognizes polio workers and volunteers
Birmingham, UK – In the final push to rid the world of a crippling and potentially fatal disease, Rotary International today announced that it has raised US$ 90.7 million toward its US$ 200...
06/03/2009
A landmark polio project puts thousands of newborns on the map every month
In the teeming streets of Uttar Pradesh (UP), ensuring each of the estimated 38 million children in India's most populous state is immunized remains one of the global polio era...
