Globally, investing in polio eradication helps everyone.

Widespread public support for polio eradication efforts has been reflected in a parliamentary resolution.

The G8 leaders' commitment to increase support for polio eradication in Africa is promising.

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

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.

ISLAMABAD Early this month, tragedy struck Pakistan s polio eradication campaign once again with the killing of two more polio workers and a policeman on patrol with the vaccination teams.

Smallpox was eradicated even in the most remote impoverished countries polio is well is on its way to eradication.

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

So, as polio nears eradication, the world is on the verge of delivering the first global public good of the new millennium.

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

When this ambitious eradication program was launched in 1988, polio was paralyzing more than 1,000 children every day in 125 countries on five continents.

Pakistan s Polio Tipping Point

Vaccines have eradicated smallpox, pushed polio to the verge of eradication, and saved millions of children from measles, diphtheria, tetanus, and other deadly and disabling diseases.

Pakistan must increase its efforts on polio eradication for reasons that go beyond fulfilling a global health promise (which is reason enough in its own right).

Eradication of poverty

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is also fostering unprecedented public health action among nations in order to beat remaining pockets of polio in south Asia and parts of Africa. In the midst of uncertainty following the terrorist attacks of September 11 th , the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan, determined not to let the conflict sidetrack progress in polio eradication, immunized 35 million of their children in coordinated efforts in September and November 2001.

Pakistan s Winnable War on Polio

Through collective support for polio eradication, health ministries now have the knowledge, the maps, the staff and the will of millions of volunteers to do even more.

This is Pakistan s fight against polio.

For Pakistan, the irony is that the country has been a success story for polio eradication, with the number of cases falling from 197 in 2011 to 58 in 2012.

The simultaneous scaling back of the local government system, along with the divisive politics of coalition governments in Pakistan s fragile democracy, continues to undermine implementation of the polio eradication program.

III. Development and poverty eradication

Last year, India once thought to be the most difficult place to stop polio was declared polio free.

Polio u0027s Defeat and Its Global Meaning

The success to date of the polio eradication program clearing a huge swathe of the earth of an ancient scourge demonstrates what can be achieved when simple technology is used effectively.

Smallpox was eradicated even in the most remote impoverished countries polio is well is on its way to eradication. Immunization campaigns, when properly funded, have reached huge proportions of very poor children.

At the same time, local governments difficulties are having an adverse effect on provision of clean water and proper sanitation, which are vitally important for polio eradication and public health more broadly.

Policies for the eradication of poverty

Bruce Aylward How we'll stop polio for good

Polio strikes the poorest communities in the world.

Following through on polio eradication by extending the reach of vaccines to all children who need them is an opportunity for all of us to stand together on behalf of our global community.

ISLAMABAD Early this month, tragedy struck Pakistan s polio eradication campaign once again with the killing of two more polio workers and a policeman on patrol with the vaccination teams. The latest murders in Pakistan preceded the killing of nine polio workers in Nigeria, and follow the slaying of another nine Pakistani health workers in December and the New Year s Day murders of development workers affiliated with public health efforts.

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.

Here's a great idea to spread End polio now.

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

All agree that eradication is decades away.

We should abandon this idea of eradication.

Global response for the eradication of poverty

But as the partners were preparing to declare Pakistan a polio free country the number of polio cases jumped to 93 in 2013.

Or polio? How many of you remember the iron lung?

And Afghanistan, Afghanistan, we think has probably stopped polio repeatedly.

Subsequently, Albert Sabin developed another live, oral polio vaccine (OPV).

Without major donations, eradication efforts are on hold.

Pockets of polio transmission also persist in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

Soon after, USAID funded its own big eradication program.