:: WHO aims to eradicate Polio by 2005 ::
Before the
World Health Organisation launched it's
Polio Eradication programme in 1988 there were
350,000 cases in 125 countries each year...
Last year there were
235 cases worldwide, mostly in
India, Nigeria + Pakistan.
Plans are now in place to
immunize 175 million children in these three countries by the end of the year, and to totally
eradicate Polio by 2005.
Although "doable" the WHO is now seeking
$220 million in order to ensure that this work goes ahead....
It is also requesting that countries
destroy all their non-essential stocks of Polio and
register any laboratory stock they intend to keep for research in order to help prevent even one case of this paralysing disease threatening the world again.
Most of the
$3 billion so far spent on this initiative has come from
W.H.O.,
UNICEF, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta,
Rotary International and other partners...
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