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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.
Globally, investing in polio eradication helps everyone.
So, as polio nears eradication, the world is on the verge of delivering the first global public good of the new millennium.
The G8 leaders' commitment to increase support for polio eradication in Africa is promising.
Global brands relying on cheap labor have promised eradication.
In the war against the Islamic State, diplomacy will be vital to galvanize an alliance of countries dedicated to the group’s complete eradication – which will, however, have to happen on the battlefield.
I have gone on to live a wonderful life, but the paralysis in my hand is a daily reminder of why we must urgently pursue the eradication of polio and ensure that all children have access to the vaccines that they need.
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.
The health infrastructure put in place during the eradication campaign has enabled the deployment of injectable polio vaccines, which will complement the oral vaccines in ensuring that the virus does not return.
His career as a union leader took him away from agriculture and into politics, where he stood out for his criticism of the United States, whose anti-drug crusade meant the eradication of a cash crop for poor peasants.
Forced eradication risks pushing farmers into the hands of extremists, and thus will not lead to the sustainable reduction of opium fields.
Though alarming in the short term, the eradication of small producers spells good news for those that survived the crisis.
This was easily accomplished, given Bolivia's memory of its losses: the loss of its seacoast to Chile in the War of the Pacific in 1879, of coca crops to the US eradication program, and the country's mineral wealth to transnational corporations.
Complete eradication is in reach, but is still proving elusive, as small outbreaks have plagued one country or another in recent years.
For Annan, the eradication of hunger was not an end but rather a means to creating a more just and peaceful world.
A committee of the UN General Assembly identified 17 target areas, including the eradication of extreme poverty, ensuring education and health for all, and fighting human-induced climate change.
One activist gathered 100,000 signatures on a petition to oppose using the mosquitoes in eradication efforts.
Similarly, eradication of malaria in Spain, Italy, and Greece in the late 1940s (using household spraying of pesticides among other factors) helped bring a boom in tourism and foreign investment to these countries in the 1950s and 1960s.
The aggressive United States-led counter-narcotics policy of crop eradication has failed to win the support of Afghans, because it has triggered a chain reaction of poverty and violence in which poor farmers, with their only livelihood destroyed, are unable to feed their families.
But a successful strategy – one that responds to Afghanistan’s extreme poverty crisis –requires that the international community reverse course on crop eradication.
In fact, the eradication of poppy crops not only damage local communities and undermines the international community’s goals, but it is also failing: opium production last year was at an all-time high.
Eradication will never be successful in Afghanistan, because it destroys the single crop that will grow in the south’s harsh climate – and thus serves as the main source of income to millions of people.
Farmers would gain a sense of ownership in counter-narcotics efforts, in sharp contrast to the current idealistic – and evidently un-achievable – policy of crop eradication.
Pakistan’s Polio Tipping PointISLAMABAD – 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.
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.
Widespread public support for polio eradication efforts has been reflected in a parliamentary resolution.
All political factions must remain committed to the eradication drive if it is to succeed.
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.
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.
India, polio-free for the last two years, is well aware that lasting domestic success depends on eradication efforts elsewhere.
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