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Not surprisingly, the 2002 elections turned on the explosive coca eradication issue.
A second reason is that the UN has included the eradication of chronic poverty in its new Sustainable Development Goals.
Only by defeating the FARC and eliminating its cocaine and heroin production through an eradication policy of crop spraying and subsidizing cash-crop alternatives, can he guarantee security to all Colombians.
In Afghanistan, that so-called war has essentially been based on eradication campaigns and alternative livelihood projects, which have achieved only scant results.
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, despite concerted efforts at eradication and crop substitution, Afghanistan produced 87% of the world’s opium in 2005 – roughly 4.1 tons – generating $2.7 billion of illegal revenue, which amounts to roughly 52% of the country’s GDP.
But eradication and alternative livelihood projects mainly affect the lowest end of the value-added chain, the farmers, with no real impact on those higher up, such as large landowners and local traffickers, not to mention the extremely powerful drug lords and the international cartels and mafias.
It would also provide Afghan peasants, who have been growing poppy despite forced eradication of the plant and incentives to change crops, with an option that is regulated by law and that, in time, could have an impact on the heroin trade.
The central ambition is bold: the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030.
UN efforts have also led to the eradication of many infectious diseases; the adoption in 1982 of the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the principal framework for handling maritime disputes; and the establishment in 1988 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose regular reports play an important role in assessing hazards related to climate change.
Brazil’s Zero Hunger strategy, by contrast, has shown that adopting the absolute goal of hunger eradication provides a powerful means of galvanizing government departments into large-scale coordinated action, and of mobilizing society in a truly national effort to end one of the greatest injustices of our time.
There is nothing really new about a commitment to hunger eradication.
The FAO has accepted this challenge, and is formally setting its sights on hunger eradication.
We have continued to see meaningful reductions in infant mortality and malnutrition, and there have been massive strides toward eradication of polio, measles, malaria, and illiteracy.
For many in the field of public health, the greatest triumph achieved by medicine in this century was the eradication of smallpox.
Polio eradication is one.”
But there are reasons to wonder whether continued efforts at polio eradication – as opposed to aggressive and effective disease management and control – is the right course to follow.
If polio eradication is the goal for current public-heath campaigns, it is important to recognize exactly what target is being set.
Talk of eradication means permanent relief from a disease, and thus permission to let down our guard against it.
For starters, the surveillance required to establish eradication is a huge challenge.
Fragile health-care infrastructure and community support are being strained by the eradication effort, as government budgets and resources in poor countries are diverted from more pressing local problems.
For this reason alone, no trust should be placed in claims of eradication of diseases like polio.
Of course, the eradication of polio is a noble goal.
Those involved in efforts aimed at complete eradication should rethink their goal, lest faith in the unattainable leads to disaster.
After decades of eradication efforts, the virus remained stubbornly endemic in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria.
The barriers to polio eradication are no longer medical; the disease does not occur where vaccination programs operate unhindered.
The two other polio-endemic countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan, missed their 2015 eradication target and have had to extend it by another year, at a cost of $1.5 billion.
Politicians and policymakers should be reminded that a polio-free world would be a global public good, that eradication is by far the best bargain, and that sustained financing and political support is necessary to ensure the GPEI’s success.
More broadly, lessons from the GPEI and other eradication efforts must not go unlearned.
World Polio Day is thus an occasion to urge politicians to renew their commitments to polio eradication, and to apply lessons from the GPEI to improve health everywhere.
Other European countries and the European Commission itself should do more to contribute to the eradication effort.
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