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Smallpox, which is believed to have emerged even before rabies, has now been eradicated, and programs are currently under way to put an end to polio, Guinea worm disease, and other infectious ailments.
In recent decades, international and local cooperation have reduced Africa’s malaria deaths by 60% , pushed polio to the brink of eradication, and extended the lives of millions of Africans infected with HIV/AIDS.
When the world took notice that infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, polio, and malaria were ravaging Africa, action plans were drawn up and solutions were delivered.
An independent commission certified the 51 countries of the World Health Organization European Region free of polio.
The will to free the world of polio was underscored at the G8 summit in Canada, where G8 leaders pledged to help finish the job and rid Africa of the disease.
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.
A closely coordinated effort amongst private and public sector partners to deliver oral polio vaccine to every child under five was the key to success.
Globally, international donors and UN agencies worked closely with national governments, tallying the exact needs for massive polio immunization campaigns aimed at reaching hundreds of millions of children.
Last year alone, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative delivered almost two billion doses of polio vaccine to 575 million children in 94 countries.
This close collaboration delivered the polio vaccine to the poorest of the poor, from the child living on a windswept island in the Congo River to the infant living in a tiny alleyway in Delhi.
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.
African heads of state have personally launched polio campaigns synchronized across several countries, vaccinating tens of millions of children over a few days.
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.
Saving children from the agony of polio is a great achievement, but the rewards for global public health are even greater.
A global polio laboratory network gives countries access to the most sophisticated disease surveillance system in the world.
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.
As the worldwide polio burden plummets, we become safer from importations of the virus.
To protect every child, polio must be eradicated globally.
So, as polio nears eradication, the world is on the verge of delivering the first global public good of the new millennium.
This is a small price to pay to ensure that six billion doses of polio vaccine reach 600 million children over the next three years.
The G8 leaders' commitment to increase support for polio eradication in Africa is promising.
Without these funds, polio immunization activities will have to be postponed, cancelled or seriously cut back in several countries.
Failure to eradicate polio for lack of funds would be a squandered opportunity for the world.
Killing Non-Communicable DiseasesSEATTLE – Over the last 25 years, thanks partly to a coordinated global effort to fight infectious diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis (TB), HIV/AIDS, and polio, childhood mortality rates have been reduced by 50%, and average life expectancy has increased by more than six years.
Most children in the world are now protected against measles, tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria, and polio, saving around three million lives a year.
But there is also polio (now eradicated, though many still suffer from its effects), diabetes, civil strife, and other causes – 10 million people in all.
Vaccination’s Lifetime of BlessingsCAPE TOWN – A world in which our children and their children grow up free from the threat of polio and other preventable diseases is a dream that everyone shares.
As a young child in South Africa, I nearly died from polio.
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