Polio

International Community Calls on WHO To Lead Final Assault on Polio

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 31st, 1999

As Ministers of Health from Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo described the toll of polio on the children in their war-torn countries, the U.S. Secretary of Health led an international call on the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) to bring the war on polio to its successful conclusion.

Rotary International, the leading private sector partner in this global initiative, immediately offered its 1.4 million volunteers to the Director-General as "foot soldiers" in this campaign.

The international call to accelerate the eradication effort came at an extraordinary meeting of governments of key polio-endemic and donor...

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