Anti-polio drive gets $200m boost - BBC Health News 26th November 2007

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The global campaign to eradicate polio has been given a grant of $200m (£97m) from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Rotary International. It comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for more donations to boost its drive to eradicate the disease altogether. In the last 20 years, immunisation programmes have dramatically cut the number of new polio cases.

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