The phrase "an effort to eradicate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing attempts or initiatives aimed at eliminating something undesirable, such as a problem, disease, or social issue.
Example: "The organization launched an effort to eradicate poverty in the region."
Alternatives: "a campaign to eliminate" or "an initiative to remove".
The Peruvian military has responded with commandoes, explosives, and helicopters in an effort to eradicate the illegal gold mining problem.
The coalition will seek to "follow the money," Mr. Allen said, in an effort to eradicate such business by 2008.
There are many different organizations experimenting with mosquitoes in an effort to eradicate malaria and dengue fever — Haenn's colleagues at N.C.
BEIJING, Nov. 8 (AP) — The authorities announced Wednesday a "one dog" policy for many Beijing households as part of an effort to eradicate rabies.
The death came days after the authorities launched a huge campaign to disinfect every poultry farm and bird coop in the country in an effort to eradicate the disease.
A regular in the office, Giorgos Roupakias, was accused of killing an anti-fascist activist in a crime that shocked the nation, and the government began an effort to "eradicate" the group, as Prime Minister Antonis Samaras put it.
The continuing operations north of Ramallah and around Nablus are part of an Israeli effort to eradicate Hamas, the radical group responsible for most of the suicide bombings that have taken hundreds of Israeli lives.
This is an important effort to eradicate poverty and improve peoples' income level (The star online Budget 2014).
Over the course of three days, about 20,000 health workers travelled from house to house in 14 provinces as part of an ongoing effort to eradicate polio in Afghanistan.
The immunization campaign, led by the Afghan Ministry of Public Health and supported by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO), is part of an ongoing effort to eradicate polio, with more than 15,000 health workers due to travel house to house in eleven provinces: Kandahar, Helmand, Nimroz, Zabul, Uruzgan, Ghazni, Paktia, Paktika, Khost, Nangarhar and Kunar.
And then there's Lawrence Brilliant, who worked in the 1970s on a successful effort to eradicate smallpox, a disease that had killed hundreds of millions.
