Sentence examples for drive polio from inspiring English sources

Determination to drive polio out of the country once more is high.

The aim is to reach a hundred million children and drive polio out of Africa for good.

This program, recently employed in India, is a pivotal part of the strategy to drive polio out of India – one of only six countries worldwide where the disease is endemic.

And third, UNICEF proposes that we redouble our efforts to completely eliminate guinea worm disease, using the same determination and commitment to partnership that have helped UNICEF, WHO and our partners in civil society drive polio to the brink of eradication.

By the start of 2003, Africa had driven polio back to only 2 countries:  Nigeria and Niger, with 204 cases reported.

Pakistan has recorded only six cases to date in 2005, while Nigeria has largely driven polio out of its southern states, immunizing a record number of children in the past round.

Strategic partnerships are at the heart of that work, as we learned in the 1990s, when the best-known gains for children, such as the vast child immunisation drive that has driven polio to the brink of eradication, grew out of collaborations encompassing the entire spectrum of society.

Pakistan's drive against polio has been thrown into chaos after a foreign doctor was shot in the southern port city of Karachi, a day after the Taliban reiterated a ban on immunisation in the country's tribal areas.

The group, which includes the International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps and Care, said that as well as damaging the drive against polio and other health problems in Pakistan, the CIA's tactics had endangered the lives of foreign aid workers.

Today the struggling drive against polio has raised new questions about whether eradication of any disease is achievable, and, if so, whether the cost in terms of effort and dollars would be worth it, given all the other diseases that need attention.

DAKAR/BRAZZAVILLE, 26 October 2010 This weekek, Africa seizes an unprecedented chance to drive out polio when 15 countries across the continent launch a synchronized mass immunization campaign to reach 72 million children, capitalizing on gains made this year.