With his emotional involvement in polio eradication evident, Dr. Lee said, "No job today, including the director-general's job in W.H.O., is more important than leading this polio campaign".
KATUTURA TOWNSHIP, Namibia, 22 June 2006 – It was 4 p.m. at Okuryangava Health Clinic in Katutura Township, a community on the outer edge of the capital city of Windhoek, and the nursing sister leading the polio immunization team had the dazed, weary and yet immensely satisfied look of someone who had just won an extremely hard race.
That's why Maher, who is 53 and has been fighting polio for more than 20 years, is in nearby Amman leading the biggest polio outbreak response ever attempted in the Middle East.
He firmly believes in the power of vaccination, and said his wife and he were among the leading funders of polio eradication.
The Foundation eventually became the March of Dimes, and was responsible for funding the research leading to the polio vaccine.
If we can tackle the mind-set leading to refusals of polio drops, we can remove an entire disease and redeploy the resources to other areas within our health system that are desperately in need of them.
KABUL, 13 April 2003 - A three-day immunization campaign against polio, the leading cause of disability in Afghanistan, is poised to start across the country this Tuesday, 15 April.
Year's first nationwide polio immunizations to continue fight against debilitating diseases KABUL, 13 April 2003 - A three-day immunization campaign against polio, the leading cause of disability in Afghanistan, is poised to start across the country this Tuesday, 15 April.
Large-scale nation-wide vaccination campaigns have been implemented successfully over the past decades in China for other viral diseases, e.g., hepatitis B and polio vaccination, leading to decreased mortality and morbidity.
