Sentence examples for polio eradication drive from inspiring English sources

The club, founded in Chicago in 1905, started the global polio eradication drive in 1988.

The global public health system has a lot staked on the polio eradication drive.

Afghanistan is one of only four remaining polio endemic countries in the world after an 18-year polio eradication drive.

The global polio eradication drive, undertaken with high hopes in 1988, was supposed to succeed by 2000.

"We've never had so many things looking so positive across so many areas," said Dr. Bruce Aylward, director of the polio eradication drive for the World Health Organization.

In 2010, Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama helped initiate a polio eradication drive in India.

Yet the diplomatic hullabaloo is drowning out any discussion of his severe breach of medical ethics and the adverse impact his actions will have on vaccination programs, particularly polio eradication drives, in Pakistan.

At a meeting with President Olusegun Obasanjo last july, UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy, said that the success of the global polio eradication campaign hinged on the success of Nigeria and requested the President's personal commitment to the eradication drive.

The polio eradication campaign in Afghanistan is part of a global effort to rid the world of polio.

They pose a threat to the polio eradication campaign.

An international committee of experts advising the global polio eradication campaign recently described polio transmission in northern Nigeria as "the main threat to eradication in Africa and globally".