Sentence examples for polio which has from inspiring English sources

WHO was having to contend with other outbreaks, including polio, which has a high political priority.

The kingdom has become more and more aggressive in its fight against polio, which has hovered on the brink of eradication for years.

Mr. Bloomberg said his foundation gave $125 million to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's project to eradicate polio, which has cost billions.

The battle to eliminate polio, which has been more than 99 percent successful and has hovered on the verge of victory for a decade, has sustained new setbacks.

As a disabled person, after contracting polio, which has affected my right leg, I find that we are still marginalised in Togo – no matter what progress has been made.

But what's really tragic is that Pakistan happens to be at the epicenter of a crucial ongoing vaccination programme: the worldwide campaign to eliminate polio, which has been hampered by opposition from Muslim clerics.

In 1950, Hilary Koprowski showed that it was possible to use his live-virus oral vaccine against polio, which had plagued the United States and other countries for decades.

Polio, which had been absent from the country for several years, is on the rise again.

In fact, it is Vicki's mom who inspired me after college to work with Jonas Salk who developed the polio vaccine (which has eradicated polio from the earth).

Michael currently serves as Global Policy and Advocacy Manager with the Global Poverty Project, where he coordinates a number of campaign initiatives including The End of Polio campaign, which has helped mobilize more than $800 million in support of polio eradication efforts.

It set up a network of doctors operating an early-warning system which detected the outbreaks of disease, including the deadly polio virus which has now re-emerged.