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A new film provides an intimate look at efforts to push polio 'The Final Inch' towards eradication in these last pockets of humanity.

Window closing on chance to push polio 'The Final Inch' towards eradication NEW YORK, 3 April 2009 – More than 50 years after the discovery of the first safe and effective polio vaccine, the window is closing on the chance to eradicate the disease for good.

Sudan pushes polio into retreat: Mass immunization drive launched to reach 6.3 million children KHARTOUM, 15 November  - As the latest in a series of major polio immunization drives gets underway in Sudan, the Ministry of Health announced that the polio epidemic that hit the country last year seems finally to be in retreat.

In a push for polio eradication, a polio vaccination campaign was introduced in 1995 as part of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative [ 19] by administering additional oral polio vaccine to all children under five on two national immunization days.

2004 – Final Push for Polio Eradication  Stopping transmission of poliovirus by end-2004 is the overriding objective for all six remaining polio-endemic countries.

Push for polio eradication Jump to media player Member states of the WHO, meeting in Geneva, are expected to declare polio a global public health emergency, and will launch one last push to finally eradicate the disease.

The last push on polio, begun in 1988 with the funeral planned for 2000, has consumed $5 billion.

But Mr Gates will also acknowledge that the final push against polio is proving extremely difficult: "I can say without reservation that the last mile is not only the hardest mile; it's also much harder than I expected," he said.

The agency is providing technical expertise and supplies in high-risk areas to push toward polio eradication.

"We are at a historic moment," said Executive Director Lake, referring to the final push for polio eradication despite recent setbacks.

UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake visited Angola this week to help strengthen the political and financial commitment to the final push for polio eradication.