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<p align="justify"></p><font color="#ffffff"><i>Wild viruses and wildfires have two things in common.</i></font>

Wipe Out Polio, Now: Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations

Wild viruses and wildfires have two things in common. Full story
  

Polio eradication this week :

  • Ministers of health from around the world will convene at next week’s World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, to set global public health policy. On polio eradication, with ministers’ deliberations, the WHA will consider adopting a Resolution declaring polio eradication a programmatic emergency for global public health.
  • UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns of global polio threat: “Wild viruses and wildfires have two things in common. If neglected, they can spread out of control. If handled properly, they can be stamped out for good. Today, the flame of polio is near extinction — but sparks in three countries threaten to ignite a global blaze. Now is the moment to act.”
  • The Independent Monitoring Board met this week in London, United Kingdom, to review the latest status of the global polio eradication effort.
  


  

From the community, for the community

<div align="justify"><i>Volunteer community mobilizers’ network fully operational in Kebbi State, northern Nigeria</i></div>
Volunteer community mobilizers’ network fully operational in Kebbi State, northern Nigeria


KEBBI (Nigeria), 11th May 2012 – Selected from their respective settlements (villages), 200 volunteer community mobilizers (covering 200 high risk settlements) are now fully operational in Kebbi State, in northern Nigeria. Their mission is to reduce the percentage of missed children through targeted house-to-house interventions to generate demand for and acceptance of oral polio vaccine.

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