Only eradication will guarantee that all children are safe.
I endorsed eradication as the ultimate goal for the future.
Polio eradication has benefited immensely from having Rotary's support. Rotary had the vision to get involved in 1985 and has kept polio eradication as its top priority.
Nothing has been more God-like than our eradication of smallpox and near eradication of polio, But few sane people regret this.
Economic modelling has established that significant financial benefits will also accrue from eradication.
Knowledge of the poliovirus has expanded with aggressive research carried out under the eradication effort.
But it is much less than the eradication of anti-India militancy that India demands.
The final goal should be the eradication of the term “migrant worker” entirely.
I must remind you. We need to finish the job of polio eradication, as guided by the ongoing independent evaluation.
Polio is close to eradication, and 37 countries are reaching 60% or more of their children with measles immunization.
This was encouraging. But it is much less than the eradication of anti-India militancy that India demands.
However, smallpox no longer occurs, following its worldwide eradication in 1980, whereas monkeypox still occurs sporadically in parts of Africa.
For me, seeing creative, cutting-edge science applied to a disease that mainly affects the poor is almost as uplifting as the decision to aim for eradication.
This year saw a hugely effective reply to the largest multi-country epidemic of polio since the eradication initiative began in 1988.
Each bloom a small sunburst, its breeze-catching seeds a source of childhood delight, it's also the prime villain of a lawn-care industry dedicated to its eradication.
Government spokesmen habitually present the struggle with the Tigers as simply the eradication of terrorists, who are as loathed by ordinary Tamils as they are by Sinhalese.
The expanded programme on immunization, a legacy of smallpox eradication, was a success story, but coverage had reached a stubborn plateau.
A Canadian physician and epidemiologist, Dr Aylward is the author of some 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles as well as a number of book chapters on immunization and disease eradication.
You will be seeing today new data that show why, over a 20-year period, every proposed option for controlling polio will cost more, in human suffering and dollars, than finishing eradication.
Similar momentum this year should put an end to the transmission of polio in this particularly crowded corner of the world, which has proven a challenge to global eradication efforts.
