The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a donation of one billion twenty million dollars for the eradication of polio.
According to a foreign media report, the Gates Foundation announced this donation at a conference in Berlin in which health experts from around the world participated.
Bill Gates, co-chairman of the foundation, said on the occasion that the money will be donated to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a public-private partnership led by national governments that aim to eradicate the disease by 2026. to finish.
Since its inception in 1988, GPEI has helped reduce polio cases by more than 99 percent worldwide and prevented more than 20 million cases of stroke, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said.
The founder Bill Gates said that the eradication of polio is near, but the disease remains a threat.
The announcement comes after the Pan American Health Organization released a landmark report last month that Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Peru are at high risk of polio resurgence.
In addition, the presence of the virus in wastewater in New York state has led to increased efforts to vaccinate residents, as have cases in London and Jerusalem.
Currently, Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries in the world where the wild poliovirus is still endemic, while Malawi and Mozambique have also confirmed cases of polio from other countries during 2022.
According to the Gates Foundation's statement, 'Despite historic progress against polio, the interruption of the vaccination campaign, misinformation about the vaccine, political instability and the recent floods in Pakistan have further emphasized the importance of the final end of the campaign against polio. has made it clear.'
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