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Polio can cause permanent disability in a child and it is the responsibility of every parent to ensure that their child is given polio drops, said religious heads at the conclusion of a daylong workshop on polio eradication organised by UNICEF and district authorities here on Tuesday.

Rotary International and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) joined hands to address the funding gap in the new strategic plan announced by Global polio eradication Initiative (GPEI) towards polio eradication.

A sustained immunization campaign to eradicate polio from Thane, once identified as a high risk area, has yielded positive results, with not a single case of the dreaded virus reported from the district since 2009.

India has not reported a single polio case in over 200 days. The country’s only polio case reported this year was on January 13 from West Bengal.

The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global polio eradication Initiative (GPEI) on Wednesday admitted that the global plan to stop polio transmission by 2012 is “at risk”.

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi announced its commitment to provide 1.7 billion doses of oral polio vaccine (OPV) to support the global polio eradication initiative's (GPEI) strategy to eradicate polio this decade.

Pakistan has detected a strain of poliovirus in nine samples collected from five cities, according to a top laboratory for disease eradication. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two remaining polio-endemic countries. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has stated that both countries have shown signs of being close to eradicating the disease. Pakistan recently launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year, aiming to vaccinate 44 million children under the age of 5.

Bihar is on the verge of being declared polio-free state with not a single case being detected in the last 16 months.

"Rotary has committed 200 million dollars to polio eradication in the next three years and we hope to see the world free of polio by 2012," Rotary International president-elect John Kenny said on Friday.

State health minister Nand Kishore Yadav on Saturday inaugurated special national workshop of Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) on polio eradication.

Around 3,73,719 migratory children below the age of 5 years were administered polio immunization drops on Sunday, the first day of the 3-day sub-national immunization campaign for Pulse Polio immunization held across Punjab.

NEW DELHI: The polio eradication goal has been delayed by five years following the epidemic in Uttar Pradesh last year. With the virus moving to re-infect at least 10 states this year, Union Health Minister Sushma Swaraj says polio eradication would be possible only by 2005.

BOKARO: While 127 countries of the world including China, the most populous nation on this planet, have been declared polio free, India is still struggling to achieve this goal. It may be by 2006, that India will achieve this target and polio will be eradicated.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday joined an elite club of some world leaders who have been conferred with the prestigious polio eradication Champion Award by the Rotary International’s Polio Plus Committee.

Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute of India collaborate for global polio eradication, with Bharat Biotech sourcing oral polio vaccine drug substance from SII's Dutch subsidiary. The partnership aims to strengthen production and supply security of OPV for global markets.

Rotary International has made a funding commitment of $75 million over the next three years to the Global polio eradication Initiative (GPEI).

United States on Tuesday congratulated India for completing three years without a single new case of polio being reported anywhere in the country.

NEW DELHI: polio eradication seems a distant dream with 66 cases already being reported from eight states so far.

Global superstar and UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador for polio eradication for almost a decade, Mr Amitabh Bachchan is elated with the news that India has officially been declared polio free

When Bill Gates comes visiting to India this March to converse with business tycoons to urge them to get involved in philanthropic activities, there is one effort he will not be able to miss. Rotarians worldwide and in the city have been involved in a massive polio campaign.

LUCKNOW: CM Mayawati has said that from now onwards the polio eradication programme would be launched launched on war-footing.

India could be just a few steps away from eradicating polio. The number of polio cases dropped from 741 in 2009 to a 42 in 2010, a decline of 95%.

The nationwide 'End Polio Now' campaign conducted by six Rotarians to spread the message of polio eradication concluded here on Sunday. The Rotarians who started from Coimbatore on Sunday morning were ushered into the city by a motorcade of 50 vehicles.

GAYA: The ongoing anti polio drive has hit a road block on account of continued resistance in slum pockets where the poor residents are skeptical about the oral drops administered for polio eradication.

Pune-based Serum Institute of India and Netherlands-based Bilthoven Biologicals have joined hands to make inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) available to UNICEF at a subsidized rate to support the programme to reach the Global polio eradication Initiative (GPEI) Endgame Strategic Plan 2013-2018.

Though India is quite close to being declared a polio-free country, the threat of the disease looms large as the next door neighbor Pakistan is still reeling with it.