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Gates Foundation to commit $1.2b towards polio eradication

BERLIN, Germany – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) yesterday at the World Health Summit, announced it will commit $1.2 billion to support efforts to end all forms of polio

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World leaders, others raise fresh US$1.2bn for polio eradication

… Fund targets US$450m children yearly Global leaders, including foremost non state actors, have raised fresh US$ 1.2 billion to rev the onslaught against poliomyelitis in the three remaining nations

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Nigeria celebrates two years without polio

It is exactly two years that Nigeria recorded its last case of poliomyelitis (a.k.a Polio) and has remained free of the crippling disease ever since. A statement from the National