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Commonwealth Government Leaders Pledge Millions Of Additional Funds To Fight Polio
"Commonwealth government leaders meeting in Australia agreed Saturday to step up efforts to eradicate polio worldwide, despite the Afghanistan war setting back vaccination efforts there and in neighboring Pakistan," the Associated Press reports (10/29). "Leaders from Britain, Canada, Australia and Nigeria, and" representatives of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "on Saturday pledged tens of millions of dollars in extra funding to wipe out the disease" in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria -- the four countries where polio remains endemic, Reuters states (10/29).
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