- Global Polio Eradication Initiative
Includes immunization information and global status updates. From the World Health Organization.
www.polioeradication.org
- Rotary International: PolioPlus
Covers Rotarians' efforts to protect children worldwide from the cruel and fatal consequences of polio. Includes news, fundraising resources, and the Open Projects List.
www.rotary.org/foundation/polioplus/index.html
- CARE: The Last Child
Documentary that tells the behind-the-scenes story of the global campaign to eradicate polio, the dreaded childhood disease that continues to cripple and kill.
www.lastchild.org
- End Polio Now
United Nations Foundation site explaining the global effort to make the world polio-free by 2008.
www.endpolionow.net
- Stop Transmission of Polio (STOP)
Fields teams of medical and public health professionals who work on location around the world. Includes team assignments, photos, and FAQs.
www.cdc.gov/nip/global/stopteam.htm
- Disease Eradication: Friend or Foe to the Health System?
(PDF)
Report to the World Health Organization summarizing studies of the Polio Eradication Initiative in Tanzania, Nepal, and Laos.
www.who.int/vaccines-documents/DocsPDF00/www552.pdf
- IBB: Polio Eradication Project
Offers descriptions of polio, the eradications program's goals and strategies, and a slideshow of images taken by Voice of America reporters.
www.ibb.gov/polioerad
- Milestones in Global Polio Eradication
Fact sheet from UNICEF explaining the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and its impact.
www.unicef.org/newsline/poliopkabout-printer.htm
- When Polio Is Gone, Should We Still Vaccinate?
Contrasts the problems of ending vaccination with maintaining vaccine stocks.
cumicro2.cpmc.columbia.edu/pico/chapters/news897.html
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