Video 106 million drops - Kick Polio out of West Africa

An national and international efforts to reach 53 million children and kick polio out of West Africa
The action is being organized as part of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a partnership spearheaded by WHO, Rotary International, the US Center for Diseases Control and Prevention and UNICEF.
The synchronized cross-border polio campaign will take place in 8 countries simultaneously: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Togo, in coordination with Nigeria.
The campaign was scheduled in two rounds: the first from 27 February to 2 March and the second from 27 to 30 March 2009.
More than 162,000 trained immunizers will aim to reach every child with a polio vaccine (67,000 for Nigeria only). A total of 66 millions doses of vaccine are made available for each round of the campaign (33 million for Nigeria only).

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• polio
• benin
• togo
• nigeria
• niger
• burkina
• mali
• cotedivoire
• ghana
• unicef
• who
• rotary
• cdc

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nice vide....