Global leaders commit $2.6b to end polio: WHO


FE Team | Published: October 18, 2022 20:00:44 | Updated: October 24, 2022 16:14:07


Global leaders commit $2.6b to end polio: WHO

Global leaders committed $2.6 billion in funding at the World Health Summit on Thursday to end polio, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

As per a Reuters report, the funding will support global efforts to overcome the final hurdles to polio eradication, vaccinate 370 million children annually over the next five years and continue disease surveillance across 50 countries, the organisation said.

"The new detections of polio this year in previously polio-free countries are a stark reminder that if we do not deliver our goal of ending polio everywhere, it may resurge globally,” said WHO Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus in a statement.

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