The Rocky Road toward Disease Eradication (Video)

“Polio is largely seen as the gold standard for global health professionals working in disease eradication. It's a viral disease that mostly affects children under five by attacking the nervous system and potentially causing irreversible paralysis in a matter of hours but thanks to international collaboration and the leadership of national governments polio cases have fallen. . . “

“It's this incredibly local aspect of the Polio Eradication Initiative that's been the hallmark of the program having vaccinators come from the communities in which they work is so that the level of trust in the vaccinator is very high and then also the extraordinary partnership of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and the fact that we've been in partnership for over 30 years and that were able to leverage the particular expertise of each of the organizations involved.”