The Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988 by the health ministers of WHO Member States. The Initiative has been successful in stopping the transmission of this crippling disease in all but three countries of the world, including Pakistan.
Except for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria, Muslim communities and countries everywhere have eradicated polio, including in 54 out of 57 member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that have successfully interrupted transmission of wild poliovirus. This has been achieved through the application of proven eradication strategies, the administration of the safe oral polio vaccine and with financial and political support from the Islamic world.
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Regional polio eradication initiative
Religious leaders help in changing misconceptions about the polio vaccine
