Canada funds polio eradication efforts
The Canadian government has announced $151 million in funds to combat polio worldwide.
The money will help vaccinate more than 370 million children annually, provide disease surveillance and monitoring, improve campaigning, and fortify health systems.
The announcement brings Canadaโs contribution to the international drive to eliminate polio to $1 billion over the past two decades.
Since 1988, more than 2.5 billion children have been vaccinated against polio.
However, while the world has seen a 99 per cent reduction in polio cases, the disease has not been eradicated.
Following Israelโs war in Gaza, polio resurfaced in the besieged strip this year for the first time in 25 years.
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