Global leaders pledge to fight polio

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Agence France-Presse

World leaders Saturday added their weight to a push to eradicate polio, pledging millions of dollars in new funds to bring an end to the crippling and potentially fatal disease.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who is hosting the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, said her country would spend Aus$50 million ($53.5 million) over four years towards the global fight.

“While polio remains anywhere in the world it is a threat to anyone,” she told a joint news conference with leaders from Britain, Canada and two of the world’s four polio endemic countries — Pakistan and Nigeria — by her side.

“We are here today to demonstrate our commitment to ending the fight against polio, that is ending polio for all time.”

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I was crippled by this diease at age two, and I hope that they it eradicate forever...

[jwirr]

1. That was the epidemic of my youth. Lost friends. I hope we can do

this in our lifetime. Horrible decease.