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Posted on Nov 03, 2016 An army of women and men like Hina are on the front lines of the war on polio in Pakistan. As a polio worker with the World Health Organization (WHO), she is responsible for 223 households in her own neighborhood, tracking pregnancies and births to ensure that every child is vaccinated against the virus. During this week’s subnational immunization campaign, she works eight hours every day to ensure that she visits every home and immunizes every child. How I find myself here with her – in a poor suburb of Peshawar, a city near the Khyber Pass on the Pakistani-Afghan border – still surprises me. In 2011, I was fired from my position as the chief financial officer of a global food and beverage company, and I launched a new career as a writer. After joining the Rotary Club of Salt Lake Ci

Posted by Pat Chernesky Afganistan Africa CoVid-19 Pakistan PolioPlus Virus I am pleased and honoured to be the “Polio Plus/End Polio Now” District Chair for 2020-2021! Thanks to DG Gailmarie for this exciting opportunity; I look forward to sharing news about progress in polio eradication by providing regular updates and assisting you in any way that I am able! GOOD NEWS!! The WHO has certified the African region free of wild polio virus on August 25th, four ye

Posted by Ed Iskra on Feb 01, 2012 Chester Draper was born in Emo, Ontario. At age thirteen, in 1953 he, his four siblings and parents lived in Atikokan. He was an active healthy 110 lb boy, barely a teenager when he and his sister suddenly contracted polio. Polio affects people in different ways. His sister was afflicted in the upper chest and died within 24 hours. On the day he caught polio he recalled walking home and suddenly feeling very weak. When he made it home his mother had him taken to the hospital immediately. There was no treatment for polio then, only quarantine and isolation. The viral stage lasts for one to two weeks. Within a month he lost the use of his legs and his weight dropped to just 45 lbs. Chester recalled that although their home had been quarantined by the health authorities the neighbours were very supportive. His parents were determined to get the best treat

Posted on Jan 13, 2017 Image: Rotary International In response, Nigeria intensified surveillance activities to pinpoint where the virus is circulating. In Pakistan, innovative tactics are being used to focus polio immunization drives. Health workers are trained in the use of cellphone data reporting, which allows real-time recording of immunization coverage and public health surveys of populations. In Afghanistan, the program continues to adapt in order to reach the maximum number of children possible despite a volatile security situation. 155: the number of countries involved in largest coordinated vaccine switch in history There are three different strains of the poliovirus. Once a strain is eliminated (type 2 was officially eradicated in September 2015), we have to match our va

Posted on Sep 30, 2019 Clean Water Creating Jobs Nigeria PolioPlus Preventing Disease The Rotarian Water But after receiving a hand-operated tricycle funded through Rotary’s PolioPlus grants, Ali (pictured above) can now spend that money on other necessities. His life was changed by the “plus” in PolioPlus.When we talk about PolioPlus, we know we are

Posted by John Borst On 23 February, Rotary's 105th anniversary, a Kick Polio Out of Africa campaign launched with the symbolic kicking of a soccer ball signed by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, a polio survivor. The journey began in Cape Town, South Africa, one of the host cities for the 2010 World Cup.The ball will travel through 22 polio-affected countries en route to the RI Convention in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in June. The primary sponsor of the campaign is DHL Express. During the ball's four-month journey, Rotary clubs in the polio-affected countries will hold soccer-related polio awareness events to mobilize public support for immunization activities. Along the way, the ball will be signed by each national PolioPlus committee chair. Follow the ball's journey on the Kick Polio Out of Africa blog. An interactive map show

January 9, 2023At a recent gathering of Dryden Rotarians, club president Patty Vann received a certificate from District 5550 Governor, Fred Wright, in recognition of the Dryden club's contributions to PolioPlus. The PolioPlus initative was launched by Rotary International in 1985 and was the first and largest internationally coordinated private-sector support of a public health initiative. The eradication of polio is one of Rotary International's longest standing and most significant efforts. Along with its partners, Rotary has helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children against polio in 122 countries and reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent worldwide. For more information about Rotary and its polio eradication efforts: https://www.rotary.org/en/our-causes/ending-polio.