Not long after denote a$100 million donationto detect a cure for Alzheimer ’s disease , Bill and Melinda Gates have agreed to pay off off Japan ’s $ 76 million loan to Nigeria to stamp out polio , Quartz cover .
Polio has been eradicated in most countries around the man , but it ’s still present in Nigeria , as well asin Afghanistan and Pakistan . In 2008,according toThe Conversation , Nigeria accounted for 86 percent of all polio case in Africa . This high-pitched number was thanks in part to small immunization rate and call from extremist to boycott infantile paralysis inoculation out of fearfulness that they were cloud with anti - fertility steroid .
National and international campaigns were launched to lower polio rates in Nigeria , and in 2014 the Carry Nation received the loanword from Japan to boost disease - press efforts . Progress has been made since then , with no new cases of polio reported in Nigeria in 2017.Two childrenhad undertake poliomyelitis in 2016 , two years after Nigeria ’s last known case .
Nigeria ’s loan quittance to Japan were slated to begin in 2018 . The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation agreed to track the price after Nigeria met its finish of " achieving more than 80 percent vaccination reportage in at least one circle each year in very mellow risk areas across 80 pct of the country ’s local politics region , " Quartz report . The loan will be rejoin over the next 20 age .
While the Gates Foundation is lending a mitt to Nigeria , the Associated Pressreportsthat health officials in Pakistan ’s eastern Punjab province recently launched a new chapter in the nation’songoing struggleagainst the disease . wellness workers will engage in a week - foresighted , room access - to - door inoculation hunting expedition , though efforts like this are hazardous due to threats from the Taliban and other belligerent mathematical group , who watch vaccination as a Western conspiracy and believe they sterilize tiddler . Anti - polio effort in Pakistan also suffered after theCIA used vaccinationsas a cover charge to get desoxyribonucleic acid samples from the Bin Laden chemical compound .
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