Polio

Disability-Related Housing Complaints Soar

AOL Real Estate | Teke Wiggin | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Eleanor Smith, Disabled, Video, Polio, Ken Walden, National Fair Housing Counsel, Disability, Housing Discrimination, Concrete Change, Fair Housing Act, Impact News

AOL Real Estate: Eleanor Smith vividly recalls the first time she experienced housing discrimination. Then in her 30s, Smith and a friend had be...

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Good Things Come in Different-Sized Packages

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Polio, Expanded Programme on Immunization, Measles, Unicef, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Ivac, GAVI Alliance, World Health Organization, Vaccines, Project Optimize, Video, Impact News

Decisions around vaccine container size and type -- whether single-dose vial, multi-dose container or pre-filled syringe -- have important implications for a variety of stakeholders.

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My Dad Cheated Death, and Others Can Too

Alanna Levine, M.D., F.A.A.P. | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: World Immunization Week, Polio, Global Motherhood, Shot at Life, Children's Health, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines, Impact News

World Immunization Week is a call to action but for me, as a pediatrician and a mom, it also serves as a reminder of how lucky we, as Americans, are to have access to critical preventative vaccines.

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First Steps Toward the Last Mile in Nigeria

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Nigeria, Ivac, Immunization, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Parents, Vaccines, Meningitis, Polio, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Diphtheria, Tetanus, NIgeria Vaccine Summit, Orin Levine, Pertussis, Impact News

Likewise, as one of only three remaining countries in the world with endemic polio transmission, they have recently ramped up efforts to eradicate polio from the country, and thereby, help rid it from the entire world.

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The Wrong Policy Prescription for Pakistan's Vaccine Program

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Vaccination, Polio, World Health Organization, Immunization, Pakistan, Behavioral Economics, Parents, World News

Just because legislating immunization coverage works in the United States doesn't mean it will work in Pakistan. The main reason is that the drivers of under-vaccination in Pakistan and the United States are fundamentally different.

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Few Celebrating MDG Success in Water

Ned Breslin | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Global Health, Polio, Millennium Development Goals, Polio Vaccine, United Nations, Clean Water, Clean-Water, Public Health, Unicef, Drinking Water, Sanitation, Impact News

Access means that there is a tap nearby that people could use. Functionality means that water actually flows from that tap. Far too often the tap does not produce water, so it is therefore not effective at what the Millennium Development Goal is really trying to do -- eradicate water poverty.

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India No Longer On Polio List

Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: India, Polio, Singh, India Polio Battle, India Who, Mahmohan Singh, India Polio, Who Polio List, India Polio List, India Who Polio, World News

NEW DELHI -- India marked a major success in its battle against polio Saturday by being removed from the World Health Organization's list of count...

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Bill Gates: The Global Fund is "One of the Most Effective Ways We Invest Our Money"

Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Bill and Melinda Gates, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Davos, Foreign Aid, International Development, Results, Bill Gates, Polio, Tb, Global Economic Forum, Impact News

We know we can end AIDS. It was a pretty good year and an absolutely astounding decade.

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Polio Eradication Within Reach as India Takes Giant Step Forward

Timothy E. Wirth | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: India, Polio, UN Foundation, United Nations, World News

This week the world celebrates a major milestone in the global fight against polio. On January 13, India will mark one year in which no child was paralyzed by polio -- for the first time in history.

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India Marks a Milestone for Child Health

Bill Gates | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: India, Rotary International, Polio, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Unicef, World Health Organization, Impact News

In 2009, India had more polio cases than any other country in the world. But much has changed since then, and this Friday will mark a full year since the last case of wild poliovirus was detected in India.

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The One-Legged "Yogini"

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Iyengar-Yoga, Yoga, Polio, Eastern Teachings, New Jersey, Suffering, Fifties, Dharma, India, Kofi Busia, Gym, Enlightenment, Teaching, Compassion, Healthy Living News

You would think that, as an Iyengar-style yoga teacher of three (mere) years' standing, I might at least notice if a one-legged yogini (female yoga student) "walked" into my classroom. Reader, I did not notice.

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A Call To Action In Advance Of World Polio Day

Bill Gates | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: India, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Polio, Australia, United Kingdom, Chad, Pakistan, Nigeria, Canada, Polio Vaccine, Activism, Impact News

World Polio Day is simultaneously a celebration and a call to action. It's a celebration because in the past 20 years, polio cases are down 99 percent. But it's also a call to action because we haven't done enough yet.

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China Vaccinates 9 Million Amid Polio Outbreak

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: China Polio Outbreak, Polio, Hotan Prefecture, China Polio Vaccination, Polio-Vaccination, China Polio, China, Xinjiang, World News

BEIJING — Chinese health authorities have vaccinated more than 9 million people in a far western region against polio amid an outbreak of the di...

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Staff Benda Bilili: A Triple Win

Wyatt Closs | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Leigh Ann Hahn, Crammed Discs, Polio, California-Plaza, Los Angeles Theater Center, La Impact, Africa, Buena Vista Social Club, Africa Polio, Grand Performances, Music, Congo, Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Staff Benda Bilili, Los Angeles News

With a mix of regular and self-made instruments, some have compared them as the next big world music thing since the Buena Vista Social Club.

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Making a Difference: August Is Immunization Awareness Month

Lisa M. Dietlin | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, Polio, Rotary International, Cdc, Senior Citizens, Charity, Children, Polio Vaccine, Itzhak Perlman, Chicago Tribune, Immunization, Children's Health, Seniors, Vaccines, Back to School, Impact News

With children and adults going back to school in the fall, many schools require immunizations to be up to date in order to enroll. The purpose of Immunization Awareness Month is to promote the benefits of immunization.

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More Than a Goal: End Polio

Bill Gates | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health, Rotary International, Polio, Bill Gates, Soccer, Fc Barcelona, Impact News

Stopping the fight now is simply not an option. If we don't do the really hard work to eradicate polio now, the disease will come back with a vengeance. Polio anywhere is a threat everywhere.

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Adapting to a New World of Invisible Toxins

William Spear | Posted 06.24.2011

It's a whole new ballgame, folks. Nearly every community in the modern world is facing an invisible enemy. Constant exposures to toxic loads in our en...

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My 2011 Annual Letter

Bill Gates | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health, Polio, Bill Gates, Global Poverty, Vaccines, Impact News

This year I am making the case against cutting foreign aid for the poorest, even in the current budget environment. Whether you think it's an issue of morality or enlightened self-interest, aid spending is uniquely effective spending.

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Rotary International Names Dynamic New General Secretary

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rotary International, Conflict, Sri Lanka, Leogane, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sustainable Development, Marshall Scholar, Oiww, Tsunami, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Jim Luce, John Hewko, Rotary Foundation, Harvard Law School, Oxford University, India, Baker & McKenzie, Polio, World Health Organization, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Orphans International Worldwide, Usaid, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Impact News

There are 1.2 million Rotarians in 33,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas, and they couldn't have a more capable general secretary than John Hewko.

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4 Percent of Us Consume 50 Percent of All Health Care

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cambodia, Polio, American Health Care, Measles, Water, Angkor Hospital for Children, Vaccines, American Health Care System, Health Care Debate, Plastic Surgery, Health Care, Impact News

Our humanity, if not our common sense, tells us that something is wrong when 4 percent of the world's population consumes half of the world's health care.

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Polio's Last Mile

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Africa, Eradication, Pakistan, Polio Vaccine, Nigeria, Sendhil Mullainathan, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Bill Gates Foundation, Bangladesh, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Polio, Ted, Vaccine, Afghanistan, Gates Foundation, Tedindia, India, Impact News

Nobody seems to be saying that polio eradication isn't possible, but the tricky part is the last mile.

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Paying It Forward In Africa

Ann Cotton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, Girls Education, Africa, Polio, Philanthropy, Africa Charity, Africa Philanthropy, Impact News

The culture of philanthropy is alive and very well in Africa. International aid strengthens and extends it, but in the communities where I have spent time, it is all-pervasive.

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Fighting Polio, Two Drops At A Time

The Huffington Post | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greatest Person of the Day, India, Polio, National Imminization Day, Uttar Pradesh, Impact News

They call it "the two drops of life," said Anil Garg. The two drops of a pinkish, transparant liquid that can change a child's life: the vaccine for ...

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Gates, Buffett Ask India's Big Shots To Chip In On Polio Eradication

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Melinda Gates, The Giving Pledge, Giving Pledge, Bill Gates, India, Polio, Bill Gates Foundation, Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Gates Foundation, Warren Buffet, Warren Buffett, Impact News

Over the next six months, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett will travel to to India to ask top business officials to ante up to end polio. Gates highlig...

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Vaccines Save Lives

Bill Gates | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Gates 2011 Annual Letter, Philanthropy, Polio, Charity, Bill Gates, Gates Foundation, Vaccines, Bill Gates Vaccines, Impact News

The vaccine for polio has helped the world get to the threshold of something amazing: eradicating the disease altogether.

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