Statement by Ted Turner, Chairman of the Board of Directors
(Vocus/PRWEB ) November 26, 2007 -- We acclaim the above advertisement today by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advice Rotary International barrage a final advance to activate accessible affair and clandestine contributions to advice eradicate polio. Were about there. Polio is alone ancient in four countries and this analogous admission of $100 actor will advice to annihilate this preventable, crippling disease.
With this renewed absorption and support, Rotary will abide its plan with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative led by the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This amazing accumulation accomplishment has helped to drive the amount of polio cases down from added than 350,000 to beneath than 1,000-a bead of added than 99 percent.
The UN Foundation is appreciative to accept been complex in this accomplishment for the accomplished decade, and we are acerb committed to plan with Rotary to ensure that the all-around accomplishment has the assets bare to forward polio the way of baby pox and annihilate it from the planet."
About the United Nations Foundation
The UN Foundation, created in 1998 with administrator and philanthropist Ted Turners celebrated $1 billion allowance to abutment UN causes and activities, builds and accouterments public-private partnerships that abode the worlds a lot of acute problems. Its partnerships and campaigns accept all-around reach, and cut above assorted affair areas, including: attention biodiversity and announcement acceptable development; accouterment insecticide-treated bed nets to anticipate the advance of malaria in Africa; and accretion acceptance to technology for all-embracing altruistic abatement and accessible bloom workers. For added advice about the United Nations Foundation, appointment www.unfoundation.org.
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