ive health investments. At the recent Global Vaccine Summit, held in Abu Dhabi, Canada announced a historic $250 million contribution to polio eradication red bottom shoes for women in support of the Endgame cheap louboutin Plan. This comprehensive six year plan maps out how we can reach a polio free world by 2018. This new commitment will help the Global Polio Eradication Initiative implement strategies and programs to eradicate polio and strengthen health systems, especially in the three countries where polio is a persistent problem: Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. It will also support efforts to ensure the supply of quality immunizations and the use of innovative technologies for immunization programs, including infrastructure for disease surveillance and response systems. With the end of this terrible disease in sight, we applaud all those who have helped the world come this far, including Canadian Rotarians and organizations like the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, which are steadfastly committed to seeing all children vaccinated against the disease. Following their outstanding decades long effort which has to date raised over a billion dollars, Rotarians have again engaged Canadians and raised christian louboutin outlet online significant funds to fight polio in the past several months. The Government of Canada and the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation will match $2.27 million raised by 25,000 Canadian Rotarians, for a total contribution of $6.8 million. Furthermore, the End of Polio campaign, an initiative of the Global Poverty Project, has engaged more than 1200 Canadians across the country, together cheap michael kors with Diaspora, community leaders, and Parliamentarians, voicing support for Canada's commitment to polio eradication. But dollars alone are not enough to carry us across the finish line. It will require community wide support to enable the success of vaccination efforts. While success is on the horizon, access to those who most need vaccination remains a major challenge. There are many polio immunization workers who still face precarious situations and the threat of michael kors factory online violence for their work. Canada has called on religious, government, and community leaders at home and around the world, to further buttress efforts to eradicate the disease by promoting science based information and safe access for immunization workers. If we fail to eradicate polio we run the risk of polio returning, infecting hundreds of thousands of children. We are at a crucial, opportune moment in history. By investing and taking action, we will
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