Polio Eradication
Initiative - IDA Loan Agreement Partnering with the World Bank, Rotary
International, and the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, the UN Foundation provided $13.8 million
in loan funds for Nigeria to purchase oral polio
vaccine. The grant mechanism, process by the World
Bank International Development Association (IDA),
converts a low-interest loan request to grant
status after the loan is purchased at net value.
The $13.8 million will a total of nearly $28 million
in IDA funds to be made available for oral polio
vaccine, helping to decrease the estimated $275
million needed for polio eradication activities
through 2005.
Polio Eradication
Initiative - Wyeth Vaccines and Baxter International
Partnership
Working to stop transmission of the wild polio
virus, the UN Foundation, along with Baxter International
and Wyeth Vaccines, is supporting the strengthening
of surveillance activities in India and the polio
laboratory in Africa. This second multi-year investment
is critically important to the remaining polio
endemic countries.
Tsetse Fly Eradication Promoting health and economic development
in Africa, the UN Foundation, with the U.S. Department
of State, will invest $300,000 in an International
Atomic Energy Agency program that assesses partnership
opportunities for tsetse fly eradication activities.
Eradicating the tsetse fly in Africa will allow
residents to capitalize on major agricultural
and rural development opportunities that are otherwise
inhibited by the tsetse fly's presence, as well
as help eliminate Trypanosomosis, a disease commonly
known as 'sleeping sickness.'
