The world nearly beat polio. Here’s what got in the way

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The world nearly beat polio. Here’s what got in the way  Fake immunisation records, an imperfect vaccine, and leadership missteps have enabled polio’s comeback, an investigation found.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/08/05/the-world-nearly-beat-polio-heres-what-got-in-the-way  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00I think what you're seeing in both Pakistan and Afghanistan

00:28is the persistence of polio, despite programs that just haven't reached the kind of quality

00:34needed to get rid of it.

00:36And there are huge challenges, whether they are security challenges or the lack of any

00:41health care or social services in some of the communities that have had it for a long

00:45time, or the polio program itself that has gone through some ups and downs and doesn't

00:51necessarily have the kind of tight management needed.

00:54You add onto that abrupt reductions in funding from the United States, and you have a formula

01:00for real problems in the months and years to come.

01:24You add to that.

01:32and we don't know about the people that we have,

01:34and we can't live.

02:02It's very easy to underestimate the work that has gone before.

02:28We forget the millions of children that have been protected during that whole period.

02:35The program has been trying, not for lack of trying, but there are a lot of externalities

02:43that are also driving the challenges that we have been facing, and hopefully we will

02:48be able to overcome that over the next 12 to 18 months.

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