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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