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In this photo provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, right, and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, left, discuss joint efforts to fight the spread of polio during a meeting in Washington Saturday, January 15, 2011. - Photo by AP
WASHINGTON: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which runs the world’s largest polio eradication campaign, is launching an anti-polio drive in Pakistan from Jan 24, the group’s co-chairman announced in a meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday.
The government has already finalised a national emergency plan for polio eradication and has set up a national task force to monitor and quarterly evaluate its progress. ?
