Vaccine rumors, funding shortfall threaten to derail global polio eradication efforts

Article Abstract:

The WHO, the United Nations Children's Fund, the US centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Rotary International, have spent about $3 billion to eradicate the polio disease since they issued a mandate in 1988. According to WTO, a funding gap of $130 million, out of the total annual budget of $765 million through 2005, threatens to force the vaccination program to cut back on outreach.

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Vaccine rumors, funding shortfall threaten to derail global polio eradication efforts

Article Abstract:

The WHO, the United Nations Children's Fund, the US centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Rotary International, have spent about $3 billion to eradicate the disease since they issued a mandate in 1988. According to WTO, a funding gap of $130 million, out of the total annual budget of $ 765 million through 2005, threatens to force the vaccination program to cut back on outreach.

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In era of tight funds, NIH seeks to nurture new scientists and novel ideas

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Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA), a project launched and funded by the National Institutes of Health will probably overcome the constraints faced by cuts in the federal budget for research.

United States, Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Financial management, Government regulation, Legal/Government Regulation, Laws, regulations and rules, Finance, Health care industry, United States. National Institutes of Health, Federal aid to research, Government aid to research, Company financing

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