The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
supports the global initiative to wipe out polio,
which includes a campaign in Nigeria, one of
three nations where the crippling virus is still
endemic. The others are Pakistan and
Afghanistan.
“We have got all the challenges up in northern
Nigeria, the violence from Boko Haram, and
the distraction of an upcoming election,” Gates
said in a telephone interview, referring to an
Islamist rebel group that has in the past
targeted vaccination workers, and to Nigeria’s
national vote next year,” Gates said in a
telephone conversation with Reuters.

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