[afro-nets] Polio Eradication within reach - Ban Ki-Moon (2)

["Peter Burgess" <peterbnyc@gmail.com>]

Dear Claudio, Dear Colleagues

Yes ... I believe it is true. And then there is the question of why this was a success, when so much else is merely a lot of money doing rather little?

I think part of the answer to this is that it was done relatively quietly by people interested and committed to health and the goals of the program. It rarely became a global news event and accordingly has not attracted the individuals and organizations interested merely in milking the program for personal benefit.

I wish I had hard data ... but I am pretty certain that the level of fund flow losses in the polio program has been perhaps an order of magnitude better than in the case of HIV-AIDS programs over the past several years and now malaria. I wish I had data that would show this definitively ... but I don't and probably never will.

Sincerely

Peter Burgess

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