Major Polio Meeting on the Sidelines of the General Assembly

Polio UN

Polio UN

Pictured from left to right, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan, Bill Gates, co-chair and trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, polio survivor Ramesh Ferris, President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria, Wilfred J. Wilkinson, chair Rotary Foundation Trustees, and Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of World Health Organisaton, at a high level event, ‘The Legacy of a Polio-Free World’, at the United Nations,Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. The event highlighted progress and challenges in the effort to achieve global eradication of polio. (Stuart Ramson/Insider Images for UN Foundation)

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