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Lending a Hand
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Twenty-five years after we set out to achieve
one of the most ambitious
public health goals ever,
we are within reach of the finish line: polio
eradication.
As a medical student in the late 1950's,
I remember caring for children
paralyzed by polio,
including those forced to live in "iron lungs"
because polio had paralyzed the nerves required to breath.
Virtually everyone
knew someone whose family had been affected by the disease.
Fortunately, development of vaccines by American scientists
Jonas Salk and
Albert Sabin
enabled us to rid the U.S. of polio by 1979.
In 1988, when polio still occurred in 125 countries
and paralyzed 350,000
people annually,
health ministers from around the world
passed a resolution at
the World Health Assembly (WHA)
calling for eradication.
Since then, the U.S.
has been working with partners to free everyone,
everywhere, from polio
forever
, and I am proud to have been a part of the effort from the beginning.
The resolution created a remarkable public-private partnership --
the Global
Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) --
led by the World Health Organization,
Rotary International,
the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
,
and UNICEF.
Its impact has been extraordinary.
Today, all but three countries
have interrupted wild poliovirus transmission,
and in 2012 we recorded just 223
cases -- fewer than ever before.
We'd always thought India would be the last
country to eliminate polio;
today, it's been polio-free for more than two
years.
The U.S. has played a major role in this fight, with CDC at the helm.
CDC
has established an unprecedented global network of laboratories,
provided
technical experts and more than 1,800 volunteers to polio-affected countries,
and contributed three-quarters of the US' $2.1 billion investment in polio
eradication.
Director Dr. Thomas Frieden activated CDC's Emergency Operations
Center
to strengthen the agency's eradication efforts.
CDC is joined in this work by the US Agency for International Development
and by other US-based organizations,
including Rotary International and the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Both have contributed more than $1 billion
and, in Rotary's case, countless volunteer hours.
The changing situation as we near eradication forces us to revise our
strategies.
For example, the program will introduce an inactivated injectable
vaccine
to eliminate the rare cases of paralysis caused by the existing oral
vaccine.
In addition, operational barriers like weak infrastructure,
vaccine
refusals and insecurity are obstacles to reaching kids in the final pockets.
In response, the GPEI recently developed the
Building on years of
progress and lessons learned,
the plan tackles polio on several fronts: it
seeks to eliminate both wild
and vaccine-derived poliovirus,
while
strengthening routine immunization to protect against other diseases.
The plan
will require $5.5 billion through 2018,
three-quarters of which have already
been pledged.
At the end of May, on the 25th anniversary of the GPEI's founding,
the WHA
endorsed the plan.
I had the privilege of joining nearly 500 other scientists and
technical experts
in endorsing it in April.
We are closer than ever to ending polio.
Insufficient human and financial
resources now could compromise our chance of success -
and the longer it
takes, the more expensive it will be.
The U.S. must continue its leadership and
commit additional funding to achieve the goal.
Twenty-six years ago, colleagues and I published an article
that
concluded: "global eradication of poliomyelitis is inevitable;
the only
question is whether we will accomplish it
or pass on the needed action to our
successors.
We believe we should act now to leave the legacy of a
poliomyelitis-free world for our children."
That statement is just as true
today.
We must act now.
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Rotary Club of West Perth
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Rotary Club of Belmont
Rachelle Griffith
Michele Alexander
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Rotary Club of Karrinyup
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Rotary Club of Carnarvon
President Gordon Bennett
Three Charter members were present at the 50th Birthday
and all are pictured here with District Governor Philip Skelton
Terry Cahill
Ross McKernon
Barry Scott
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FINAL
AROUND THE CLUBS
Rotary Club of South Bunbury
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Rotary Club of Hillarys and Wanneroo
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Rotary Club of West Perth
Seen at the Rotary Club of Karrinyup changeover
Balcatta Club was represented by Terry
Dowling,
Howard Marson, Jeff Abbott, President Elect Jackie Bullock
and our
newest member Stephen O'Donohue
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Rotary Club of Canning Bridge
Rotary Club of Rossmoyne
Australian Rotary Health Western Region Board Director Phil Cordery
visited the Rotary Club of Rossmoyne
and presented President Graham Brown
and the club with a recognition banner
The Rotary Club of Rossmoyne has achieved $500 per member
in contributions to Australian Rotary Health
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Rotary Clubs of Como and Bentley Curtin
Monday nights joint meeting at Como Rotary Club
to thank Mike Terry [Rotary Club of Belmont] and the Hertz Truck Rental
Company
for their ongoing support of our container project.
Mike was presented
with a certificate from the Bentley Curtin and Como Rotary clubs
and a special
presentation of a hand woven Timor Tias
by Joao and Cipriana Nascimento on
behalf of the Timorese community
With Presidents Kim Larsen [Como] and Peter Snell [Bentley Curtin]
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Rotary Club of West Perth
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Rotary Club of Kununurra
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Rotary Club of Mill Point
Bentley Tafe Catering Awards
The
delightful 4 course
dinner
attended last
Tuesday
was for the
presentation
of awards to
Elisha
Bettenay and
Kharisma
Muhammad for
their
success in their
Catering
Course. The
presentation was made
by Sandy Kirkpatrick
on behalf of the members
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Rotary Club of Geraldton
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Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay
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Many Youth Exchange students are doing presentations
at their clubs as they prepare to go home
after 12 months in Western Australia
Rotary Club of Millpoint
Valen Teran............Venezuela
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Rotary Club of Northam
Eric......Taiwan
Eric entertained with a prelude pre meeting
and afterwards 2 concerto pieces,
his favourite Rachmaninoff, leading;
followed
by an own composition..
He then provided accompaniment for the
National Anthem, in tune.
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Rotary Club of Manjimup
Kia
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Rotary Club of Batavia Coast
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Rotary Club of Busselton Geographe Bay
President Ian Clarke with his outgoing board
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Rotary Club of Southern Districts
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Rotary Club of Ascot
has a new Sergeant
Last week we left you with this
conundrum:
SO WHAT ARE WE GOING TO GET
NEXT WEEK?
The Big or the Small?
Well, today
we found out: it was actually
Ron Alexander and Ron Alexander
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Funny pictures !!!
at Hillarys
CLUB FLYERS
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lyrics
The hills were alive with wildflowers
And I was as wild, even wilder than they
For at least I could run, they just died in the sun
And I refused to just wither in place
Just a wild mountain rose, needing freedom to grow
So I ran fearing not where I'd go
When a flower grows wild, it can always survive
Wildflowers don't care where they grow
And the flowers I knew in the fields where I grew
Were content to be lost in the crowd
They were common and close, I had no room for growth
I wanted so much to branch out
I uprooted myself from home ground and left
Took my dreams and I took to the road
When a flower grows wild, it can always survive
Wildflowers don't care where they grow
I grew up fast and wild and I never felt right
In a garden so different from me
I just never belonged, I just longed to be gone
So the garden, one day, set me free
Hitched a ride with the wind and since he was my friend
I just let him decide where we'd go
When a flower grows wild, it can always survive
Wildflowers don't care where they grow
Not
many people know it, but the Devil actually wears a wig.
You'd never know if
you weren't told. It’s a perfect fit.
Anyway,
down in the world of fire and brimstone,
one guy did find out and he decided to
have a little practical joke
. So one night, he sneaks past the guardian demons
and manages to get all the way into Satan's bed chamber,
whereupon he steals
the hair-piece and makes good his escape.
Well,
of course, the Devil was most displeased by this
and he rounds up his demons
and demands
to know which of them had been so lazy as to let someone sneak past
them.
Naturally, none of them owns up, which makes him even madder:
So he calls
a general meeting of everyone the under-world:
everyone has to attend.
The
meeting is held in a huge cavern and it's absolutely packed
(except for the odd
gap in the crowd,
where there's a lava-pit or bottomless fissure in the floor)
.
As Satan steps up to speak,
everyone sees that he's got no hair,
and peals of
laughter start echoing out around the hall.
The devil bel-lows at them to be
quiet,
and a deadly hush falls.
“Whoever
stole it,” he shouts,
“had better return it immediately!”
And here he paused
for effect,
”Or else there'll be Hell Toupee!
The Stick
The
cowboys gathered in their bunk¬house after a hard day on the range
. One of them
popped open a cold beer
and
sat on the edge of his bunk.
"Where's Tex?" he asked.
"Oh,
he's out looking over his new car," another responded.
"It's that new
foreign car he just bought.
He just can't get enough of it.
Spend hours just
looking and touching it."
The
cowboy standing in the corner said:
"Ole Tex is a smart aleck.
As soon as
he gets back here hell start bragging about that car."
The
one with the beer then said
: "Not Tex. He's just a good old boy arid
that's all hell ever be.
When he comes in, all he's going to do is say
hello."
"I
know Tex better than any of you," said another cowboy
who was standing in
the darkness of the far corner.
"He may be a good old boy but he's also a
smart old boy.
He'll figure out some way to brag about his car
even when he's
just saying hello."
Just
then the bunkhouse door swung open
and Tex sauntered in.
He looked at all the
others who seemed startled at his arrival and shouted:
"Audi,
partners!"
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Rainbow over the Pinnacles
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