1.   As the millennium approaches, the world is tantalizingly close to eliminating polio.

2.   At a news conference launching the report, Bellamy said the main obstacles to eliminating polio are access, largely caused by war, and money.

3.   Bellamy said the main obstacles to eliminating polio are access, largely caused by war, and money.

4.   In a separate report, doctors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta told of dramatic progress toward eliminating polio in China.

5.   In a separate report, doctors from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta told of dramatic progress toward eliminating polio in China.

6.   In a separate report, doctors told of dramatic progress toward eliminating polio in China.

7.   Polio has been eliminated from the Western Hemisphere, western Europe, Scandinavia, parts of east Asia and the western Pacific region, including Australia.

8.   The agency has eradicated smallpox and believes it also on track to eliminate polio in the next few years.

9.   There have been successes, most notably in the effort to eliminate polio.

10.   UNICEF has been campaigning to eliminate polio worldwide by the end of the century, but it believes the Philippines will be able to do so several years earlier.