1.   Nonetheless, Aylward contends that GAVI should support the polio campaign because it could kick-start broader immunization efforts in areas where polio is still endemic.

2.   Should GAVI support disease eradication efforts, such as the ongoing polio campaign and a proposed campaign targeting measles?

3.   Yet those in the polio campaign argue that the job must be finished.

4.   A temporary cease-fire agreed upon to allow the United Nations to conduct a polio campaign was breached by opposition forces, according to the Taliban.

5.   At a press conference, the U.N. agencies also warned that future polio immunization campaigns might suffer without an injection of funding.

6.   He has been enlisted to help in the polio eradication campaign.

7.   However, the polio immunization campaign in previous years had been very successful despite such disruptions, said Surani Abeysekera, project officer of UNICEF.

8.   In Islamabad, Pakistan, the WHO acknowledged that there would be no cease-fire, but said it was prepared to go ahead with the polio vaccination campaign.

9.   On Friday, the office of the U.N. Coordinator for Afghanistan called for a cease-fire in Afghanistan to allow the next polio campaign to go forward over the weekend.

10.   Rebels in northern Congo captured and tortured five health workers taking part in a U.N.-sponsored polio vaccination campaign, health officials said Wednesday.