21.   The campaign, and similar ones on other continents, aims at eventually eradicating polio.

22.   The first ladies of the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Friday inaugurated the first joint effort to eradicate polio by the two nations that share the island of Hispaniola.

23.   The incident occurred as doctors in India are trying to eradicate polio by the end of the decade.

24.   The organization is involved in a drive to eradicate polio.

25.   The United Nations and WHO have called the vaccine program in Central Africa essential to the goal of eradicating polio worldwide.

26.   Today, Rotarians are increasingly involved in setting up effective surveillance systems so health officials can be sure polio has been eradicated.

27.   Japan and the United States have agreed to work together to eradicate polio worldwide by the end of the century, officials said Tuesday.

28.   Lherisson said significant progress had been made in eradicating polio from the DRC, the former Belgian colony of Zaire, over the last five years.

29.   Pakistan can eradicate polio by the turn of the century, a UN official said Wednesday, as the country launched the second round of a mass immunisation campaign.

30.   The campaign to eradicate polio from Afghanistan is the largest such drive so far to be launched in the country.