We’re co-hosting a vaccine summit in Abu Dhabi in April. The summit will take place, appropriately enough, during World Immunization Week. We view this summit as a powerful endorsement of the role that vaccines and immunization play in achieving global
child health and development goals.

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After reading the recent Wall Street Journal op-ed “Victory against polio is within reach,” I was reminded of the trip I took to Nigeria last month to look more closely at the polio work there and felt the need to write a response. The op-ed highlights
the tremendous progress in the global effort to fight polio but also notes the critical need to fill a $1B funding gap and for strong political commitment to end polio forever.

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We are at a critical moment in the effort to create a polio-free world: Anything short of complete eradication means we give up on the promise of providing all children, no matter where they live, the benefit of living a life free of this debilitating disease.

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Times were tough in the United States in 1938. Unemployment was at 19 percent as the country crawled out of the Great Depression. Nevertheless, President Franklin Roosevelt decided it was time to launch a multimillion dollar campaign to confront the devastating polio epidemics that were striking the country.

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When news from the British Medical Journal emerged last week discrediting the notorious Wakefield study as “an elaborate fraud,” I expected a chorus of celebration from the vaccine community, but what I observed was relative silence.

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