Press Release: EU to provide more funding to fight polio in Syria

On 14 March 2014, the European Commission announced that is going to provide additional funding of €1 million to UNICEF to ensure that a vaccination campaign against polio will continue inside Syria. It means that 2.5 million children under the age of five will be inoculated against polio in hard-to-reach areas as well as those who have been forced to move repeatedly because of the fighting.

• Primary Source

European Commission: DG Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection http://ec.europa.eu/echo/index_en.htm

ESO: Background information: Statement by Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva, International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, on suspected polio cases in Syria / Europe at 'polio risk' from Syria http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-statement-by-commissioner-kristalina-georgieva-international-cooperation-humanitarian-aid-and-crisis-response-on-suspected-polio-cases-in-syria-europe-at-polio-risk-from-syria/

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