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peter
According
to Bill Gates, he was happy he had a good meeting with President
Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria with regards to Polio cases in Nigeria
which are down 50% from this time last year. Below is the report from
Bill gates' website
:
It's
the kickoff to U.N. Week here in New York, and while locals like to
complain about the traffic (I can see why), it is a great opportunity
for me to meet with leaders from parts of the world where our foundation
is working—to talk about global health and development projects.
I
started off on Monday morning meeting Nigeria's President Goodluck
Jonathan. Besides our work with our partners on polio in Nigeria, we are
also working with the government to improve their agricultural sector.
I've written before about China's potential to
help developing countries in Africa learn from its successes, but in
Nigeria we have a really interesting project just getting off the ground
where Brazil is working with Nigeria to bring up agricultural
productivity in their northern Guinea savannah. Brazil has done an
amazing job helping their own farmers in the Cerrado region to improve
their yields, which brings tremendous economic and social benefits.
President
Jonathan assembled a meeting of experts in New York and we spent a
couple of hours reviewing their progress and discussing next steps. I
also had a chance to catch up with President Jonathan about the work
we're doing with our partners on polio, which is showing encouraging
progress. Nigeria had 43 confirmed cases of polio in the first 8 months
of 2013, a drop of 50 percent from the same period last year. Finishing
the job is quite an undertaking, so having the President's support is a
big deal. I was pleased we got to spend as much time together as we did.
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