After meeting with health officials and polio experts, Gates said he was confident that polio can be successfully eradicated with India leading the way.
Gates called for an increased government spending on health and urged health officials to consider using innovative approaches such as injection vaccines to tackle the crippling disease.
A world effort to beat polio has succeeded in slashing the number of cases by 99 per cent over the past two decades, but the disease is still endemic in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed more than 17 billion dollars in grants since it began in 1994, and has given hundreds of millions of dollars in a global campaign to eradicate polio.
Source-ANI
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