Press Centre
Media advisory
Aventis Pasteur to Donate Millions of Doses of Polio Vaccine To Help
Eradicate Polio in Africa
WHO:
Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, UNICEF
Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General, World Health Organization
David J. Williams, President & Chief Executive Officer, Aventis
Pasteur
WHAT: Announcement and Photo Opportunity - UNICEF and WHO will
announce Aventis Pasteur's donation of millions of doses of polio vaccine
to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative to help immunize children
against polio in Angola, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, southern Sudan
and other areas where polio vaccine is critically needed.
WHEN: Friday, November 8, 2:40 p.m.
WHERE: United Nations Building, exhibition area in the Visitors'
Lobby
BACKGROUND: The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has reduced
the number of polio-endemic countries from 125 in 1988 to just 10, and
is on track to deliver a polio-free world by 2005. The Initiative is
spearheaded by WHO, Rotary International, the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention and UNICEF.
Aventis Pasteur-which has its corporate headquarters in Strasbourg,
France-is a prescription drug company that produces polio and other
vaccines.
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For more information contact:
Elizabeth Kramer, UNICEF Media,
New York,
212 326 7566, ekramer@unicef.org
Christine McNab, World Health
Organization, Media, Geneva,
+ 41 22 791 4688 or + 41 79 254 6815, mcnabc@who.int
Koren Wolman-Tardy,
Aventis Pasteur, Corporate Media Relations, France,
+ 33 4 37 37 72 73, Koren.Wolman-Tardy@aventis.com
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