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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said at the Rotary International Annual Convention that governments across the globe need to take steps to eradicate polio, and he specifically called on political and religious leaders in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria, and India--the only four countries with endemic polio. "We can either cut back on health expenditures and incur massive losses in lives and capacity for growth [during the global economic downturn], or we can invest in health and spare both people and economies the high cost of inaction," he said. "The choice should be clear." Since rolling out its polio eradication campaign in 1985, Rotary International has donated $800 million to the cause.
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