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<p>The UK is the third largest donor to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and
has committed £1.3 billion in total since 1995. In Afghanistan GPEI are working to
reach mobile populations where children have been chronically missed by vaccination
campaigns. In Nigeria activities are focussed on trying to reach all children with
vaccinations to close immunity gaps that allow polio to remain.</p><p> </p><p>The
UK are observers on the Polio Oversight Board and represent all state donors on the
Strategy Committee, which gives us a position from which to influence the activities
of the fund at a strategic level. We regularly review progress in the endemic countries,
including Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria and DFID country offices in each of these
countries also have valuable insight by engaging with the programme in country.</p>
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