Pakistan may delay polio free target: the gates

NEW YORK: 1 trillion millionaire philanthropist software open Baron gates Tuesday warned that violence in Nigeria and Pakistan can set in his eradication of poliomyelitis, 2018.

In 2013, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -- a charitable institutions, Fund medical research and vaccination the eradication of the crippling disease, the next 0 years of highest priority.

The Microsoft founder, he has invested a large part of his personal wealth in the drive and encouraging 1 trillion millionaires to help, said that in a AFP interview, major challenges remain.

India, once the country's most serious problems, and polio -- a major childhood diseases, resulting in waste of 4 limbs - has just celebrated its 3 years polio-free.

The disease is still prevalent in Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. There are also some reinfections in the war-torn Somalia and Syria, a threat to the region's a free of the scourge.

"Nigeria and Pakistan, will be 10 difficult. Pakistan violence is evil," Gates told AFP Tuesday in New York, complained that the conspiracy theory has undermined the vaccination and prevention drive.

"The fact is that the vaccine is to help children. and spreading rumors and attacks on the workers - those who do not have a justice and truth on their side.

He said: "Therefore, we may miss a year or two if we can't help. The President (spoke in English), a very much the support of religious leaders, who are trying to make truth.

"just hours before the statement, three polio workers were shot dead in Pakistan, in Karachi City, forced the suspension vaccination and in the entire southern Sindh Province.

Last week, the World Health Organization warned that North-west Pakistan city of Peshawar, is the world's largest reservoir of the disease.

The Pakistani Taliban rebels and immunization in northern Nigeria was also hit.

He said: "This is really the next to Nigeria and Pakistan," Gates told AFP. "Every day we are talking about what is good and what is not, how can we track group, the new approach can help us to strengthen the efforts," he added.

Last November, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative said: "Nigeria of 51 328 cases of this disease in the world in 2013, compared 121 223 in 2012.

But the numbers are in Pakistan. According to the World Health Organization said that Pakistan recorded 91 cases of polio last year than in 2012 and 58.

He said: "Even in Pakistan, in a certain degree of increase, it is still relatively small in number, so we are very close," Gates told AFP.

The Gates Foundation spends more than $0 a year polio eradication program and the US Congress has also allocated additional money. "I think we will have enough money. I think we have enough. We need to be on the ground to the truth," Gates said.