Microsoft Corporation Bill Gates Acknowledged Pakistan´s Military Role in Eradicating Polio
Microsoft Corporation Bill Gates Acknowledged Pakistan´s Military Role in Eradicating Polio: Bill Gates acknowledges Pakistan’s use of innovative methods for immunization. Microsoft Corporation co-founder Bill Gates called Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and acknowledged military’s supporting efforts to eradicate polio from Pakistan. “Bill Gates called COAS,” the Inter-Services Public Relations said in a statement on Thursday.
“Acknowledged supporting efforts by Pakistan Army for successfully eradicating Polio from Pakistan.”
The military’s media wing added that the COAS appreciated Bill Gate´s efforts towards this noble cause and assured him continued full cooperation in [the] best interest of Pakistan.
The army’s role to eradicate polio was not limited to Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) as it was given the task [to eradicate the disease] from the entire country.
Last month, the philanthropist acknowledged Pakistan’s use of innovative systems for immunisation coverage, terming it an example for the rest of the world to emulate. He termed the results achieved by Dr Umar Saif are unprecedented in the world.
The business magnet Dr Saif, chairman Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB), was invited by the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation to Seattle as part of the Global Good meeting in Seattle, US.
Bill Gates Criticized Trump
The billionaire Microsoft founder criticzed US president for not able to distinguish between the HIV virus, which can lead to AIDS, from HPV, a sexually transmitted disease that can cause cervical cancer or genital warts.
Gates, whose foundation works to combat disease and poverty in developing countries, said the question had arisen after he had urged the president to speed up research for a vaccine for HIV.
“In both of those two meetings, Trump asked me if vaccines weren’t a bad thing because he was considering a commission to look into ill-effects of vaccines and somebody —I think it was Robert Kennedy Jr — was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things. And I said no, that’s a dead end, that would be a bad thing, don’t do that,” Gates told the closed meeting.
A vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) — one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the United States — already exists.
Despite intense research efforts, there is still no vaccine for HIV, which causes AIDS, a disease that killed one million people in 2016.
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