Press Release
Rotary acknowledged in BBC Reith Lecture
10 May 2007
There was a strong positive mention of the success of Polio Plus in the 5th Reith Lecture on Radio 4 given by Jeffrey Sachs on Wed 9th May "The control of polio, down by a factor of more than 100 in the past 20 years, has been championed by Rotary International, in collaboration with the World Health Organization."
The transcript is on the BBC website at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2007/rams/webchat_archive.ram
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