It's here in the small Australian town of Nambour that the battle to eradicate polio began.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

How do we solve the climate crisis? How do we eradicate disease?

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

She said the ultimate goal was to eradicate malaria within five years.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

The toads are native to the Americas. They were brought to Queensland in the 1930s in an unsuccessful attempt to eradicate beetles that were destroying sugar cane plantations.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

But six months ago, NATO set up a new command for training the police, and its officials say they are working to eradicate the culture of corruption and ill-discipline.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

Rotary is now a partner with the World Health Organization, UNICEF,the U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a renewed effort to eradicate polio.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

And,Mr.Besson says Europe must eradicate human trafficking.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

For several years,al-Shabab, which follows the ultra-conservative branch of Islam propagated by al-Qaida and the Taliban, has been trying to eradicate Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam, which has deep roots in Somalia.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Only hours after Mr.Karzai's victory in the tainted election, President Obama welcomed the Afghan leader's pledge to eradicate corruption, but frankly warned the proof of those efforts will be not in words,but in deeds.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

He also offered some tough talk. "I emphasized that this has to be a point in time in which we begin to write a new chapter based on improved governance, a much more serious effort to eradicate corruption, joint efforts to accelerate the training of Afghan security forces so that the Afghan people can provide for their own security,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.02