There were 35 cases of polio in Pakistan in 2012, according to the Polio Eradication Initiative.
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He has been previously involved in polio eradication campaigns in South Sudan, Darfur and Somalia.
The Seattle-based Gates Foundation said Bloomberg was set to announce the donation to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative on Thursday.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative also includes the World Health Organization, Rotary International, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and UNICEF.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative takes an approach that differs from past strategies, which featured short-term goals instead of a full plan for finishing the job.
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In a report last month the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative said significant progress had been made in Pakistan in 2012.
And those systems can be used to help expand routine vaccination and other health activities, which means the legacy of polio eradication will live beyond the disease itself.
Dr Bruce Aylward, the co-ordinator of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative at the WHO, said the six countries had recognised that the issue required action from the top levels of government.
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India, one of the ancient homes for polio, has mustered millions of volunteers to join a national polio eradication campaign supported by the WHO, UNICEF, Rotary, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others.
Polio eradication is no longer a health issue.
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Dr Jacob Puliyel, a paediatrician in Delhi, wrote in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics last year that "the polio eradication programme epitomises nearly everything that is wrong with donor-funded 'disease specific' vertical projects, at the cost of investments in community-oriented primary care".
Hamid Jafari, project manager of the WHO-National Polio Surveillance Project (NPSP), has said this is the closest the world has come to global eradication of polio.
The inspiration for Rotary's campaign against polio came from the eradication of smallpox.
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Mr Toole - who is in Pakistan to meet senior government and UN officials - has reiterated Unicef's "commitment to the eradication of polio" and emphasised the need urgently to improve the battle against the spread of the disease.
In 2011, India, considered the most difficult place to achieve eradication, was declared polio-free.
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The UN says that Pakistan could be the "last polio reservoir worldwide" standing in the way of eradication.
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