Polio is 99% eradicated. Why stop there?

Polio is an infectious disease that invades the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis and even death. It is highly infectious, and can have debilitating impacts. While it can strike anyone, at any age, the disease mainly affects children under five years...

How we’ll stop polio for good

Polio is almost completely eradicated. But as Bruce Aylward says: Almost isn’t good enough with a disease this terrifying. Aylward lays out the plan to continue the scientific miracle that ended polio in most of the world — and to snuff it out everywhere,...

An Introduction to Polio

Polio is an infectious disease that invades the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis and even death. It is highly infectious, and can have debilitating impacts. While it can strike anyone, at any age, the disease mainly affects children under five years...

Global Citizen – Sustainability

Dawsons Creek actor and Global Citizen Ambassador Joshua Jackson Narrates this story about Sustainability. Production Company: The Academy Director: Brikk Editing: Brikk Storyboard: Gustaf Öhrnell Illustration: Gustaf Öhrnell 2D Animation: Brikk, Marcus Gestre,...

Piper and the End of Polio

Follow 24-year-old Piper Paquen from Pittsburgh, PA, as she pieces together the incredible unfinished story of the immense global effort to end polio.   Polio is this weeks GLADE focus. Piper Paquen from Pittsburgh, PA is out to stop polio. An Introduction to...

ʻĀINA: That Which Feeds Us

ʻĀINA (pronounced “eye-nah”) means “That Which Feeds Us” in the Hawaiian language. The film highlights a way to address some of the most pressing environmental and health crises facing the island of Kauai – and of island Earth. That may sound like an...
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