According to Bill Gates, he was happy he had
a good meeting with President Goodluck
Jonathan of Nigeria with regards to Polio cases
in Nigeria which are down 50% from this time
last year. Below is the report from Bill
gates’ website :
It’s the kickoff to U.N. Week here in New
York, and while locals like to complain
about the traffic (I can see why), it is a
great opportunity for me to meet with
leaders from parts of the world where our
foundation is working—to talk about global
health and development projects.
I started off on Monday morning meeting
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan.
Besides our work with our partners on
polio in Nigeria, we are also working with
the government to improve their
agricultural sector. I’ve written before
about China’s potential to help developing
countries in Africa learn from its
successes, but in Nigeria we have a really
interesting project just getting off the
ground where Brazil is working with
Nigeria to bring up agricultural
productivity in their northern Guinea
savannah. Brazil has done an amazing job
helping their own farmers in the Cerrado
region to improve their yields, which
brings tremendous economic and social
benefits.
President Jonathan assembled a meeting
of experts in New York and we spent a
couple of hours reviewing their progress
and discussing next steps. I also had a
chance to catch up with President
Jonathan about the work we’re doing with
our partners on polio, which is showing
encouraging progress. Nigeria had 43
confirmed cases of polio in the first 8
months of 2013, a drop of 50 percent from
the same period last year. Finishing the
job is quite an undertaking, so having the
President’s support is a big deal. I was
pleased we got to spend as much time
together as we did.
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