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It's taken decades and millions of health workers traveling by foot, boat and any other way they had to immunize children from polio.

经过数十年努力，数百万医务工作者跋山涉水、不辞辛劳，通过步行、乘船等各种必要方式为儿童接种脊髓灰质炎疫苗。

Health workers have even braved conflict to prevent a horribly crippling disease.

卫生工作者甚至冒着冲突的危险来预防这种可怕的致残疾病。

We've made tremendous progress, working with community leaders, sometimes with military officials,

我们取得了巨大进展，与社区领袖合作，有时也与军方官员协作，

to help deliver vaccine to reduce the number of children that were inaccessible due to conflict down to very very small numbers.

帮助运送疫苗，将因冲突而无法接种疫苗的儿童数量降至极低水平。

Twenty years ago, African governments committed to eradicate polio.

20年前，非洲各国政府开始致力于根除脊髓灰质炎。

Since then, nine billion oral polio vaccines have prevented nearly two million cases of wild polio virus on the continent, according to the World Health Organization.

据世界卫生组织称，自那时起，90亿剂口服脊髓灰质炎疫苗已在非洲大陆预防了近200万例野生脊髓灰质炎病毒病例。

It took a lot of effort from many leaders, traditional leaders, religious leaders and families as well as volunteers and health workers, who came together to make this tremendous feat possible.

许多政府领导人、宗教领袖和家庭以及志愿者与卫生工作者付出了巨大努力，他们齐心协力才使这一壮举成为可能。

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative provided funding and logistical support.

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