During his day-long visit in February, Gates had held separate meetings with the president and Prime Minister Imran Khan
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. He had also visited the now-defunct National Command and Operation Centre, which spearheaded the country's Covid-19 response, and lauded Pakistain for its efforts to end polio
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...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...President Alvi had conferred the Hilal-e-Pakistain award — one of the country’s highest civil awards — on him during the trip.
In his letter to the president, Gates said it was a "pleasure" meeting him and an honour to receive the award.
He said he was "glad" to discuss challenges of "vital importance" with Alvi such as stunting, malnutrition, family planning and social protection programmes.
"I look forward to a deepening partnership between the government of Pakistain and our [Bill and Melinda Gates] Foundation to tackle these and other issues of shared interest," the letter read.
He commended the president's "ongoing high-level commitment" to protecting the health and wellbeing of Pakistain's children, including efforts to secure a polio-free future for upcoming generations.
Gates reiterated in the letter that Pakistain had made "remarkable progress" in its fight against "wild poliovirus" with no case recorded for over a year. However,
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he noted that the circulation of the disease persisted in southern Khyber Pakthunkhwa.
Gates said President Alvi's "continued engagement on polio would go a long way to accelerating Pakistain's continued progress [in eradicating polio]."
He ended the note saying "I hope we can speak again soon".