Bill Gates told in one of his most recent interviews that Nigeria will have zero cases of polio in 2015 and in 2018, it will be listed in the names of countries free from Polio disease.
Presently, Bill Gates runs an organization named as The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The objective of this organization is to completely wipe the world from polio disease. Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria are those three countries in which this Virus is still wide spread.
Furthermore, he said that the truth is that this year in Nigeria their team will have to confront some major challenges that consist of distraction which will caused by the forthcoming election, violence in Boko Haram. Lately, an extremist group is continuously targeting Polio teams. Regardless of all these brutal facts, this year Nigeria reported very few Polio cases therefore, they are not expecting any case next year. If there will be not a single case turned up in next three years then Nigeria will declared as Polio free state in 2018.
Once the world is clear from this horrible disease – Polio, then Bill Gates has some other high profile heath programs and Malaria is one of them. A mosquito cause this ailment and takes life of approximately 60,000 people a year. Majority of deaths are happen in Africa.