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U.S. President Barack Obama announced a new global effort to eradicate polio during his speech June 4 in Cairo.
Mr. Obama said the United States will partner with the Organization of the Islamic Conference to wipe out the crippling disease, which now affects less than 2,000 people a year.
He also used the speech to announce and discuss several other proposals.
New energy sources
Mr. Obama said the United States will appoint new Science Envoys to develop new sources of energy, create green jobs, clean water and grow new crops. He also said the U.S. will open scientific excellence centers in Africa, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
New online network
He said the U.S. will create a new online network so teenagers in America can instantly communicate with teenagers in the Muslim world.
Business volunteer corps
Mr. Obama also announced plans to create a corps of business volunteers to work with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries and expand education exchange programs.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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