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South African President Nelson Mandela, Chairman of the Committee for a Polio-free Africa, launches an intensive campaign called 'Kick Polio out of Africa' to bolster routine and mass immunizations against polio throughout the continent. In 2001, a cold-storage box containing polio vaccine is transported to an immunization site in Sierra Leone.