World Health Organization contain the last European outbreak in Yugoslavia in 1972. After over two decades of fighting smallpox, the WHO declared in 1979 that the disease had been eradicated – the first disease in history to be eliminated by human effort. Also in 1967, the WHO launched the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases and the World Health Assembly voted to enact a resolution on Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation, with a focus on community-driven care. In 1974, the Expanded Programme on Immunization and the control programme of onchocerciasis was started, an important partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization
Glad to Be Gay fight the disease"), and extended attacks on the tabloid press. From 1996, it also addressed what Robinson calls his 'late onset bisexuality'. The November 6, 1977, episode of Granada Television's "So It Goes" featured a live performance of the song by the Tom Robinson Band. In 1979, Tom Robinson performed at the "Secret Policeman's Ball", a benefit concert staged by the British section of Amnesty International to raise funds for its research and campaign work in the human rights arena. For this performance he reinstated a verse about Peter Wells not used since the original demo. Wells was a young