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WHY ERADICATE POLIO?
1. WE PROMISED WE WOULD!
2. POLIO ANYWHERE IS A THREAT EVERYWHERE.
3. ERADICATION IS CHEAPER THAN CONTAINMENT.
When Rotary International has raised the $200million which it was challenged to find, the battle will be won. But we still need to triumph in the war against polio. Just to keep to the planned budget for 2011-12, the Global Eradication Initiative has a funding gap of $590million. By the time that transmission is interrupted in all countries, Rotary will have contributed over $1 billion to a programme that is expected to total approximately $10 billion in donor funds. That's a staggering amount of money.
So when Rotarians have raised the $200million and are clapping themselves on the back and congratulating themselves on "a job well-done", remember we will still have to overcome the fatigue of the last 26 years, and carry on raising funds.
Polio Fatigue is hard for us to overcome, but be overjoyed each time you collect a pound from a member of your community. Think of that pound as gaining ground against polio, and the devastating effects the disease has on the children of the world. We promised that we would eradicate polio, so don't give up just because you're tired.
For more information on the Polio Challenge follow this link 
Summary as at 11th October:
Reported cases on 11th October 2011 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 ytd |
2011 split |
Worldwide Endemic Non-endemic countries Total Type 1 Type 3 |
1505 146 1651 976 675 |
1256 348 1604 482 1122 |
232 1117 1349 1262 87 |
183 261 444 385 59 |
41% 59%
87% 13% |
Central Asia / Russia |
|
|
476 |
|
|
WW w/o Cent Asia /Russia |
1651 |
1604 |
873 |
401 |
100% |
Nigeria Non-endemic countries Total Africa |
798 140 938 |
388 348 736 |
21 635 656 |
34 251 285 |
8% 57% 64% |
India Pakistan Afghanistan Non-endemic countries Total Asia |
559 117 31 6 713 |
741 89 38
868 |
42 144 25 6 217 |
1 111 37 10 126 |
<1% 25% 8% 2% 36% |
A summary that shows the incidence of polio cases by type and country arranged by the date of the most recent case but no weekly trend is available on the GPEI website http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisweek.aspx
Also, the polio eradication campaign targets may be found: http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Polioeradicationtargets.aspx