End Polio Now
Welcome to the End Polio Now pages
End Polio Now is the most ambitious programme in Rotary's history. For more than 30 years Rotary has led the global effort to rid the world of this crippling disease.
In financial terms the global effort to eradicate polio has
saved more than $27 billion between 1988 and 2012 with a further $14 billion
expected to be saved by 2050. Nearly 3 billion children have been vaccinated,
preventing more than 18 million people being paralysed. More than 650,000
paralytic cases of polio are now prevented every year. More than 1.5 million childhood deaths have been prevented.
Once polio is eradicated, the world will be able to celebrate a major global advantage that will benefit all children, whatever their origins.
The goal of a polio free world is tantalisingly close. Wild polio virus type 2 has been eradicated and there have been no cases of type 3 for four years. Only in Pakistan and remote parts of Afghanistan is the Wild Type 1 polio virus circulating.
Below are links to leaflest and fact sheets. You can click on each one to download it. The first two are also available to buy from the End Polio Now Guernsey website
Click here for a useful Basic Fact Sheet
Click here for a useful information leafletClick here for a Polio Fact Sheet
Click here for the latest Summary of Facts and Figures
Latest position for 2019 (as at 29 August 2019)
58 WPV1 cases in Pakistan
13 WPV1 case in Afghanistan
59 cVDPV cases
Final position for 2018
21 WPV1 cases in Afghanistan
12 WPV1 cases in Pakistan
20 cases of cVDPV in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 13 in Somalia, 32 in Nigeria, 8 in Niger, 26 in Papua New Guinea and 1 in Mozambique.
Final position for 2017
8 WPV1 cases in Pakistan
14 WPV1 cases in Afghanistan
22 cases of cVDPV in the Democratic Republic of Congo and 74 cases of cVDPV in Syria. To read a full account of cVDPV in Syria, click here. To read a summary, click here
How can you help?Please continue to donate. Every £1 helps and every £1 will be matched by £2 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Here is a link to more information about the campaign and how you can donate
There are some links to specific fund raising initiatives for End Polio Now on the menu on the right.
Guernsey Rotary Club End Polio Now shop. Click here to buy bears, clothing and lots of items you can sell to raise funds
To learn more about eradicating polio go to the RI website for polio eradication or the official website of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
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