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.
To eradicate polio, Rotarians have mobilised thousands of our members and friends. They're working to ensure that children are immunised and that surveillance is strong despite the poor infrastructure, extreme poverty, and civil strife of many countries. Since the PolioPlus programme's inception in 1985, more than two billion children have received the oral polio vaccine.
Today more than 17 million people are walking who would have been paralysed by the disease. 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 and Nigeria is the Wild Type 1 polio virus circulating.
Click here to see the Countdown to History Action Plan
Click here for the latest Zone 17 End Polio Now newsletter
Click here for the latest PolioPlus update
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 2018 (as at 15 July 2018)
9 WPV1 cases in Afghanistan
3 WPV1 cases in Pakistan
7 cases of cVDPV2 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 5 in Somalia, 2 in Nigeria and 1 in Papua New Guinea.
Final position for 2017
8 WPV1 cases in Pakistan
14 WPV1 cases in Afghanistan
There were also 22 cases of cVDPV in the Democratic Republic of Congo and 74 cases of cVDPV in Syria. Although this is disappointing, it is not a setback and vaccination programmes in Syria have been stepped up. 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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