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. 

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 1.8 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 types 2 and 3 have been eradicated. The eradication of Type 3 was announced this year on World Polio Day.  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 Polio Fact Sheet

Click here for the latest Summary of Facts and Figures

135 WPV1 cases in Pakistan

28 WPV1 cases in Afghanistan

259 cVDPV cases

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.

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

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

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