Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years. Rotary International is a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which also includes the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and countries throughout the world. Together, we've reduced polio cases by 99.9% since Rotary’s first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979. Today, Polio is endemic in two countries:  Afghanistan and Pakistan. 

Unless we eradicate polio, within 10 years, as many as 200,000 new cases could occur around the world each year. In the past few years, only two countries have reported cases of polio caused by the wild virus, but no child anywhere is safe until we’ve vaccinated every child.

At the end of the 1980s, more than 350,000 children were paralyzed by polio every year. Today, Rotary and its partners have reduced the incidence of polio by 99.9%. However, until we see the last of the poliovirus, eradication efforts need additional funding to: 

IMMUNIZE more than 400 million children against polio every year.  

IMPROVE disease surveillance systems to detect any poliovirus in a person or the environment; and 

HIRE more than 150,000 health workers to go door to door to find every child.

Remember that every dollar of your purchase of auction items is doubled by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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