As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've reduced polio
cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the
Philippines in 1979.
We've helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children in 122
countries. So far, Rotary has contributed more than $1.8 billion toward
eradicating the disease worldwide.
Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan, Nigeria, and
Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries
polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio
could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.
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