Polio
If you haven’t had a chance yet, check out our Hot Topic piece on the eradication of polio. Since 1988, polio cases have decreased by 99%. This disease once took the lives of more than 300,000 people a year; we are now just 1,300 cases per year away from achieving global eradication of this devastating disease. This is truly a remarkable story.
Our Policy Team has outlined the both challenge and opportunity presented by polio in a policy brief which you can read here. It’s as good a recap as you’re likely to find on our battle against this infectious disease.
Which reminds me– check out this clip from Bill and Melinda Gates’s “Impatient Optimists” presentation in which they outline some of the key successes in combating polio:
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