2013 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION IN LISBON, PORTUGAL
After 25 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease, but a strong push is needed now to root it out once and for all. It is a window of opportunity of historic proportions.
Reaching the ultimate goal of a polio-free world presents ongoing challenges, not the least of which is a hundreds of million dollar funding gap. Of course, Rotary alone can't fill this gap, but continued Rotarian advocacy for government support can help enormously.
As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, children everywhere remain at risk. The stakes are that high.
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Good news from the Independent Monitoring Board, which said that "Stopping polio transmission by end 2014 is a realistic prospect."
Rotary International and its partners CDC, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF, and World Health Organization (WHO) have been working tirelessly to eradicate polio. Learn more about our work at www.endpolio.org