Rotary’s PolioPlus dream of a polio-free world – latest developments and updates

Thursday, November 11, 2021 19:00-21:00, InterContinental Hotel Geneva, Chemin du Petit-Saconnex 7-9, 1209 Genève
Website: http://intercontinental-geneva.ch/
Organizer(s):
  • Thomas Seghezzi

In 1985, Rotary International launched PolioPlus, a global effort to eradicate polio. At the time, more than 350,000 children were paralysed every single year, in more than 125 endemic countries.  Since then, thanks to a unique global public-private partnership called the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, wild poliovirus has been reduced by 99%.  This year, only two wild poliovirus cases have been reported, from Afghanistan and Pakistan.  The world stands on the threshold of a unique public health success – the worldwide eradication of a disease for only the second time in history (after the eradication of smallpox in 1980). 

Our member Oliver Rosenbauer, Spokesperson, Global Polio Eradiation Initiative, World Health Organizatio, will give an overview of the latest epidemiological situation, and remaining challenges which must be overcome to achieve a lasting polio-free world once and for all.


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