Polio this week as of 18 October 2023

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Oct 20, 2023

Polio this week as of 18 October 2023


Headlines Tuesday, 24 October is World Polio Day, a chance to raise awareness and resources to help deliver a polio-free world in the very near term. To mark the day, partners and stakeholders around the world are organizing events, bringing together public and civil society in a common goal. For all individual eradicators and stakeholders: thank you for everything you do to make the dream of a polio-free world a reality. If you would like to make a personal, voluntary donation towards the effort, we would invite you to contribute via Rotary International’s End Polio Now campaign, a key partner alongside WHO and others in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Each donation made to Rotary’s End Polio Now effort is matched 2:1 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to maximise its effect. As such, if you give US$10 to the effort, as an example, the amount becomes US$30, and with that, 60 children will be vaccinated in the remaining affected countries. Thank you for everything that you do! We wish you a very successful World Polio Day!

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