200 Million To Fight Polio
On Monday the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated 100 Million to the Rotary Foundation. The Rotary Foundation plan to match the 100 Million through fund raising in the next few years.
The reaming four countries were Polio is prevalent are Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and Nigeria. The Rotary Foundation plan on spending 100 million in the first year alone to fund vaccination projects in these countries.
Polio is close to being eliminated world wide. Only 2,000 cases were reported worldwide. That number of actual cases is obviously much higher due to unreported cases.
Polio is often something we forget about in the United States. It has been eliminated after a preventive vaccine was found in the 1950s. At it’s peak in the United State’s it paralyzed 20,000 American’s in one year.
I’ll work on getting more information about Polio on this website….
Tags: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Polio, Rotary Foundation, vaccine