Finishing polio eradication is the right thing to do.

We may see the eradication of polio this year.

And at the same time, the polio eradication program has been working to help with a lot of other areas.

And for that reason, polio eradication it's the ultimate in equity and it's the ultimate in social justice.

Well on September 4th, there was a huge mop up campaign, which is what you do in polio.

This is a group whose million strong army of volunteers have been working to eradicate polio for over 20 years.

What the polio eradication program is trying to do is to kill the virus itself that causes polio everywhere on Earth.

The huge social movement that's been involved in polio eradication is ready to do way more for these children.

According to End Polio Pakistan, a group of polio eradication partners in Pakistan that comprises the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and the government of Pakistan, the number of polio cases had dropped from 20,000 a year before the campaign started to only 58 in 2012.

Hundreds of volunteers like Sajida take part in the polio eradication campaign across Balochistan by vaccinating children under five years of age.

We're not trying to control polio.

With polio it's almost completely different.

Now giving the polio vaccine is simple.

This is Pakistan s fight against polio.

We have major challenges, you can imagine, to finish this job, but as you've also seen, it's doable, it has great secondary benefits, and polio eradication is a great buy.

Eradication of poverty

And so when the going got really tough in the polio eradication program about two years ago, when people were saying, We should call it off, the Polio Partnership decided to buckle down once again and try and find innovative new solutions, new ways to get to the children that we were missing again and again.

This is a polio vaccine.

Polio is still a devastating, explosive disease.

Umar also has polio.

Bruce Aylward How we'll stop polio for good

Subject Eradication of greenbottle fly (lucilia)

Policies for the eradication of poverty

We've seen the eradication of smallpox.

And polio, I think, is one of the most powerful examples.

Risking Their Lives to Save Pakistanis From Polio Global Voices

Finishing polio is a smart thing to do, and it's the right thing to do.

Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in 1952.

The G8 nations have been incredibly generous on polio over the last 20 years, but we're starting to have something called polio fatigue and that is that the donor nations aren't willing to fund polio any longer.

Blindness, polio early detection, early response.

Elimination of violence against children

We should abandon this idea of eradication.

Global response for the eradication of poverty

We've seen a 99 percent reduction in polio in 20 years.

Here's a great idea to spread End polio now.

They were terrified of polio, and it would cause public panic.

Bruce Aylward Oops. Jon, polio's almost been eradicated.

Polio strikes the poorest communities in the world.

And polio eradication, in many ways, is even tougher, and there's a few reasons for that.

Now remember, northern India is the perfect storm when it comes to polio.

III. Development and poverty eradication

The reality of polio today is something very different.

We have the chance to write an entirely new polio free chapter in human history.

But soon we may see polio eradicated.

But smallpox eradication was hard it was very, very hard.