On the Road to Eradication: A PolioPlus Update
District 5330 PolioPlus chair Marilyn Sanderson on polio fatigue, the $50 million Gates match, the PolioPlus Society and the Kennel Klub’s newest member: a hawk.
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District 5330 in Taipei, Part 3: ‘We Made a Promise’
Breakout sessions at the Taipei convention: the push to end polio, beating burnout, managing hard conversations, and a District 5330 dinner at The Grand Hotel.
2025 December Polio
Rotary & Polio Where We Stand in 2025 Wild Poliovirus remains endemic in only 2 countries: Afghanistan & Pakistan. Global cases are at historic lows — over 99% reduction since Rotary launched PolioPlus in 1985. Most of the world remains polio-free, but surveillance still detects the virus in environmental samples in a few high-risk areas. […]
2025 June – Polio Plus
Polio Update Whew! As of May 8, no new cases of the wild polio were reported from Pakistan (5 weeks since the last case). There have been a total of eight cases this year. In Afghanistan, the total for 2025 is two. The End Polio Now Torch introduced in 2014 to celebrate […]
October 2024 – Polio Plus
It’s not political – it’s Polio, and it’s ROTARY. Vaccine pauses in Gaza’s polio crisis aren’t political—they’re vital for public health. Gaza recently reported its first polio case in 25 years — a 10-month-old boy, now paralyzed in a leg. The World Health Organization says the presence of a paralysis case indicates there […]
September 2024 Polio Plus Society
Bad news this month — Two more children paralyzed by Wild Poliovirus in Pakistan confirmed this month. That makes 14 cases in Pakistan since Jan. 1, 2024 and a total of 25 from Pakistan and Afghanistan. Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years, and we’ve made incredible progress […]