The end of polio

My friends at the Global Poverty Project have put together this great campaign calling for the end polio.

Polio is a disease which has disabled millions and pulled people further into poverty – has been reduced by 99% over the past 30 years.

Global efforts have delivered incredible progress: immunising more than 2 billion children and saving more than 5 million children from life-long paralysis or death.

But right now the critical work of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative is constrained by a US$590 million funding gap.

Ending polio is the right thing to do – we should take steps to reduce and eliminate debilitating diseases wherever they are.

But beyond that, we need to end polio because:

• It’s a generation defining achievement.
• It’s part of a global movement for justice, and the end of extreme poverty.
• Polio anywhere is a threat everywhere.
• Eradication is cheaper than containment.

Check out this great animation they have put together and sign your name to rid polio off the face of the earth at www.theendofpolio.com