Update on polio eradication for Rotary District 9930's Conference May 2018

1. Polio eradication
District 9930 Conference 2018
Michelle Tanner
District Polio Chair
Rotary Matamata

2. My ‘Rotary
moment’!

3. What has Rotary done?
• Rallied 20 million
volunteers to vaccinate
2.5 billion children
• One million individual
Rotarians have donated
time and resources
• Donated US$1.2 billion
• Secured US$9 billion
from governments

4. Total
2013
Total
2014
Total
2015
Total
2016
Total
2017
YTD
2017
YTD
2018
Last case
Pakistan 93 306 54 20 8 2 1 8-Mar-17
Nigeria 53 6 0 4 0 0 0 21-Aug-16
Afghanistan 14 28 20 13 14 3 7 3-Mar-18
Total endemic 160 340 74 37 22 0 0
Non-endemic 240 19 0 0 0 0 0 5-Oct-14
Total cases
worldwide
416 359 74 37 22 5 8
Wild polio cases as at 15th May 2018
Data available from: http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-now/this-week/

5. Why we cannot stop now
• US$25b
saving over
20 years
• 200,000
cases
prevented
each year
WE PROMISED

6. GPEI funding 2013-20 (in US$)

7. What can ‘I’ do?
• Find out what my club gives each year
• Hold a fund/awareness raising event
– Purple Pinkie Day
– World’s Greatest Meal
• Join a planned polio vaccination trip
• Consider a personal contribution
• Advocate
• Give polio speaker
certificates

10. Polio eradication: let’s finish the job

11. Let’s
finish
this!
Thank you

12. • Question?
• More information?
• Club talk?
Email us:
d9930polioplus@gmail.
com