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  INDIA POLIO-FREE FOR ONE YEAR

The World Health Organisation has announced that 12 January 2012 marks a full year without a single case of Polio  in India.

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 ROTARY'S CHALLENGE REACHES US$200 MILLION

Rotary’s Challenge for polio eradication has reached the US$200 million milestone. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded The Rotary Foundation an additional $50 million grant, which is not a challenge grant, in recognition of Rotary's early achievement of this milestone.

To date, Rotarians worldwide have contributed more than $1 billion toward the eradication of polio, a cause Rotary took on in 1985.

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RISING TO THE CHALLENGE

Rotary's US$200 Million PolioPlus Challenge totals*

US$202.6 Million

*As of  17 January 2012

                   The resulting $555 million will directly support immunization campaigns in developing countries, where polio continues to infect and paralyze children, robbing them of their futures and compounding the hardships faced by their families.

Polio Facts & Figures

Wild Polio Area                                       Number of cases in 2011 Afghanistan 76 India 1 Nigeria 52 Pakistan 192 Non-endemic countries 306 Total worldwide 627 Data as of 11 January 2012 World Health Organization For further information or to make a donation please visit www.polioeradication.org .