Australian Government commits to $80 Million for Polio

Rotary International

 Thank you, Australia! Its government will provide $80 million from 2015 to 2018 to help finish the job and achieve worldwide polio eradication.

It was Australia's Sir Clem Renouf who, as president of Rotary International in 1978 and 1979, led the international campaign to vaccinate every child against polio. As a result of these early efforts by Rotary, the global community came together in 1988 to launch the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.