Polio global eradication initiative World Health Organization. (). Global Polio Eradication Initiative: annual report 1 Global polio eradication initiative. Thumbnail Global polio eradication initiative.. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 84 (8), 2 This online training will be used to teach and refresh participants on the basics of the poliovirus, introduce the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. 3 La Iniciativa de Erradicación Mundial de la Poliomielitis es una iniciativa creada en , justo después de que la Asamblea Mundial de la Salud resolviera erradicar la enfermedad poliomielitis. Liderada por la Organización Mundial de la Salud, es. 4 The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is financed by a wide range of public and private donors, who help meet the costs of the Initiative’s eradication activities. The requirements for are projected to be approximately US$ billion. Read More ENDGAME STRATEGIC PLAN ERADICATION INTEGRATION CERTIFICATION CONTAINMENT. 5 The goal of the GPEI is to complete the eradication and containment of all wild, vaccine-related and Sabin polioviruses, so no child suffers from paralytic poliomyelitis ever again. GPEI has helped countries to make huge progress in protecting the global population from this debilitating disease. 6 The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is a public-private partnership led by national governments and spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, CDC, and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Its goal is to eradicate polio worldwide. More The STOP Program. 7 The Global Polio Eradication Initiative predicts that if polio isn’t eradicated imminently, we could be looking at a global surge of as many as , cases every year within the next decade. As the leading partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, UNICEF is focusing on social and behavior change to address this. 8 One of the fundamental goals of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative is to wipe the polio virus off the face of the earth (similar to the way smallpox was eradicated) and then do away. 9 In , when the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was launched, polio was present in more than countries and paralyzed about 1, children per day. Thanks to immunization efforts that have reached nearly 3 billion children, the incidence of polio has decreased by 99 percent since then. 10 12