Polio Plus

After 20 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease, but a strong push is needed now to root it out once and for all. It is a window of opportunity of historic proportions.

Since the PolioPlus program’s inception in 1985, more than two billion children have received oral polio vaccine. But Rotary’s work is not done: The disease has not yet been eradicated. Support Rotary’s dream of a polio-free world.

During National and Subnational Immunization Days, volunteers help immunize millions of children every year with the oral polio vaccine. In this video, we follow the vaccine from factory to immunization booth. Find out what it takes to get a drop of vaccine in every child’s mouth.

As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, children everywhere remain at risk. The stakes are that high.