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Gates and Rotary commit up to $450 million to the 'final push' against polio
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At the 2025 Rotary International Convention, Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation joined Rotary in committing up to $450 million over three years to finish the global eradication of polio, a disease now endemic in only two countries — Afghanistan and Pakistan. Gates said the world is '99.9%' of the way to eradication but that the last stretch demands the same determination that brought it this far. The funding supports vaccination campaigns, the next-generation nOPV2 oral vaccine — of which more than 1.6 billion doses had been administered by mid-2025 — and emergency operations and cross-border coordination in the remaining endemic areas. Polio eradication has been one of the Gates Foundation's longest-running priorities.
Source: https://www.rotary.org/en/qa-with-bill-gates-the-optimist
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