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The Global Polio Eradication Initiative helped reduce annual polio cases by 99%, from 350,000 in 1988 to 138 cases in 2018.
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The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has successfully reduced global polio cases by 99% over three decades.
Polio has killed and disabled millions. It was therefore with considerable excitement that the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a public–private partnership, announced a US$5·1 billion campaign to achieve a polio-free world by 2025.1 The GPEI has been in the forefront of polio eradication efforts for three decades, and its achievements have played a central role in an outstanding public health campaign, helping to reduce the number of people infected with polio by 99%—from 350 000 annual cases in 125 countries in 1988, to 138 cases in two endemically infected countries in 2018.
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Groce et al. (2021) conducted an editorial in Polio. Global Polio Eradication Initiative was evaluated. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative helped reduce annual polio cases by 99%, from 350,000 in 1988 to 138 cases in 2018.
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