Wishing You a Happy, Healthful, Service Filled, Successful New Year!
Rotary’s World-wide 2022-23 Rotary Year Polio Fundraising Goal is $150 Million – Including the Gates Foundation $2 to $1 Match
Our End Polio Now Committed goal for 2022-2023 Rotary year is $75,000. As of Dec 31, 2022 our District 5790 Rotary Clubs have donated $21,855 to End Polio Now. We are at 29% of the committee's goal. Let's finish out the 22-23 Rotary year with a bang and raise the $53,000 needed to make our goal.
On the Polio battle front in the endemic countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan we ended the final week of the year with no new Wild Polio cases reported.
20,000,000 Children Saved from the Paralysis of Polio Since 1988
Total paralysis cases | Year-to-date 2022 | Total 2021 | Total 2020 | Total 2019 | Total 2018 |
Globally | 30 | 6 | 140 | 176 | 33 |
- in endemic countries: | 22 | 5 | 140 | 176 | 33 |
- in post-endemic countries: | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wild Polio cases reported in the past week: Pakistan 0, Afghanistan 0, Mozambique 0
2022 Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Case Total - 612 Afghanistan - 43, Algeria - 1, Benin - 10 (3 in 2021), Cameroon - 1 (3 in 2021), Central African Republic - 3, Chad - 25 (0 in 2021), DR Congo - 259 (28 in 2021), Eritrea - 1, Ethiopia - 1, Ghana - 3, Indonesia - 1, Israel - 1, Madagascar - 13 (13 in 2021), Malawi - 3, Mozambique - 18 (2 in 2021), Niger - 13 (18 in 2021), Nigeria - 42 (415 in 2021), Pakistan - 8, Somalia - 4 (1 in 2021), Sudan - 1, Togo - 2, United States - 1, Yemen - 159 (69 in 2021) .
2021 Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Case Total - 689 in 22 Countries. 2020 Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Cases - 1,113 in 26 Countries.
New Polio Cases & Samples reported in the last week - Algeria - 3 cVDPV2 Samples, Cameroon - 1 cVDPV2 Case, Chad - 3 cVDPV2 Cases + 3 Samples, DR Congo - 1 cVDPV1 Case, Nigeria - 1 cVDPV2 Sample, Yemen - 7 cVDPV2 Samples.
According to the publication 2022 Gates Notes; "No update on Polio would be complete without a big thank-you to Rotary International. They were part of this effort long before the Gates Foundation was. Since we became partners on eradication, we’ve jointly raised $1.8 billion for this work, and there’s more to come. Rotarians also lead massive vaccination campaigns to reach children all over the world. Sometime in the next few years, when polio is finally eradicated, my first phone call will be to thank and congratulate the team at Rotary International. From Bill Gates’ December 2022 Gates Notes
Finally, Thanks to all of you who personally donated to The Rotary Foundation's PolioPlus Fund in 2022 and those who sponsored fund raisers to create community awareness and spur donations.
Rotary District 5790
End Polio Committee
Troy Secord Chair