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World Polio Day 2017

25/10/2017

World Polio Day celebrates the last stages of the fight against polio.
We are targeting Polio because it's SIGNIFICANT and it's ACHIEVABLE.
Rotary started this fight. Let's END it.

The World Polio Day show was broadcast live from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation HQ in Seattle, USA.

More on World Polio Day : www.endpolio.org/world-polio-day
Donate : https://www.endpolio.org/donate

Polio News September 2017

30/9/2017

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Ending Polio Forever

26/7/2017

Weekly polio updates

Afghanistan

One new wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case was reported in the past week, bringing the total number of WPV1 cases for 2017 to five. It is the most recent case in the country, with onset of paralysis on 19 June from Kandahar.

Pakistan

No new wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case was reported in the past week; the total number of WPV1 cases for 2017 remains three. The most recent case in the country had onset of paralysis on 11 June, from Killa Abdullah, Balochistan

So far, there have been 8 cases of wild polio this year.

Polio has been eradicated in Malaysia but we still need to vaccinate children against polio. Why?

Because as long as polio still exists in these two countries, it could spread again. The only way to ensure polio does not make a come back is to ERADICATE POLIO GLOBALLY.

Vaccinating Every Last Child

What is required to close the gap?

Eradicating Polio SAVES money in the long run.

Rotary Citation Criteria:
Focus & Increase Humanitarian Service

Rotary Citation Criteria:
Enhance Rotary's Public Image and Awareness

Ideas to promote awareness and raise funds for PolioPlus:

World's Greatest Meal: Fundraising by organising a meal.

Rotary Crocus: Fundraising by sales of Crocuses

Interact Club of Heng Ee of RC Penang raised RM3,000 for PolioPlus by having a car-wash fundraiser.

Global Polio Eradication: DROP TO ZERO.

Donate to help End Polio Forever

Thank you DGND Lioh Cheng Lim for your contribution to the Eradication of Polio from the planet.

16/11/2016

PRE-POLIOPLUS HISTORY: THE PHILIPPINE PROJECT 1978

11/10/2016

Extracted from:
https://www.rotaryeclubone.org/makeups/articles/thephilippinepolio/

Clem Renouf, Rotary International President in 1978-79 dreamed of eradicating Polio from the Philippines. He worked through the Philippine Health Organization, and with a Rotary Foundation Grant in 1978 the Philippine Government joined Rotary International in a 5-year project to eradicate Polio from the Philippines by immunizing all of the children. The strategy for the Philippine Project was developed, and the necessary resources were marshaled to implement the plan.

In 1979, at the Rotary Convention in Rome, Italy, when Jim Bomar was the incoming President of RI, PDG Jun Tambunting met with President Sergio Mulish of the Rotary Club of Rome. During that meeting, President Sergio announced that the ROTARIANS OF ROME was ready to help the children of the Philippines and they had 500,000 polio vaccines ready to be airlifted to the Philippines.

In a few weeks, the vaccines arrived in Manila. PDG Jun Tambunting and PDG Benny Santos were on hand to pick up the polio vaccine at the airport together with the senior officers of the Department of Health. Six months later another 500,000 vaccines were delivered, for a total of one million from Rome.

In1980-1985, after Rotary International (RI) approved the 3H program, to immunize six million children in the Philippines PDG Jun Tambunting was appointed as the 3H Chairman (Health). With the help of the Department of Health, which had the lists of children below 5 years in all barangays (villages) in the country. The Philippines was the first country to have its children immunized from Polio and other dreaded diseases.

Video source: https://vimeo.com/31740127

Minister of Health of Nigeria on the Response to the Resurgence of Polio in Borno, Nigeria

10/10/2016

Prof. Isaac Folorunso Adewole, Minister of Health of Nigeria in an interview on 7th October 2016. 60 million doses of vaccines will be administered by the end of the year. Also needs improvement in water supply and sanitation.

Do Boondh - Two Drops of Polio Vaccine

5/10/2016

Prevention is better than cure.

#EndPolioNow

4/9/2016

Dear friends,

'About 25,000 people were paralysed in and around New York, and 6,000 of those died.'

Who could guess that the above was referring to polio? That was a hundred years ago, in 1916. Since then, sanitation has improved, bringing poliovirus transmission down. The major breakthrough that brought hope of eradication of this crippling disease, however, were vaccines by Salk and Sabin in the 1950's and 60's.

In 1979, RI President Sir Clem Renouf and District 7620 Governor Dr John Sever pushed for a partnership by Rotary with governments around the world to eradicate a disease from the face of the earth. This was because polio is a serious disease with a potential to be completely eradicated. It was significant AND achievable.

In 1985, PolioPlus was born.

How it started, watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/scTIoeepZFg

Why PolioPlus?

Before launching an ambitious program in 1985 to protect all the world's children against the crippling disease of polio, Rotary's leadership deliberated at length over the initiative's name. "Polio" was chosen to signal Rotary's quest for a polio-free world, and "plus" was added to express Rotary's conviction that a focused attack on polio would also spur a dramatic increase in immunizations against the five other childhood vaccine-preventable diseases targeted by WHO's Expanded Programme on Immunization: measles, tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus.

Global Polio Eradication Initiative

In 1988, Global Polio Eradication Initiative was formed, being a partnership between national governments, WHO, Rotary, the US CDC and UNICEF.

https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/news-media/meet-our-polio-partners

What is being done?

Polio Eradication and End-Game Stretegic Plan (PEESP) 2013-2019, Top 5 costs:

Supplement vaccination work in a number of countries
Cost of Vaccines
Surveillance, including establishing and running labs
Switch from Oral polio vaccine to inactivated polio vaccine
Communications, Engagement & Social mobilization

Result

From 350,000 polio cases a year in 1988, polio is almost eradicated with only 26 cases of polio so far in 2016 (3 in Nigeria, 9 in Afghanistan and 14 in Pakistan).

Challenges

Challenges include attacks on vaccination workers and police protecting them, killing 89 workers and police personnel since 2012 in Pakistan.

Latest update reported in Australian media:
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/pakistan-afghanistan-last-frontiers-in-100-year-war-on-polio/7574148

Listen to the radio program:
https://radio.abc.net.au/programitem/pex3X9VPaQ?play=true

A new challenge has also emerged in Nigeria where 3 new cases of polio have been diagnosed in Borno State, Nigeria.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2016/nigeria-polio/en/

What can we do now?

1. Give to TRF's PolioPlus:
https://map.rotary.org/en/securememberservices/Pages/SelectFundR.aspx?FUND=PP

Every dollar you give is matched another 2 dollars by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Last year, the total contribution to PolioPlus from District 3300 was USD 30,026, which is close to USD 20 per capita. This year, one of the Presidential Citation goals for TRF is giving USD2650 to PolioPlus.

2. If your club is having any EndPolioNow program, fund-raising or public image program, please keep us updated. Let us help in any way we can.

3. Keep updated with #EndPolioNow at http://www.endpolio.org/

4. World Polio Day is on 24th October, i.e. in 2 months' time. Learn how you can promote Rotary's signature program here:
http://www.endpolio.org/worldpolioday.

Resources for #EndPolioNow projects, web/social media and print publications are available at http://www.endpolio.org/worldpolioday/#resources

5. If you have contributed to PolioPlus, send PP Dr Bernard Chan of RC Bandar Sungai Petani , a photo of you in the "This Close" pose. Send an original resolution photo of at least 2MB, via email, please. PP Dr Bernard will then endeavour to create a "This Close" photo of you. Please feel free to call PP Dr Bernard Chan at +6016-4441677 or email drbernardchan@gmail.com.

Some fundraising and public image programs organised for polio:

World's Greatest Meal to raise funds for polio eradication.
http://wgmeal.com

Sale of Rotary Crocuses to raise funds and awareness. Crocuses are the same color as the ink used to mark those who have been vaccinated.

http://www.rotarycrocus.com
http://www.rotarygbi.org/what-we-do/purple4polio/

Miles to End Polio is a bicycle to raise funds as well.

https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/news-media/miles-end-polio-6-million-crosses-finish-line-polio-eradication

Polio Campaign by Rotary International in Pakistan.

We hope that you will give generously to PolioPlus :-)
On behalf of the District 3300 Rotary Foundation Commitee;

Kirenjit Kaur (Chairman) - Polio &
Dr Bernard Chan (Deputy Chairman) - Polio

#EndPolioNow with DG Darul Abdullah

18/8/2016

District 3300 Governor Darul Abdullah gives the This Close sign.

Donate to PolioPlus, the Rotary Foundation fund used specifically for polio eradication, supporting the Global Polio Eradication Initiative together with WHO, UNICEF and CDC. The only countries with ongoing infections are Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. It matters to us because polio can make a comeback if it is not fully eradicated globally.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged to match every USD given with another 2 USD, tripling your giving.

If you give RM100, the USD25 will become USD75 and supply 500 doses of vaccines.

World Polio Day 2015 Broadcast

27/10/2015

#EndPolio will benefit all of us, because polio is just a plane ride away. We're so close. This is the last lap in eradicating polio.

Give to #EndPolio: http://ideas.rotary.org/Project/Profile/842897ca-43f5-4809-8b02-f2aff99b5d76