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Committed over $4 billion to global polio eradication
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The Gates Foundation became the single largest funder of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, committing over $4 billion toward wiping out poliovirus worldwide. Gates treated the effort as a personal mission, meeting repeatedly with heads of state to maintain immunization campaigns in high-risk regions including Afghanistan and Pakistan. Wild poliovirus cases fell by more than 99.9% from an estimated 350,000 annual cases in 1988 to fewer than 20 in recent years.
Source: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/our-work/programs/global-development/polio
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