when did worldwide efforts to eradicate polio begin
Poliomyelitis eradication In 1988, the World Health Organization, together with Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention passed the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, with the goal of eradicating polio by the year 2000. The Initiative was inspired by Rotary International's 1985 pledge to raise $120 million toward immunising all of the world's children against the disease.[69] The last case of wild poliovirus poliomyelitis in the Americas was reported in Peru, August 1991.[69]