Since 1988, polio cases have dropped by 99%. As part of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative since 2007, we work to finish the job and eradicate polio worldwide. We make grants to develop more effective vaccines, expand routine immunizations, and improve polio surveillance and outbreak response.
Interview with Valerie Nkamgang Bemo on COVID-19. Bemo manages the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s investments that support communities affected by natural disasters and complex emergencies.
In 2016, as Nigeria prepared to announce two years without a case of wild poliovirus, two children in northern Nigeria tested positive for polio. In an instant, the country’s track…
While the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s new strategy is being finalized, India is in the midst of its own health campaign that uses the polio eradication playbook to take on…
