In 1988 the world adopted a goal of making polio the second disease to be eliminated, after smallpox. The United Nations Fund for Children and the World Health Organization led the charge. Rotary International has been a primary supporter of the work, and we wouldn’t be anywhere on this without their efforts. Many people probably think polio has already been eradicated...

Read more in Bill Gates' 2009 Annual Letter from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation