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Provisional Agenda
Polio facts

Future Benefits of Polio Eradication

• The savings of polio eradication, once immunization stops, are estimated to be US$ 1.5 billion per year - funds that can be used to address other public health priorities.

• In many countries polio eradication is expanding the capacity to tackle other diseases by building effective disease reporting and surveillance systems, training epidemiologists and establishing a global laboratory network.

• No child, regardless of race, sex, ethnicity, economic status or religious belief, need ever fear and suffer from this crippling disease.

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