• 1979: Rotary launched its first Health, Hunger and Humanity (3-H) Grant project to immunize roughly 6 million children against polio in the Philippines.

• 1985: Rotary established PolioPlus, launching the first and largest internationally coordinated private-sector initiative to fund and support global public health.

• 1988: Rotary became a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) alongside the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Over the decades, Wild Polio has been hunted down and eradicated Nation by Nation.  The last two Nations still trying to eradicate the Wild Polio are Pakistan and Afghanistan.  In 2026, there have been 48 Wild Polio cases with 42 from Afghanistan and 6 from Pakistan.   Wild poliovirus cases have decreased by over 99.9% since the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988.

EndPolio.org has plenty of information on efforts/activities to eradicate Worldwide.