Finishing polio eradication is the right thing to do.

We may see the eradication of polio this year.

What the polio eradication program is trying to do is to kill the virus itself that causes polio everywhere on Earth.

And polio eradication, in many ways, is even tougher, and there's a few reasons for that.

And for that reason, polio eradication it's the ultimate in equity and it's the ultimate in social justice.

The huge social movement that's been involved in polio eradication is ready to do way more for these children.

Within a couple of years, every country that started polio eradication rapidly eradicated all three of their polio viruses, with the exception of four countries that you see here.

And at the same time, the polio eradication program has been working to help with a lot of other areas.

End polio now.

We've seen the eradication of smallpox.

Umar also has polio.

We should abandon this idea of eradication.

And if we can finish polio eradication, the poorest countries in the world are going to save over 50 billion dollars in the next 25 years alone.

She was vaccinated against polio.

This is the polio virus.

This is a polio vaccine.

The key to the drug eradication is jobs.

So in the polio example we'll look at rates of polio in a certain sample.

We have major challenges, you can imagine, to finish this job, but as you've also seen, it's doable, it has great secondary benefits, and polio eradication is a great buy.

At even stronger rates than Polio.

We're not trying to control polio.

With polio it's almost completely different.

Blindness, polio early detection, early response.

Now it took years to build up the infrastructure for polio eradication more than 15 years, much longer than it should have but once it was built, the results were striking.

But smallpox eradication was hard it was very, very hard.

No fear, no agony. Polio puff, gone.

Polio is still a devastating, explosive disease.

Now giving the polio vaccine is simple.

But soon we may see polio eradicated.

And we cured fearsome diseases like polio.

But smallpox was the fourth disease that was intended for eradication.

Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in 1952.

What about polio? Let's have that. Why not?

We didn't have polio in this country yesterday.

(Video) Jon Stewart Where is polio still active?

Polio strikes the poorest communities in the world.

This may be the year we eradicate polio.

He was struck with polio when he was five.

But first, let's start with the polio vaccine studies.

But the reality is that polio still exists today.

The reality of polio today is something very different.

Paul Offit ... Vaccine allowed us to eliminate polio virus.

Here we come down with the eradication of smallpox, better education, health service.

And so when the going got really tough in the polio eradication program about two years ago, when people were saying, We should call it off, the Polio Partnership decided to buckle down once again and try and find innovative new solutions, new ways to get to the children that we were missing again and again.

The G8 nations have been incredibly generous on polio over the last 20 years, but we're starting to have something called polio fatigue and that is that the donor nations aren't willing to fund polio any longer.