After 25 years of remarkable achievements and sometimes harrowing setbacks, a successful conclusion to global polio eradication could finally be within reach. In late April, the Global Vaccine Summit in Abu Dhabi released the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a promising new six-year strategy to win the polio “endgame.”

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Vaccines work to save and improve lives and protect children for a lifetime. They have allowed us to eradicate one disease to date – smallpox in the 1970s, and now we have an opportunity to change history and end another second disease forever – polio.

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By bringing together a number of these initiatives, some of them had been in place for a number of years, some of them were new – but each one helped India reach a point where they were reaching 99% of the children consistently, and then building on the natural immunity.

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The January 14 issue of TIME Magazine includes a powerful feature on the progress, urgency, and serious challenges of ending polio and creating a world where no child has to be threatened by this debilitating disease. (Full text available by subscription
only). The reporter, Jeff Kluger, has been following polio for years and wrote a book about the disease: Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio.

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Working to support the effort to rid the world of polio has taken me to some exotic places. But earlier this month, it took me to Washington, DC (I suppose you could argue this is also quite an unusual spot) to talk with policy makers about the historic
opportunity we have to end polio forever.

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