Developing Countries: Poliomyelitis
(asked on 4th July 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding has been allocated by her Department for the eradication of polio globally since 2010.
This question was answered on 11th July 2018
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has been an extraordinary success story with cases being reduced from 350,000 a year in 125 countries in 1988, to 22 last year with only 3 countries not yet declared polio-free. The UK has supported this effort with a current spend of £453 million since 2010, and a cumulative investment of £1.3 billion since 1988. The UK continues to be a staunch supporter of the eradication effort.