Research into new ways to facilitate eradication $16.6 million
Surveillance for disease detection, including the Polio Laboratory Network $72.5 million
Operational support including stipends for the millions of community-based vaccinators who administer the vaccine and perform house-to-house follow-up visits $308 million
Vaccines $20.4 million
Social mobilization to raise awareness of the vaccination campaigns and the benefits of immunization $141.4 million
Technical assistance including salaries for health and immunization professionals such as field officers and cold chain managers $132 million
And we have a plan for keeping the world polio-free forever.
Interruption
• Detect the last wild poliovirus in an individual or the environment.
• Continue immunizations, surveillance, and responses to outbreaks of vaccine-derived poliovirus.
• Begin to transition the resources that the GPEI created to support other health priorities.
Certification
• Certify the world polio-free.
• Dissolve the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
• Reduce the number of laboratories and vaccine-manufacturing facilities that store the poliovirus and ensure stringent safeguards for those that continue to handle the virus.
• Hold high-quality immunization campaigns to create a firewall of immunity in advance of the withdrawal of the oral polio vaccine.
Transition
• Stop using oral polio vaccine concurrently in all countries to eliminate the risk of vaccine-derived poliovirus and begin to immunize children using only the inactivated polio vaccine in routine immunizations.
• Continue surveillance; after the world is polio-free, environmental surveillance will be increasingly relied on.
• Respond to outbreaks of vaccine-derived poliovirus, which could circulate for several years after ending the use of oral polio vaccine.