Polio is a disease on the cusp of eradication. With your support, we could end it for good.



UNICEF is delivering millions of vaccines to control a recent polio outbreak on Australia's doorstep in Papua New Guinea. So far we have immunised 994,860 children, with frontline workers travelling by air, land and sea to protect children across the country. This is a major setback to the eradication effort, but there is hope. We are closer than ever to ending polio. In 1988 there were 350,000 cases of polio in the world and by 2014 this number had dropped to 359. Now, only 80 cases remain. Never before in the history of polio have there been so few children in so few countries with this cripping virus. It's possible to eradicate this disease within our lifetime.



This Christmas, you can choose a life-saving gift: $72 can buy enough polio vaccines to immunise 300 children.