Thanks to UNICEF Special Representative Sebastião Salgado for his commitment to the cause of polio eradication and generous donation of photographs to this site.

Thanks to the Canadian International Development Agency (Canadian Government) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US Government) for funding support for this web site.

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All photographs © as indicated:
I - Endemic polio – WHO/21618/March of Dimes
II - Vaccine breakthrough
UNICEF/HQ85-0005/Balazar
III - Push for eradication
Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images

1 - 1580BC
1350BC WHO
2 - 1796
Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina
3 - 1909
WHO
4 - 1916
Lewis H. Hines, Courtesy George Eastman House
5 - 1921
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
6 - 1938
March of Dimes
7 - 1943-1950
UNICEF/UNRRA1663/Norman Weaver
8 - 1952
WHO/21618/March of Dimes
9 - 1952
UNICEF/ICEF0895
10 - 1954-1957
WHO
11 - 1954
March of Dimes
12 - 1959
CDC/Stafford Smith
13 - 1960-1977
UN photo + UNICEF/ICEF6293/Alastair Matheson
14 - 1980
WHO/J.F. Wickett
15 - 1985
UNICEF/HQ01-0011/Giacomo Pirozzi
16 - 1985
UNICEF/HQ85-0005/Balazar
17 - 1988
UNICEF/HQ91-0293/Mainichi Shimbun/Asabe
18 - 1990
UNICEF/HQ91-0902/Roger Lemoyne
19 - 1994
PAHO/Armando Waak
20 - 1995
WHO
21 - 1996
UNICEF/HQ01- 0126/Roger Lemoyne
22 -1997-1998
UNICEF/HQ99-0596/Giacomo Pirozzi
23 - 1999
WHO/Marcel Crozet
24 - 2000
UNICEF/HQ91-0918/Roger Lemoyne
25 - 2001
Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images

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© Sebastião Salgado

India, 2001
A boy, paralyzed by polio, is prepared for corrective surgery to help straighten his atrophied muscles. Doctors and other health workers periodically donate their services to help polio-afflicted children and others who cannot afford medical care.