Partners
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is led by national governments in partnership with the four spearheading partners:
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Rotary International
- US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Other partners include:
- the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- the United Nations Foundation and other private foundations
- development banks (e.g. the World Bank)
- donor governments
- the European Commission
- humanitarian and nongovernmental organizations (e.g. the International Red Cross and Red Crescent societies)
- corporate partners (e.g. Aventis Pasteur, De Beers)
- volunteers in developing countries.