How was smallpox wiped out? | World Economic Forum Smallpox is the only infectious disease that’s been successfully eradicated It was eradicated by a collaborative global vaccination programme led by the World Health Organization
How can we eradicate poverty by 2030? | World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is tied to no political, partisan or national interests
What makes a disease eradicable? | World Economic Forum Rabies, a disease for which regional elimination is under way, and which might be eradicated in the next decades Tuberculosis, HIV AIDS, and malaria, the three infectious diseases causing most deaths worldwide We explain why they cannot currently be eradicated and what is missing for them to become eradicable
Polio has re-emerged in places where it had been eradicated | World . . . The funding will go towards global efforts to eradicate polio, vaccination programmes, and surveillance of the disease “No place is safe until polio has been eradicated everywhere As long as the virus still exists somewhere in the world, it can spread – including in our own country
Here’s where extreme poverty levels are likely to be in 2050 | World . . . The proportion of people in extreme poverty worldwide could fall below 2% in 2050 under the base forecast from the Center for Global Development Eradicating extreme poverty for all by 2030 is the first goal of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Anyone living on less than $2 15 a day is in extreme poverty, according to the World Bank
From cholera to COVID: a brief history of vaccines To mark World Immunization Week, we look back at the development of the world’s many life-saving vaccines, which have eradicated smallpox and tackled COVID-19
Vaccines have killed off these deadly diseases - The World Economic Forum In the United States, diseases that caused widespread misery and death in past centuries have been eradicated or almost eradicated Cases of diphtheria – a deadly disease that affects a person’s breathing – reduced 100% following the introduction of a vaccine
This is what we’ve achieved through 50 years of vaccination programmes . . . Coordinated programmes helped extinguish infections entirely by 1980 Smallpox is the first disease to have been eradicated by human effort Image: Our World in Data We are now on the verge of eradicating polio, having first developed a vaccine against it in 1955