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. All photographs © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images with the exception of designated photographs in the 'History of polio' section, credited below. This site was designed by PixelPress. (www.pixelpress.org) PIXELPRESS: Director: Fred Ritchin Designer: Emily Bahna Design Consultant: Zohar Nir-Amitin Managing Editor: Ambreen Qureshi Editorial Assistance: Laetitia Kouassi, Alice Proujansky Editorial production and oversight by UNICEF in collaboration with WHO. UNICEF: Producer & Editor: Ellen Tolmie Writer: Mark Dennis Photography researcher (History of polio): Lisa Adelsen Editorial oversight: Siddharth Dube and Denise Searle WHO: Technical Editor: Christine McNab Supporters and Advisors: Amazonas Images: Lèlia Wanick Salgado, Françoise Piffard, Marcia Mariano, Dominique Granier UNICEF: Communication: Marjorie Newman-Williams, Tanya Accone, Elizabeth Barrie, Tamara Bifidi, Marc Chalamet, Olga Chambers, Mohammad Jalloh, Jan Mun, Shehzad Noorani, Carlos Perellon, Nicole Toutounji Programme: Maritel Costales, Edward Hoekstra, Dennis King, Carl Tintsman Supply: Shanelle Hall, Stephen Jarrett Country Offices: UNICEF Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Operation Lifeline Sudan, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, and Somalia. WHO: Communication: Claudia Drake Technical: Bruce Aylward, Jonathon Veitch, Jeff Partridge Country Offices: WHO Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, Somalia, South East Asia Regional, and Sudan Rotary International: Communication: Viviane Fiore Technical: John Severs Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Communication: Steven Stewart Technical: Robert Keegan Governments: Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Pakistan, Sudan and Somalia History of polio photography credits: 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 Site design © PixelPress 2002 This site and all content on it, with the exception of materials specifically designated as copyrighted by others, is © UNICEF 2002 [on behalf of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative]		© 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.