We've seen the eradication of smallpox.

We should abandon this idea of eradication.

The key to the drug eradication is jobs.

Finishing polio eradication is the right thing to do.

We may see the eradication of polio this year.

But smallpox eradication was hard it was very, very hard.

But smallpox was the fourth disease that was intended for eradication.

Here we come down with the eradication of smallpox, better education, health service.

And this is because disease eradication, it's still the venture capital of public health.

And polio eradication, in many ways, is even tougher, and there's a few reasons for that.

And for that reason, polio eradication it's the ultimate in equity and it's the ultimate in social justice.

And our big idea is that the scientific miracle of this decade should be the complete eradication of poliomyelitis.

The huge social movement that's been involved in polio eradication is ready to do way more for these children.

We may see the eradication of guinea worm next year there are only 35,000 cases left in the world.

And at the same time, the polio eradication program has been working to help with a lot of other areas.

And so what you can see is that just the mosquito proofed housing, and nothing else, caused the eradication of malaria.

What the polio eradication program is trying to do is to kill the virus itself that causes polio everywhere on Earth.

The reduction of this, along with the eradication of boredom, also reduces the rate of crime and substance abuse within the community.

They point to the successes of aid the eradication of smallpox, and the distribution of tens of millions of malaria bed nets and antiretrovirals.

If you go into a country with the right tools and the right way, you do it vigorously, you can actually get a local eradication.

And if we can finish polio eradication, the poorest countries in the world are going to save over 50 billion dollars in the next 25 years alone.

Within a couple of years, every country that started polio eradication rapidly eradicated all three of their polio viruses, with the exception of four countries that you see here.

But I was at a TED event recently and Esther Duflo, probably one of the leading experts in, effectively, the eradication of poverty in the developing world, actually spoke.

We have major challenges, you can imagine, to finish this job, but as you've also seen, it's doable, it has great secondary benefits, and polio eradication is a great buy.

Now it took years to build up the infrastructure for polio eradication more than 15 years, much longer than it should have but once it was built, the results were striking.

One congressman here in the United States thinks that the entire investment that the U.S. put into smallpox eradication pays itself off every 26 days in foregone treatment costs and vaccination costs.

The Seva Foundation was started by a group of alumni of the Smallpox Eradication Programme, who, having climbed the highest mountain, tasted the elixir of the success of eradicating a disease, wanted to do it again.

Well, the first is, instead of sending a billion dollars on drug eradication and paying it to a couple of security companies, they should give this hundred billion dollars to 50 of the most critically innovative companies in the world to ask them to create one million jobs.

But the most exciting thing that the polio eradication program has been doing has been to force us, the international community, to reach every single child, every single community, the most vulnerable people in the world, with the most basic of health services, irrespective of geography, poverty, culture and even conflict.

And so when the going got really tough in the polio eradication program about two years ago, when people were saying, We should call it off, the Polio Partnership decided to buckle down once again and try and find innovative new solutions, new ways to get to the children that we were missing again and again.