The UK has promised to spend £100m to finally eradicate polio worldwide independent.co.uk

The UK has committed to spending an extra £100m as part of a final push to eradicate polio. It is hoped the move, hailed as “fantastic” by Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates, will completely wipe out the disease. The fund will be used to help immunise up to 45 million children against polio each year until 2020 – when it is hoped the world could be declared polio-free.