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1970s

Era launch year places a public health program in the year it actually began. Wikipedia records the Global Polio Eradication Initiative as "an initiative created in 1988, just after the World Health Assembly resolved to eradicate the disease poliomyelitis." Browsing by launch year traces how organized disease-fighting campaigns have grown over time.

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1955 1
1970s
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1. Wikipedia: Global Malaria Eradication Programme
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationMalaria, Eradication efforts section, disease eradication framing
Quote, Malaria, Eradication efforts section, disease eradication framing
In 1955, WHO launched the Global Malaria Eradication Program.
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