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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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1. Wikipedia: Expanded Programme on Immunization
WikipediaEssential Programme on Immunization, lead section
Quote, Essential Programme on Immunization, lead section
It was launched in May 1974 under the old name of Expanded Programme on Immunization.
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