Verdens Poliodag 24. oktober
Verdens Poliodag den 24. oktober markeres verden over av klubbene i Rotary. Rotary International er i førersetet når det gjelder bekjempelse og utryddelse av sykdommen Polio. Men det behøves penger til det viktige vaksinasjonsarbeidet. Støtt oss med VIPPS til 577258.
Bill Gates støtter arbeidet:
Gates, og Melinda og Bill Gates fond er en av de andre viktige medspillerne i denne kampen. Vaksinering er metoden som brukes for bekjempelse/ utrydding.
Resultatene som er oppnådd er fantastisk gode. Både Polio type-vill-2 og type-vill-3 er nå utryddet. Nå gjenstår kun Polio type-1 som forekommer i Afghanistan og Pakistan. I dag er vi svært nærme å kunne lykkes!
For hver 100-lapp vi i Rotaryklubbene samler inn til formålet, - vil Bill Gates legge til to 100-lapper. Dvs våre 100 kroner blir til 300 kroner. Da monner det!
Støtt oss i dette arbeidet med VIPPS til Gjøvik Rotaryklubb, 577258.
Les et innlegg om saken fra Bill Gates her:
We’re closer than ever to eradicating polio
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..And closer than ever to seeing a resurgence. By Bill Gates published 7 days ago
When most Americans think of polio, we probably picture President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1921, at age 39, he was paralyzed by the virus and never regained the use of his legs. His story helped turn polio into a national cause. But in many ways, his experience was an anomaly.
After all, polio is overwhelmingly a childhood disease, with the vast majority of cases affecting those younger than five. That was true when FDR fell ill, and it’s true today. The typical patient isn’t an adult with an already established political career—it’s a little kid, often a little kid in a low-income country, who might never get the chance to take his first steps.
That injustice is one big reason I've spent the past two decades working to eradicate polio. The other reason is that eradication is actually possible, realistic, and well within reach. This is a disease we can get rid of—not just control, but eliminate everywhere. That is a rarity in global health.
The world has already made extraordinary progress. Back in 1988, when Rotary International and the World Health Assembly set the goal of eradication, the virus was paralyzing more than 350,000 children each year across 125 countries. Since then, cases have dropped by 99.9 percent. The strains known as Type 2 and Type 3 wild poliovirus have been eradicated. The entire African continent is certified wild-polio free. Only two countries—Afghanistan and Pakistan—still have persistent transmission of Type 1 wild poliovirus.
Now we're closer than ever to total polio eradication. But the last mile is proving the hardest because viruses find ways to exploit any immunity gaps or weaknesses. Wherever vaccination rates slip—even briefly—they can resurface.
One of the biggest challenges comes from what are called variant outbreaks. In communities where immunization is low, the weakened virus used in the oral polio vaccine can circulate asymptomatically and rarely, over time, mutate enough to regain the ability to cause paralysis in unvaccinated children.
While most variant outbreaks happen in places with extremely low vaccination coverage, poor sanitation, and weaker health systems, no place is risk-free until the world is polio-free. In 2022, the United States confirmed its first paralytic polio case in nearly a decade, and the virus was detected in New York wastewater samples. In the time since, variant polioviruses have also been found in the U.K., Ukraine, Indonesia, and other countries.
The good news is that today’s tools are better than anything we had even five years ago, and they make every dollar spent on the cause go further than ever before. We have a new oral vaccine, nOPV2, that’s far less likely to mutate and lead to new variant outbreaks; nearly two billion doses have already been given worldwide. New regional labs in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda that test wastewater samples and sequence viruses have cut detection times by over 30 percent, which gives health workers a critical head start on outbreak response. And the surveillance network for polio is one of the most sophisticated ever built—also helping alert public health officials to outbreaks of cholera, measles, Ebola, and even COVID-19 at the height of that pandemic.
The Gates Foundation has been proud to support these advances as part of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a coalition of the WHO, UNICEF, the CDC, Gavi, Rotary International, and dozens of countries’ governments. It’s one of the most successful collaborations in the history of global health.
But right now, GPEI is facing a $1.7 billion funding gap, with various long-term donor governments cutting back their support. Without the right resources, vaccination campaigns may have to be scaled back, surveillance sites will likely close, and the virus could spread globally.
In the century since FDR was paralyzed by the virus, American leadership and generosity have helped turn polio into a fight the whole world could win. From the March of Dimes, which funded research, to the development of the first vaccines, to support for eradication campaigns, U.S. commitment has been decisive.
The world is at the brink of ending this terrible disease, and the stakes of this moment couldn’t be higher. If we finish the job, we free up billions of dollars for other health priorities and—most importantly—protect generations of children from a virus that has paralyzed millions. If we back down from the fight, up to 200,000 children could be paralyzed each year within a decade.
We have the scientific tools and infrastructure needed to cross the finish line. And we have hundreds of thousands of committed vaccinators who are determined to get us there—who go door to door across deserts, jungles, floodplains, and war zones to make sure no child is missed. I've met them, I've heard their stories, and I've seen how determined they are to finish the job.
We should be too.
17. juni 2020
Oppslag om Gjøvik Rotaryklubbs dugnad på Skibladner
I dagens utgave av Gjøviks Blad får Gjøvik Rotaryklubb mye spalteplass og masse bildedokumentasjon grunnet den innsatsen vi gjør for å støtte driften av skibladner. "Vasket hele Skibladner før årets sesongstart" - er deres oppslag.
13. juni 2020
Skibladner klargjøres til seiling på Mjøsa
Gjøvik Rotaryklubb "satte alle kluter til" på onsdag 10. juni ombord i Skibladner, - for å bidra til at den stolte skuta blir rengjort og seilingsklar til sesongen starter. Hele 16 medlemmer stilte med bøtter, kluter og skrubb!
5. juni 2020
Alt ble totalt uforutsigbart- da koronaviruset slo til
Vårt klubbmedlem Lasse Rindahl fortalte om sine opplevelser i inn og utland som medarbeider i Mustad Autoline da koronaviruset slo til. Hans beskrev en situasjon der alt pluteslig ble totalt uforutsigbart.
29. mai 2020
Hvordan framstille biodisel - hva er vitsen?
Kjell Rudlang tok oss med på et tilbakeblikk og oppdatering om hva biodisel egentlig er, og hva slags nytte denne har i sammenheng med CO2 og de målene som er satt for å redusere utslipp. Interessant og tankevekkende innlegg!
26. mai 2020
Konsulentbransjen lite merket av koronakrisen
Til klubbens møte på Mølla onsdag 20. mai kunne president Nils Terje Haavi ønske hele 20 medlemmer velkommen. Kveldens 3-minutter og hovedpost var ved Bjarne Palm som fortalte om konsulentbransjens utfordringer under samfunnets nedstegning.
6. mai 2020
Forretningsdrift med koronastopp
Gjøvik Rotaryklubb "holder hjulene igang" ved at egne medlemmer stiller opp med foredrag om aktuelle emner. Deretter legger vi umiddelbart ut en fersk video på Facebook og hjemmesiden. Peter Huuse fortalt den 6. mai om forretningslivet etter 12. mars.
29. april 2020
Rotarymøte uke 18, 2020, som video-opptak!
Gjøvik Rotaryklubb gjenopptar aktiviteten etter de første ukene med koronanedstengning og en hyttefri påske! Tirsdag 28. april ønsket presidenten 4 andre medlemmer fra årets styre velkommen til møte. Alt ble videofilmet og deles med medlemmene her!
29. april 2020
Skibladner, utfordringer i seilingssesongen 2020
Rotarymedlem og direksjonsformann i AS Opplandske Dampskibsselskap, Bjørn Blickfeldt, ga oss en orientering om selskapets utfordringer i forkant av seilingssesongen 2020. Både nødvendig vedlikehold og koronasmitten har gitt selskapet store utfordringer.
5. april 2020
Påskehilsen fra presidenten
President Nils Terje Haavi i Gjøvik Rotaryklubb har sendt en hyggelig hilsen og oppmuntring til klubbens medlemmer i forkant av den kommende påska, - ei påskehelg som sikkert blir krevende for oss alle. Se påskebrevet fra presidenten her!