A Multibillion-Dollar Plan to End Polio, and Soon A global partnership announced plans to spend more than $5 billion to eradicate poliovirus. A door-to-door polio vaccination campaign underway this week in Peshawar, Pakistan.Credit...Bilawal Arbab/EPA, via Shutterstock June 9, 2021, 6:11 p.m. ET As the world adjusts to the idea of coexisting with the coronavirus for the foreseeable future, global health organizations are laying plans to eradicate another scourge that has already lingered for thousands of years: poliovirus. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a public-private partnership led by national governments and health groups, on Wednesday released a $5.1 billion plan to eradicate polio by 2026.