Canada

Canada has provided financial assistance to the global effort to eradicate guinea worm. Canada, along with twelve other donor countries, has contributed to the estimated $87.5 million cost of the campaign. Since the start of the campaign in 1986, disease prevalence has dropped 99 percent and the number of cases has fallen from 3.5 million to less than 35,000.
Through their participation in the Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee, the Canadian Public Health Association contributed financial support to the regional initiative that eradicated polio in Latin America in 1991. The Committee played a crucial role in maintaining political and social will for the initiative.
Canada contributed $2.5 million to the global smallpox eradication campaign between 1967 and 1979. Smallpox was successfully eradicated in 1977.