By Mathshidiso Moeti for All Africa.

In 1995, polio affected all countries across Africa and paralysed more than 75,000 children for life.

The following year, then South African president Nelson Mandela launched a new campaign, Kick Polio Out of Africa.

His hope was that polio would follow the only human disease ever consigned to the history books: smallpox. Today we are one step closer to achieving that goal.

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Photo: Polio vaccination campaign in South Sudan. UN Photo/JC McIlwaine.