Bill Gates: More Targeted Vaccines Can Eradicate Poliobr World Economic Forum - 2011 World Economic Forumbr A special message from the Government of the United Kingdom and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on ridding the scourge of polio completely from the world. Polio cases have been reduced by 99 globally, but there are still over 1,000 known cases in developing countries that are crippling children.