 Also in October 1999, The CORE Group—with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)—launched its effort to support national eradication efforts at the grassroots level.The CORE Group commenced this initiative in Bangladesh, India and Nepal in South Asia, and in Angola, Ethiopia and Uganda in Africa.By 2001, 575million children (almost one-tenth the world's population) had received some two billion doses of oral polio vaccine.