Polio is a preventable disease. There is no cure for polio, but it can be prevented through vaccination. 

South Africa provides routine vaccination for poliovirus. 

The current vaccination schedule in the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI-SA) consists of two doses of bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) at birth and 6 weeks of age, followed by the trivalent inactivated polio vaccine (tlPV) included in the hexavalent vaccine at 6, 10, and 14 weeks of age, and finally, a booster dose of tlPV is given at 18 months of age. The polio vaccine is safe and effective, and can protect a person for life.

 Polio Awareness Week: A Preventable Disease, But Only with Your Help - NICD