This article is authored by Deepak Kapur, chairman, Rotary International’s India National PolioPlus Committee (RI-INPPC).

Good news does not always flow freely in India. Too many children still go hungry. Violence against women endures. Inflation is soaring, and gay sex was just criminalized, again. But today India got a ...

SHAHPARA, India (AP) — The scourge of polio ends in India with a lively 4-year-old girl, Rukhsar Khatoon, who became ill as a baby after her parents forgot to get her vaccinated. Her barely ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India on Monday marked three years since its last reported case of polio, paving the way for it to be declared free of the crippling virus and boosting efforts to wipe out the ...

Eleven years after India wiped out polio, a public health victory that once seemed impossible, the country stands at a crossroads. The government's reported plan to gradually shut down the National ...

A child receives polio drops during an Indian polio eradication programme in Jammu. Picture February 19, 2012. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta If India, with all its problems, can eradicate polio, any country ...

Overland was a reporter and public health writer in Asia for more than a decade. She is currently an editor at NPR. My son was 5 years old when he climbed out of bed and landed on the floor. He was ...

After press reports flagged the possibility of an inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) shortage in India, Sanofi says it's ready to supply the nation with a newly approved shot. Thursday, after the company ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Vijay Yeldandi was an energetic and rambunctious toddler when he was ...

Fifteen years ago, a child in West Bengal was diagnosed with what would become India’s final case of wild polio. India — a nation that shouldered 60% of the world’s polio burden at one point — had ...

But the medical profession is in two minds The 8th edition (2024) of the book, “Plotkin’s Vaccines”, seems to promote an entirely different theory – that it is poor sanitation which leads to ...

A Jan. 23 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) shows a woman talking about polio and claiming the disease has been renamed. As proof of this, she points to increased cases of other diseases in ...