India To Vaccinate 300,000 Children After Polio Strain Found In Sewage

India plans to urgently immunize around 300,000 children against the crippling polio virus after a strain of the highly contagious disease was detected in sewage in the sou...

Diagnosing India’s Growing Health Problem

The Indian health story has trended upwards going by the standard indicators of health. Besides significantly increasing the longevity of its citizens and keeping a check o...

Outsmarting Polio

While a global campaign to vaccinate every child on the globe has reduced incidence of polio by 99 percent, wiping out the disease in the last handful of countries has prov...

10 Outrageous Things You May Have Heard About VaccinEs

There’s lots of hot air circulating about vaccines. We’re here to set the record straight, because vaccines are at the heart of our work – keeping childre...

Off-Label Use Of IPV Vaccine To Tide Over Shortage

Due to shortage of Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) globally, India and a few other countries are stretching the supply of the vaccine to cover all children. The IPV vaccine...

Bill Gates Predicts Eradication Of Polio In Pakistan By 2017

Bill Gates said Wednesday that "with any luck" polio will be eradicated by 2017 in the last two countries where it remains active, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Mic...

Kishore Fights Poverty And Polio To Become A Leading Gym Instructor

A dynamic and highly energetic gym trainer, V. M. Kishore Kumar personifies the example of victory over nature’s predicament. Read the story of how this young man wor...

Disability No Hurdle, Prakash Shows The Way

Prakash, who is 90 percent physically disabled and belongs to Mumbai, donated blood for the 77th time at the PGI today.
Prakash M Nadar was afflicted by polio during ...

Abhishek Bachchan Travels To Different Cities To Raise Funds For Underprivileged Kids.

Several Bollywood personalities have supported and promoted varied causes including working for the development of kids, women and even animals. While his father and megast...