I spoke with him about winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his leadership in ending small pox, announced last week by President Obama.

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On April 12, 1955, scientists and reporters gathered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a momentous event. Millions of Americans huddled around radios and televisions that day to learn whether the world’s first polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh, could prevent a devastating disease that killed and paralyzed thousands upon thousands of people, mainly children.

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If family planning services, including information about reproductive health, access to birth control, and health care, were available to all women, the deaths of 100,000 women during childbirth could be prevented every year.

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Until very recently, India had more polio cases than any country in the world. This past Saturday the World Health Organization officially removed India from the polio endemic country list. India had successfully reached one year without a reported case of wild poliovirus.

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Amid the proliferation of political news and commentary in recent years, reporting about the world’s most vulnerable populations—the poor, the displaced, and the victims of conflict—seems to have been left behind.

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