India, once considered the most difficult place in the world to stop polio, will celebrate five years without a case this January. But our fight against the disease is not yet over, and with national stakeholders and global partners, the country continues making concerted efforts towards global polio eradication by strengthening routine immunization and introducing new vaccines that are critical to end the disease for good.First, we are introducing the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), a key step in the final push to end polio outlined in the Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan(2013-2018). India launched IPV as part of the country?? national immunization program on 30 November, 2015. With 4 years and 11 months since the last polio case caused by wild polio virus was reported, the launch of IPV has been timely and strategic. The launch realizes one of the first policies that the current Government announced in 2014 ??expanding the routine immunization vaccine portfolio to include IPV, Rota vaccine and Rubella vaccine (Measles Rubella ??R) ??and sets the ball rolling for the launch of Rota vaccine and MR vaccine in the near future. Read More at www.impatientoptimists.org