Tag: Polio

My mother’s birthday and World AIDS Day dovetailed each other for years, until her death at age 92, in 2007. During her final years, I was grateful to be working for a national HIV/AIDS organization — life-affirming work which required me to travel across country in early December, to...

When the modern drive to eradicate polio began in 1988, gasoline was 90 cents a gallon, Ronald Reagan was president, you could still get shot trying to climb the Berlin Wall, and the World Wide Web was nothing more than lunchroom banter between physics geeks in a suburb of Geneva. Globalization, the...