For years, Kala-Azar was a death sentence for some of India’s poorest families.
And treatment itself felt like punishment.
15 injections. Every alternate day.
A drug that sometimes caused dangerous heart complications.
For many families, surviving the disease wasn’t the only battle, a month away from work often meant losing the income that kept food on the table.
Prof. Shyam Sundar from Banaras Hindu University looked at this reality and asked:
What if one dose is enough?
In 2010, his landmark study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that a single-dose liposomal amphotericin B treatment could cure Kala-Azar with a 95.6% success rate.
One breakthrough changed everything.
He also helped introduce rapid diagnostic strip tests that cut detection time from weeks to minutes.
WHO updated treatment protocols.
The medicine that cost nearly ₹19,000 per vial started reaching India free through donation programmes.
Today, India has moved from battling Kala-Azar outbreaks to pushing toward elimination.
And behind that story is a professor who spent decades making sure poverty didn’t decide who lives and who dies.
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The 6G train has officially left the station 🚆
3GPP has launched technical studies that pave the way to #6G rollouts by 2030.
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At this week’s #5GSummit with @CTIA, Nokia’s Nishant Batra highlighted the commitment to fully utilize #5G spectrum, aligning with supportive policies in the U.S.