evidence: New Delhi: India officially received certificates from World Health Organisation (WHO), declaring the country yaws and maternal and neonatal tetanus free. [...] India is the first country to be officially acknowledged as being yaws-free. India was validated for maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination in April 2015, much ahead of the global target date of December 2015. The elimination of tetanus as a public health problem means that in India, the annual rate of maternal and neonatal tetanus is now less than 1 per 1000 live births.