About the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting The ASTMH Annual Meeting is a five-day educational conference that draws tropical medicine and global health professionals representing academia, ...
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Month: October 2016
Knowledge Exchange Newsletter, October 2016
Stories of Typhoid: Meet Samir Meet Samir. The six-year-old son of a carpenter in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Samir is usually a “happy, school-going child.” But earlier this year, his mother and father, ...
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WHO SEARO Typhoid Meeting Report
Global & South-East Asia region typhoid researchers assembled in New Delhi, India on September 28-29 for the World Health Organization’s Informal Consultation of Experts in Typhoid Fever. The meeting reviewed ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Samir
Meet Samir. The six-year-old son of a carpenter in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Samir is usually a “happy, school-going child.” But earlier this year, his mother and father, Hasina Akhter and Mohammad ...
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Handwashing Saves Lives
Do you remember learning how to wash your hands as a child? An adult would have taught you how to run your hands under running water and lather with soap ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Sarah
Author Note from Valentina Picot, Research Advisor, Fondation Mérieux: Fondation Mérieux is currently validating a novel enteric fever diagnostic test in an African setting. Throughout this process, there are a ...
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