World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, is a global campaign that aims to highlight the importance of collective action to promote vaccination. In 2024, World Immunization ...
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Immune response to TCV in Nepal
Nepal is a typhoid-endemic country with one of the world’s highest typhoid burdens. Recognizing the burden of typhoid, alongside the impact on local communities, policy makers in Nepal made the ...
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Nepal’s typhoid conjugate vaccine campaign: a catalyst to reach zero-dose children
Nepal bears one of the most significant global burdens of typhoid, with approximately 82,000 cases resulting in 900 deaths annually. Most of these cases afflict children younger than age 15 ...
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How do water samples help identify typhoid burden?
Typhoid, caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhi (S. Typhi), is notoriously difficult and expensive to diagnose. The gold standard diagnostic is blood culture confirmation, which is often unavailable at community ...
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A new diagnostic tool to understand typhoid burden
Typhoid remains extremely challenging to diagnose. The current gold standard diagnostic is laboratory confirmed blood culture. These tests are difficult to perform and require specialized laboratory skills and facilities. Many ...
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Unpacking the burden of enteric fever in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan: Findings from SEAP Phase II
Typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) can significantly reduce typhoid incidence in endemic communities. For policymakers in countries considering TCV introduction, accurate data are needed to inform the decision-making process. New data ...
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A typhoid-free life: Portraits of TCVs
Vaccines’ ability to protect us from disease is the incredible result of centuries of scientific progress. Infectious diseases have plagued humanity from the beginning of time, cutting lives short. But ...
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Vaccine reaches Nepal’s provinces just in time for typhoid season
Note: This post originally appeared on the Gavi VaccinesWork website. Typhoid season in Humla, a remote district deep in the Nepalese Himalayas, is fast approaching. However, Surbir Shahi, a ...
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Celebrating Nepal’s typhoid conjugate vaccine introduction
Vaccines are one of the most effective public health interventions against infectious diseases. Today, I am happy to share that Nepal added typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) to our Expanded Program ...
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Uncovering the true typhoid burden in Bangladesh, Malawi, and Nepal
Typhoid causes more than 9 million cases and more than 110,000 deaths each year. Most of this burden is concentrated in areas of South and Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa ...
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