Tag: Zimbabwe

Boy wearing mask making rock n roll gesture as he receives a vaccine. text: "Noel: Rocking his shot"

A typhoid-free life: Portraits of TCVs

Posted on April 22, 2022 by Laura Kallen

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 ...

A young boy smiles with his vaccination card after receiving typhoid conjugate vaccine in Zimbabwe

Typhoid conjugate vaccine arrives in Zimbabwe

Posted on May 25, 2021 by Elayna Oberman, PATH

This week, Zimbabwe began to fulfil its promise to protect children from typhoid. As this large integrated national vaccination campaign begins, typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) will be newly introduced, and ...

Driven by Data: Insights from World Water Week At Home 2020

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Noah Duff and Oumou Dao, Sabin Vaccine Institute

The power of data is increasingly recognized for its ability to help solve complex public health challenges and inform public health decision-making. One of the biggest and enduring public health ...

A delicate and difficult balance

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Dr. Kathleen Neuzil, Director, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine and TyVAC

In December, I dubbed 2019 “a year to celebrate.” TyVAC published promising interim results from the study in Nepal that showed the new typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) safe and effective ...

Women leaders across #TakeOnTyphoid

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Take on Typhoid team

Meet some of the incredible #ScienceSHEroes behind our work to advance health equity. Fact: Half of the world’s population is represented by women. Another fact: Fewer than 30 percent of ...

Keep on “swinging for the fences”

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Elena Pantjushenko, PATH

Earlier this year, Bill and Melinda Gates issued their 2020 annual letter—Why we swing for the fences—sharing their reflections on their foundation’s first twenty years. For those of us working ...

Prevention in Action: Sister Pricila Mkahanana

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Sister Pricila Mkahanana, Mbare Poly Clinic

Frontline healthcare workers—physicians, nurses, laboratory personnel, community health workers (CHWs), and social mobilizers—confront typhoid in their communities every day, and therefore have an integral role in typhoid prevention and control. During ...

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