While travelling to conduct a health needs assessment in Uganda’s countryside, I began to feel unwell and visited the nearest health center. The health worker drew blood and tested for ...
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Author: Joy Kusiima, Public Health Fellowship Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda
Knowledge Exchange Newsletter, March 2017
Conference Programming The 10th International Conference on Typhoid and Other Invasive Salmonelloses is fast approaching. This will be the largest typhoid conference ever, with more than 300 participants from 45 countries. ...
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Enteric Fevers, Fallen Empires: When Typhoid and Paratyphoid Toppled Civilizations
By today’s standards, enteric fever, which includes typhoid and paratyphoid, is easily treatable and preventable – but in the days before antibiotics and vaccines, outbreaks of these diseases were so ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Asim Meet Asim. In his low-income urban neighborhood in Pakistan, it can seem as if the one thing more widespread than typhoid is misinformation about typhoid. Crucial information ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Asim
Meet Asim. In his low-income urban neighborhood in Pakistan, it can seem as if the one thing more widespread than typhoid is misinformation about typhoid. Crucial information on the prevention ...
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Recurring Typhoid Nightmare in Zimbabwe
After struggling with outbreaks for more than a year, Zimbabwe is facing yet another deadly wave of typhoid as it begins the new year. Hundreds of cases have been reported ...
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Be an Advocate for Typhoid
Learn how to take on typhoid through advocacy actions at the global, regional, national, subnational, and even community levels. Read More
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Looking Back on 2016
As 2016 has come to a close, our team at the Coalition against Typhoid would like to take a moment to reflect on this busy year. It was a year ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Meet Dr. Asim Shrestha Meet Asim Shrestha. As a practicing pediatrician in Dhulikhel Hospital in Kavre District, Nepal, Dr. Shrestha is all too familiar with the story ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Dr. Shrestha
Meet Asim Shrestha. As a practicing pediatrician in Dhulikhel Hospital in Kavre District, Nepal, Dr. Shrestha is all too familiar with the story of typhoid. A steady stream of children ...
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