Earlier this year, Tuvalu launched a typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) campaign in schools and local communities, aiming to protect the entire population from typhoid. The country has recently seen an ...
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Author: Natano Elisala, Deputy Secretary for the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Tuvalu
Vaccination is a community achievement: The faces of a typhoid conjugate vaccine campaign in Fiji
This post originally appeared on the International Vaccine Institute’s website on July 28. “A vaccination campaign requires a lot of manpower and resources, not only from the health personnel but ...
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Improvements in WASH are needed to protect communities
Improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), one of the key UN Sustainable Development Goals, are critical to improving community protection from disease. The consequences of inadequate WASH systems can ...
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As monsoon rains intensify, so does typhoid risk in India
India is used to heavy rains between June and September, which is considered the rainy season and when most of South Asia’s annual rainfall occurs. Unfortunately, monsoons in the area ...
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Vaccination toward elimination: Protecting communities in Fiji’s Northern Division from typhoid
This blog was originally posted on the International Vaccine Institute’s website on July 24, 2023. As we walk through the courtyard, students on their way to class hold up their ...
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Treating typhoid costs more than money
In January 2023, Kwasi (a pseudonym) was a patient at Afrancho Polyclinic in the Afigya Kwabre South District of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He had been in the hospital ...
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TCV mass vaccination campaign in Vanua Levu, Fiji
Pacific Island nations including Fiji, Samoa, Nauru, and Papua New Guinea suffer frequent typhoid outbreaks and a substantial number of typhoid cases. Fiji, an archipelago of more than 100 inhabited ...
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Vaccines for children everywhere: The importance of preventive care for refugees
Our world is as mobile and transient as ever. As of June 2022, there were more than 27 million refugees and more than 53 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), forced ...
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Ten years of surveillance finds a variable but persistently high typhoid burden in Kibera, Kenya
Typhoid remains a public health threat in many countries, particularly in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding a country’s typhoid burden is often one of the first steps toward prevention ...
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The importance of gender equity to take on typhoid together
Professor Iruka N. Okeke is a professor, researcher, mentor, and long-time champion of typhoid control. She lives and works in Nigeria, a typhoid endemic country that faces increasing threats from ...
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