Improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are key to preventing the spread of typhoid where sanitation infrastructure is insufficient. For further reduction in the typhoid burden, typhoid conjugate vaccine ...
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Author: Birkneh Tilahun Tadesse, Farhana Khanam, Firdausi Qadri and John D Clemens
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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How Senegal can be a catalyst for new water and sanitation paradigms
The 9th World Water Forum, held in Dakar, Senegal from March 21-26, 2022, is the first of its kind to be hosted in sub-Saharan Africa. As a public health expert ...
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Local health economic research can foster resilience in African health systems
A health economist’s job is to provide data to help decision-makers determine the best use of limited public resources. We assess and compare the costs and benefits of different interventions ...
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Let’s talk typhoid: Past, progress, and future projections
Imagine rewinding back to only five years ago. Typhoid is responsible for millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. It disproportionately affects a large portion of our ...
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Reflections on a year of vaccines
As many of us wrap up our work for 2021 and look forward to some time away from the office for rest and time with loved ones, it is a ...
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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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Long-term protection against typhoid for children in Nepal
In late 2019, just two years after the World Health Organization (WHO) prequalified the first typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV), Typbar TCV®, efficacy results from a typhoid-endemic country—Nepal—were released. Those interim ...
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Arts-based community mobilization and social impact
The introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCV) into a national immunization system takes sizeable resources. Teams from various government offices, agencies, and civil society organizations must work together to plan ...
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