Dr. Raja Khalid Shabbir is a resident in surgery at Holy Family Hospital (HFH) in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, just outside of the capital city of Islamabad. HFH is a government-run teaching ...
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Author: Dr. Raja Khalid Shabbir
It takes a team to take on typhoid
New vaccine introduction is no small task. It’s a process that requires nimble thinking, problem solving, and a commitment to health and equity. Stakeholders and decision-makers considering new vaccine introduction ...
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Typhoid, water, and buried pipelines: A call for better health-WASH integration
Note: This post was originally published on the Global Handwashing Partnership blog. Handwashing with soap and clean water prevents diseases from spreading from the hands to the mouth. Vaccines save ...
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What is optimal? Modeling can help decision-makers determine whether typhoid conjugate vaccines are cost-effective
Vaccination is likely to be cost-effective in countries with high typhoid incidence, high cost of typhoid treatment, and/or high death rates from typhoid.
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How was typhoid eliminated in the past?
The notion of waterborne diseases often conjures images of murky, dirty water. In 1900, such waterborne diseases were responsible for nearly a quarter of reported deaths from infectious diseases in ...
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Harnessing momentum to take on typhoid
Typhoid is a bit of a global health conundrum: it is an infectious disease that has plagued people for centuries and that we rarely see in countries with improved water ...
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WASH and vaccines tag team to prevent disease outbreaks
This post was originally published on the DefeatDD blog. As in 2018, 2019 has seen its share of disheartening headlines of conflict cascading to children and families, who bear the ...
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Drug-resistant typhoid: How it became a global health crisis
The past century has witnessed remarkable global health progress. We have identified treatments and cures for diseases, we have developed vaccines to prevent some of the deadliest diseases, and for ...
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The importance of knowing more: Why we need ongoing studies, research, and data about typhoid
Typhoid is an enteric fever that does not typically receive a lot of attention. Despite nearly 11 million cases and more than 116,000 deaths from typhoid in 2017, the burden ...
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How Pakistan’s new generation of disease hunters helped expose XDR typhoid
The outbreak of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid in Pakistan has now been going on for more than two years. As is the case in most low- and middle-income countries, Pakistan ...
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