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 ...
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Author: Noah Duff and Oumou Dao, Sabin Vaccine Institute
Stories of Typhoid: In the Lab with Timothy Mutuma
Timothy Mutuma has been working as a research assistant for the past two years, balancing his time between the clinics in the informal settlements of Mbagathi and Mukuru and the ...
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Drug-resistant enteric fever, antibiotics and the need for clean water
This blog is part of a broader series on drug resistance and its increasing threat to global health. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a critical problem in typhoid fever (caused by ...
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Moving from global action to local impact: New supplement from the 11th International Conference on Typhoid and Other Invasive Salmonelloses
Over the last six months COVID-19 has radically transformed the world. Economies have been jolted, daily life has transformed, research priorities have shifted. The far-reaching impacts of this latest pandemic ...
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Another piece of the puzzle: Using genomic data to understand typhoid burden
This blog is part of a broader series on drug resistance and its increasing threat to global health. For policymakers, prioritization of vaccines for routine immunization programs is a critical ...
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Stories of Typhoid: A Mukuru family
“We didn’t know about typhoid,” Mercy said in her one-room home in Mukuru, an informal settlement east of Nairobi, Kenya. That changed quickly for Mercy, her husband Mbuvi, and their ...
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For refugees, every action counts when we #TakeOnTyphoid
In the early days of our current pandemic, there were many references to COVID-19 as the “great equalizer,” referring to the novelty of the virus and its high degree of ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Fatia Ferdousi
On May 15 we recognize the International Day of Families, a time to focus on the importance of investing in social and economic policies that protect the world’s most vulnerable ...
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When It Comes to Hand Hygiene, There’s No Time for “Pang’ono Pang’ono”
This post also appears on the DefeatDD website. Today is World Hand Hygiene Day, a day to celebrate the simple but important act of using water and soap to clean ...
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A delicate and difficult balance
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 ...
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