Recent data has confirmed that Bangladesh has one of the highest typhoid burdens in the world. But we have extremely good news. A study conducted in Mirpur, Dhaka, with typhoid ...
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Beyond Morbidity and Mortality, Understanding the Burden of Enteric Fever in South Asia: New Results from Phase II of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP)
Disease surveillance has long served as the foundation of public health, generating data to help guide policies and programs to effectively control and prevent a multitude of diseases. However, for ...
Read moreOne step closer to untreatable typhoid
This post was originally posted on the Gavi #VaccinesWork blog. Typhoid, the infectious disease caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhi (S. Typhi), is spread through contaminated food and water and ...
Read moreDriven by Data: Insights from World Water Week At Home 2020
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 ...
Read moreStories 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 ...
Read moreExperts gather to take action on typhoid and cholera
Today marks the first day of the 15th Asian Conference on Diarrhoeal Disease and Nutrition (ASCODD) taking place in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Ahead of the conference, I sat with Dr. Firdausi ...
Read moreThe 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 ...
Read moreStories of Typhoid: Nurunnahar
Meet Nurunnahar. Like many grade-schoolers around the world, this Bangladeshi nine-year-old girl thought she would cool off from the heat of the summer with a glass of lemonade. But this ...
Read moreStories of Typhoid: Samir
Meet Samir. The six-year-old son of a carpenter in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Samir is usually a “happy, school-going child.” But earlier this year, his mother and father, Hasina Akhter and Mohammad ...
Read moreStories of Typhoid: Nishita
Meet Nishita. A nine-year-old who wants to go to school so badly that she reads her textbook, by herself, by the light of the window in her family’s house. But ...
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