Tag: Bangladesh

Woman holds a young child with a vaccination card, with water in the background

Improved WASH plus TCV shown to further reduce typhoid in Bangladesh

Posted on May 4, 2022 by Birkneh Tilahun Tadesse, Farhana Khanam, Firdausi Qadri and John D Clemens

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 ...

Dr. Qadri, recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, presenting at the 2019 typhoid conference

Asia’s premier award and highest honor goes to Dr. Firdausi Qadri

Posted on November 29, 2021 by The Editors, Take on Typhoid

For more than sixty years, the Ramon Magsaysay Award, known as the “Nobel Prize for Asia,” has been the premier prize and highest honor bestowed upon Asian individuals and organizations ...

Uncovering the true typhoid burden in Bangladesh, Malawi, and Nepal

Posted on November 17, 2021 by James Meiring, University of Oxford and University of Sheffield; and Andrew Pollard, University of Oxford

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 ...

Girl in Bangladesh crosses her arms and looks at the camera

TCV is 85% efficacious and urgently needed for Bangladeshi children

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Dr. Firdausi Qadri, icddr,b and Dr. Samir K Saha, Child Health Research Foundation

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 ...

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)

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Dr. Denise Garrett, Sabin Vaccine Institute

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 ...

One step closer to untreatable typhoid

Posted on November 19, 2020 by Megan E. Carey, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Yogesh Hooda, Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Junaid Iqbal, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Abhilasha Karkey, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal; Ruby Jain, Civil Hospital, Manimajra, Chandigarh, India; Denise O. Garrett, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, USA; Duy Pham Thanh, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit-Vietnam; Neelam Taneja, Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India; Farah Qamar, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Senjuti Saha, Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Stephen Baker, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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 ...