Tag: Burkina Faso

Two health care workers administer the typhoid conjugate vaccine to a young boy during Burkina Faso's introduction campaign. Behind them, other workers keep vaccination records, which can help supplement data on typhoid burden.

Data collection in Burkina Faso: Coordinating local partners to gather data on typhoid burden

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Tara Petronio

This blog is part of a series on data collection, highlighting how local data are identified and used by countries to understand typhoid burden and aid in decision-making for TCV ...

Vacciner 10 millions d’enfants avec le vaccin contre la fièvre typhoïde au Burkina Faso

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Dr. N. Christelle Neya/Ouedraogo, Ministère de la santé et de l'hygiène publique, Burkina Faso

Le Burkina Faso est l’un des pays où la morbidité due à la fièvre typhoïde est la plus élevée au monde. Les enfants de moins de 15 ans sont les ...

Reaching 10 million children in Burkina Faso with TCVs

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Dr. N. Christelle Neya/Ouedraogo, Ministry of Public Health and Hygiene, Burkina Faso

Pour lire ce blog en français, veuillez cliquer ici Burkina Faso has one of the highest typhoid burdens in the world. Children younger than 15 years old are most susceptible ...

TCV is highly immunogenic in Burkinabe children 30-35 months post-vaccination

Posted on August 30, 2023 by Alphonse Ouedraogo, Groupe de Recherche Action en Santé (GRAS); Amidou Diarra, Groupe de Recherche Action en Santé (GRAS); Issa Nébié, Groupe de Recherche Action en Santé (GRAS); Nouhoun Barry, Groupe de Recherche Action en Santé (GRAS), and Sodiomon Sirima, Groupe de Recherche Action en Santé (GRAS)

To read this blog in French, please click here. The World Health Organization has prioritized co-administration of TCV with other childhood vaccines including measles and polio. Researchers from the Groupe ...

TCV co-administered with routine immunizations at 9-months

Confirmed! TCV can be co-administered with routine measles-rubella AND yellow fever vaccines at 9 months

Posted on June 3, 2021 by Dr. Sodiomon Sirima, Dr. Alphonse Ouédraogo, and Dr. Nouhoun Barry, GRAS, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

To read this blog in French, please click here. Newly published data from Groupe de Recherche Action en Santé (GRAS), Burkina Faso found typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) is safe and ...

A new study from Burkina Faso further confirms typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCV) are safe, immunogenic and can be co-administered

Posted on November 11, 2020 by Dr. Sodiomon Sirima, Groupe de Recherche Action en Santé

To read the blog in French, please click here. “We are so happy. We are so excited. We are so thankful that TCVs can be safely and effectively co-administered with ...

The importance of knowing more: Why we need ongoing studies, research, and data about typhoid

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Katherine Theiss-Nyland, University of Oxford; James Meiring, University of Oxford; and Matt Laurens, University of Maryland School of Medicine

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 ...

Fondation Mérieux holds trials for new enteric fever diagnostic test

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Stéphane Pouzol, Fondation Mérieux

Data on incidence of enteric fever are unreliable due to the lack of specificity and sensitivity of the current gold standard diagnostic methods (blood culture or serological Widal and Felix ...