Drug-resistant typhoid is a growing global health challenge. Antibiotics have been used to treat typhoid since the 1940s, but current antibiotics may not effectively treat typhoid for much longer given ...
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Tag: Kenya
As waters rise, so does risk of typhoid
In addition to improved water and sanitation, typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) can prevent illness to at-risk communities during extreme weather events. Heavy rains and flash flooding in Kenya have displaced ...
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Ten years of surveillance finds a variable but persistently high typhoid burden in Kibera, Kenya
Typhoid remains a public health threat in many countries, particularly in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding a country’s typhoid burden is often one of the first steps toward prevention ...
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Building a stronger market: The benefits of investing in more TCVs
Typhoid is a persistent threat to the health and well-being of millions of people living in low- and middle-income countries where the disease is endemic; there are approximately 9 million ...
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In Kenya, advancing typhoid vaccine science and policy
Last month in Kericho, Kenya, our team was proud to launch a Phase 3 study of the EuTCV typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) candidate. As principal investigators based at Kenya Medical ...
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In Kenya, typhoid carriage in children highlights need for vaccination
Drug-resistant typhoid is endemic to Kenya, with children younger than 16 years of age most heavily impacted. We have known this for years. What we didn’t know was the prevalence ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Sara’s Typhoid Test
Angela Godfrey and her daughter Sara Kambua wait in the health clinic in Mukuru, Kenya. February 5, 2018. It was a Monday in February 2018 when three-year-old Sara had ...
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Multidrug-resistant iNTS: A growing threat in Kenya
This blog is part of a broader series on drug resistance and its increasing threat to global health. Drug resistance is a significant and growing problem across the world for ...
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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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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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