Meet Gift King’Oo, a one-year-old boy visiting the community health clinic in Mukuru, Kenya, an informal settlement just outside of Nairobi. In February 2018, Gift started getting sick, exhibiting common ...
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Our time is now: typhoid as a priority for the African region
This week I am in Brazzaville, Congo to attend the Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group (RITAG) meeting organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) African region office. The RITAG meeting ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Mothers in Kenya
Typhoid is a common bacterial infection that can have an outsized impact on young kids and their families, particularly for moms who are the primary caregivers. Symptoms such as prolonged ...
Read moreCaT researcher publishes evidence of unrecognized burden of typhoid in Africa
Last week, Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) member Rob Breiman, M.D. of CDC-Kenya, published findings that rates of typhoid and multi-drug resistant (MDR) typhoid are much higher than previously thought in ...
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