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 ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Martha & Thapelo Charlos
For twenty-eight-year-old Martha Charlos, November 2017 was a difficult month. She had been facing personal hardships, and when her four-year-old daughter, Thapelo, began to feel ill, Martha was so depressed ...
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: Jazeera
Meet Jazeera, a 27-year-old single mother of three. She lives in the heavily populated township of Ndirande in the city of Blantyre, Malawi. Jazeera describes herself as a strong, courageous ...
Read moreBeyond excited: Malawi moms line up to participate in qualified typhoid conjugate vaccine trial
Of all the people involved in the successful vaccination of a child, there’s one whose role is crucially important and yet rarely gets the recognition she deserves: the mother. Mothers ...
Read moreStories of Typhoid: Sarah
Author Note from Valentina Picot, Research Advisor, Fondation Mérieux: Fondation Mérieux is currently validating a novel enteric fever diagnostic test in an African setting. Throughout this process, there are a ...
Read moreIn Malawi, An Outbreak at a Nursing School Shows the Far-Reaching Consequences of Typhoid
In Malawi, where typhoid is endemic, an outbreak has struck—of all places—a nursing college. This week, over 200 students at the St. Luke’s College of Nursing in Malosa, Malawi were ...
Read moreFondation Mérieux holds trials for new enteric fever diagnostic test
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 ...
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