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 ...
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Tag: Malawi
Beyond 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 ...
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Stories 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 ...
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In 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 ...
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Fondation 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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