Tag: Nepal

Uncovering the true typhoid burden in Bangladesh, Malawi, and Nepal

Posted on November 17, 2021 by James Meiring, University of Oxford and University of Sheffield; and Andrew Pollard, University of Oxford

Typhoid causes more than 9 million cases and more than 110,000 deaths each year. Most of this burden is concentrated in areas of South and Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa ...

Long-term protection against typhoid for children in Nepal

Posted on October 26, 2021 by Adwoa Bentsi-Enchill, WHO

In late 2019, just two years after the World Health Organization (WHO) prequalified the first typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV), Typbar TCV®, efficacy results from a typhoid-endemic country—Nepal—were released. Those interim ...

The economics of typhoid: Updates from the IHEA World Congress

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Laura Kallen

Typhoid is costly. It costs families and medical centers time and resources. It can cost a child days away from school. And it costs government health systems resources. Treatment can ...

Piecing together the typhoid surveillance puzzle

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Jessica Farley and Esau Mkisi, PATH

For decision-makers considering introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCV), data are key. National surveillance systems are the main mechanism for capturing data on typhoid cases but creating an effective typhoid ...

Beyond Morbidity and Mortality, Understanding the Burden of Enteric Fever in South Asia: New Results from Phase II of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP)

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Dr. Denise Garrett, Sabin Vaccine Institute

Disease surveillance has long served as the foundation of public health, generating data to help guide policies and programs to effectively control and prevent a multitude of diseases. However, for ...

One step closer to untreatable typhoid

Posted on November 19, 2020 by Megan E. Carey, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Yogesh Hooda, Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Junaid Iqbal, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Abhilasha Karkey, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal; Ruby Jain, Civil Hospital, Manimajra, Chandigarh, India; Denise O. Garrett, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, USA; Duy Pham Thanh, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit-Vietnam; Neelam Taneja, Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India; Farah Qamar, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Senjuti Saha, Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Stephen Baker, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

This post was originally posted on the Gavi #VaccinesWork blog. Typhoid, the infectious disease caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhi (S. Typhi), is spread through contaminated food and water and ...