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 ...
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Long-term protection against typhoid for children in Nepal
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 ...
Read moreThe economics of typhoid: Updates from the IHEA World Congress
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 ...
Read morePiecing together the typhoid surveillance puzzle
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 ...
Read moreBeyond 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)
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 ...
Read moreOne step closer to untreatable typhoid
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 ...
Read moreDriven by Data: Insights from World Water Week At Home 2020
The power of data is increasingly recognized for its ability to help solve complex public health challenges and inform public health decision-making. One of the biggest and enduring public health ...
Read moreA delicate and difficult balance
In December, I dubbed 2019 “a year to celebrate.” TyVAC published promising interim results from the study in Nepal that showed the new typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) safe and effective ...
Read moreNew research from Pakistan finds children are protected from typhoid with new vaccine
During the past three years, Pakistan has confronted a devastating outbreak of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid to become the first country to introduce typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) into routine immunization. ...
Read moreA reassuring new milestone for typhoid prevention
For the past two years, we have been part of the typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) efficacy study being conducted by Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences ...
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