As 2025 comes to a close, I’m proud to reflect on the incredible progress on typhoid control accomplished this year. During the last 12 months, more than 80 million children ...
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Tag: Fiji
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ever-evolving EPI
World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, is a global campaign that aims to highlight the importance of collective action to promote vaccination. In 2024, World Immunization ...
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Vaccination is a community achievement: The faces of a typhoid conjugate vaccine campaign in Fiji
This post originally appeared on the International Vaccine Institute’s website on July 28. “A vaccination campaign requires a lot of manpower and resources, not only from the health personnel but ...
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Vaccination toward elimination: Protecting communities in Fiji’s Northern Division from typhoid
This blog was originally posted on the International Vaccine Institute’s website on July 24, 2023. As we walk through the courtyard, students on their way to class hold up their ...
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TCV mass vaccination campaign in Vanua Levu, Fiji
Pacific Island nations including Fiji, Samoa, Nauru, and Papua New Guinea suffer frequent typhoid outbreaks and a substantial number of typhoid cases. Fiji, an archipelago of more than 100 inhabited ...
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Local research identifies sanitation facilities as the major source of Salmonella Typhi in Fiji
Typhoid is a serious and potentially fatal disease spread through contaminated food and water that causes a substantial public health threat in many low-and middle-income countries. The prevalence of typhoid ...
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