Tag: TCV

Woman holds a young child with a vaccination card, with water in the background

Improved WASH plus TCV shown to further reduce typhoid in Bangladesh

Posted on May 4, 2022 by Birkneh Tilahun Tadesse, Farhana Khanam, Firdausi Qadri and John D Clemens

Improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are key to preventing the spread of typhoid where sanitation infrastructure is insufficient. For further reduction in the typhoid burden, typhoid conjugate vaccine ...

Vaccine reaches Nepal’s provinces just in time for typhoid season

Posted on April 14, 2022 by Chhatra Karki

Note: This post originally appeared on the Gavi VaccinesWork website. Typhoid season in Humla, a remote district deep in the Nepalese Himalayas, is fast approaching. However, Surbir Shahi, a ...

Children at typhoid conjugate vaccine vaccination site, Malawi

Let’s talk typhoid: Past, progress, and future projections

Posted on February 22, 2022 by Dr. Kathleen Neuzil, Dr. Emmanuel Mugisha, and Dr. Andrew Pollard

Imagine rewinding back to only five years ago. Typhoid is responsible for millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. It disproportionately affects a large portion of our ...

First TCV effectiveness study in Central Africa launched in the DRC

Posted on February 14, 2022 by Professor Octavie Lunguya, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, and the TyVECO study team

To read this blog in French, please click here As the urgency for typhoid prevention and control continues into a new year, February 10 marked a step forward with the ...

Vaccines can protect against drug-resistant typhoid

We can’t stop drug-resistant typhoid without vaccines

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Joseph Walker, Dr. Ruthie Birger, and Dr. Virginia Pitzer, Yale School of Public Health

For an increasing number of communities, typhoid is a real and dangerous threat. Symptoms can last for weeks or months, keeping children out of school and preventing families from earning ...

Child wearing mask receives typhoid conjugate vaccine, Zimbabwe

Reflections on a year of vaccines

Posted on December 13, 2021 by Emmanuel Mugisha, PATH

As many of us wrap up our work for 2021 and look forward to some time away from the office for rest and time with loved ones, it is a ...

Group of children wait to get vaccinated with TCV

The time for typhoid conjugate vaccines is now

Posted on October 4, 2021 by Aziza Mwisongo, PATH

In many ways, 2017 may seem like a lifetime ago; yet our world has changed drastically. Most notably, our current daily routines have been changed by COVID-19, altering the way ...

Health care worker administers TCV to a boy as part of the TCV trial in Malawi

Now we know: typhoid conjugate vaccines are highly effective in African children

Posted on September 15, 2021 by Dr. Phionah Atuhebwe, WHO AFRO

Results from a historic study—the first typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) study in Africa—are in. The verdict? TCVs work in Malawian children, with an impressive 84% efficacy. As the Regional New ...

Health care worker's gloved hands hold TCV vial. Credit: Susan Nimarota Brown

Amidst a global pandemic, Samoa rolls out TCV and other new vaccines

Posted on August 30, 2021 by Michael Sikorski, University of Maryland School of Medicine, MD-PhD Candidate

The year 2020 was going to be the year of immunizations in Samoa. A mass measles vaccination campaign halted the deadly 2019 measles crisis that shook the small island nation ...

Doctor checks girl's heartrate before administering TCV in Ghana

Building on more than a decade of typhoid surveillance: Ghana’s TCV cluster-randomized study

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Professor Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Ghana Principal Investigator and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

August 23, 2021 marks a monumental and great day for Africa! Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Ghana undertook the herculean task of launching TyVEGHA, the first cluster-randomized, controlled Phase IV study ...

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