Tag: TCV

Leading the way: Pakistan introduces typhoid conjugate vaccine

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Farzana Muhib, Senior Program Officer, PATH

Today, Pakistan made history as the first country to introduce typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) into its routine childhood immunization program. This is a monumental moment for Pakistan and global typhoid ...

Young boy in Sindh Province, Pakistan, receives TCV at the campaign launch ceremony November 15, 2019.

Gavi: Pakistan Becomes First Country to Introduce New Typhoid Vaccine into Routine Immunization Program

Posted on November 15, 2019 by admin

Press release from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance: Gavi-supported introduction of new and improved typhoid conjugate vaccine to offer protection against increasingly drug-resistant disease KARACHI (15 November 2019) — Pakistan today ...

Children in the African region, such as these children in Kenya, have a lot to gain from typhoid conjugate vaccine introduction.

Our time is now: typhoid as a priority for the African region

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Chris Odero, Technical Advisor, PATH

This week I am in Brazzaville, Congo to attend the Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group (RITAG) meeting organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) African region office. The RITAG meeting ...

Boy in Pakistan receives typhoid conjugate vaccine

When the water isn’t clean, vaccines offer protection

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Ashley Latimer, PATH

Recent news stories from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Zimbabwe, and Venezuela all have one thing in common: running water is generally not available. The reasons for the lack of ...

Guarding against infection from all possible angles

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Adam Drolet and Laura Kallen, PATH

Primum non nocere. First, do no harm. This phrase, espoused in the Hippocratic Oath, serves as the bedrock for the provision of medical care. Yet, for too many individuals and ...

Prevention in Action: Sister Pricila Mkahanana

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Sister Pricila Mkahanana, Mbare Poly Clinic

Frontline healthcare workers—physicians, nurses, laboratory personnel, community health workers (CHWs), and social mobilizers—confront typhoid in their communities every day, and therefore have an integral role in typhoid prevention and control. During ...