We now have strong evidence that typhoid conjugate vaccines are safe and effective, protecting children and communities in typhoid-endemic settings. The question in front of the field is how to ...
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Tag: typhoid
Flooding raises the urgency for typhoid prevention
Pour lire ce blog en français, veuillez cliquer ici. Recent flooding brought on by torrential rains has affected hundreds of thousands of people across Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. In ...
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Les inondations renforcent l’urgence de la prévention contre la typhoïde
Les récentes inondations causées par des pluies diluviennes ont touché des centaines de milliers de personnes au Mozambique, en Afrique du Sud et au Zimbabwe. Au Mozambique, plus de 300.000 ...
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A 21st-Century Take on Typhoid
This blog was originally posted on the Sabin Vaccine Institute website. Typhoid fever is a life-threatening infection that the World Health Organization estimates affects 9 million people each year, mostly ...
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A milestone year: Reaching 80 million children with typhoid conjugate vaccines
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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Act now to stop drug resistance and prevent typhoid
In October 2025, Bangladesh introduced typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs), bringing the total number of children who have received TCV during a campaign to more than 130 million. This milestone would ...
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What one typhoid case tells us about drug resistance and severe typhoid complications
Cover photo: The Hôpital de la SIM Galmi surgical team ready to operate on another case of typhoid. The team operates on about 200 children with typhoid intestinal perforation (TIP) ...
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A firsthand account of why typhoid prevention matters
There are more than 9 million cases and 133,000 deaths from typhoid each year, with the highest burden among children and young adults living in low- and middle-income countries. But ...
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Pakistan prioritizes typhoid control with expanded surveillance efforts
In 2019, Pakistan made history as the first country to introduce typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCV) into its routine childhood immunization program. Six years later, the country has vaccinated more than ...
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A mother’s battle
To read this story in Bangla, click here. This is a fictional story. All characters, events, and places are made up. However, the context in which families live, separated between ...
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