As climate change causes the Earth’s average temperature to rise, myriad environmental challenges result, from glaciers melting faster than ever to warming oceans and more severe and frequent weather events. ...
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Tag: typhoid conjugate vaccine
La résistance aux médicaments rend urgente l’introduction des vaccins antityphoïdiques conjugués
Au cours du siècle dernier, nous avons été témoins de progrès remarquables en matière de santé mondiale. Les diagnostics et les traitements, ainsi que les vaccins et autres outils de ...
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Drug resistance drives urgency for typhoid conjugate vaccines
Pour lire ce blog en français, veuillez cliquer ici. For the past century we have witnessed remarkable gains in global health progress. Diagnostics and treatments, plus, vaccines and other health ...
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Time to take action with TCV in India
India has long grappled with a significant public health challenge—an alarmingly high typhoid burden. In 2017, more than half of the world’s typhoid cases were projected to have occurred in ...
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Reflections from the 2024 Asia Regional Meeting on Typhoid and TCV
At the end of August 2024, key decision-makers and stakeholders from 13 Asian and Western Pacific nations gathered in Delhi, India, for the 2024 Asia Regional Meeting on Typhoid and ...
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Typhoid conjugate vaccines, safe and effective in HIV-exposed uninfected children
While great progress has been made to reduce the burden of typhoid, there are more than 7 million cases per year and more than 93,000 annual deaths, according to recent ...
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Connecting with the community: the success of Pakistan’s TCV campaign
Despite the proven success of vaccination programs to reduce disease burden and eliminate certain diseases, Pakistan continues to struggle with vaccine hesitancy. The latest typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) campaign, held ...
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Robust microplans are key to reaching every child in immunization campaigns
A successful immunization campaign depends on several critical elements to achieve the goal of reaching every child with a certain vaccine. Microplans are program documents, created prior to a campaign, ...
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As waters rise, so does risk of typhoid
In addition to improved water and sanitation, typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) can prevent illness to at-risk communities during extreme weather events. Heavy rains and flash flooding in Kenya have displaced ...
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Uncovering the origins of H58 to stop drug-resistant typhoid in its tracks
Article published in Nature Portfolio Communications Biology, please see link here. Since the 1940s, antibiotics have been used to treat typhoid. With the rise of drug-resistant Salmonella Typhi (S. Typhi), ...
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