India has one of the highest typhoid burdens in the world with an estimated 44.8 million cases in 2019; 54 percent of cases were among children younger than 15 years ...
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Tag: vaccine effectiveness
Test-negative design proves to be suitable for typhoid vaccine effectiveness evaluations
Background on test-negative design Typhoid continues to be a public health threat in sub-Saharan Africa. However, typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) is a proven intervention to reduce the burden of typhoid ...
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First TCV effectiveness study in Central Africa launched in the DRC
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 ...
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Building on more than a decade of typhoid surveillance: Ghana’s TCV cluster-randomized study
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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New research from Pakistan finds children are protected from typhoid with new vaccine
During the past three years, Pakistan has confronted a devastating outbreak of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid to become the first country to introduce typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) into routine immunization. ...
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