Zimbabwe has faced recurring droughts in recent years, leading to severe water shortages. As a result, many Zimbabweans rely on alternative water sources, often resorting to shallow water that may ...
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Partnering with countries to deliver TCVs
During World Immunization Week, we celebrate the lifesaving power of vaccines and the health care workers and policymakers who deliver and introduce vaccines in their communities. At TyVAC, we’ve had ...
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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ever-evolving EPI
World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, is a global campaign that aims to highlight the importance of collective action to promote vaccination. In 2024, World Immunization ...
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A typhoid-free life: Portraits of TCVs
Vaccines’ ability to protect us from disease is the incredible result of centuries of scientific progress. Infectious diseases have plagued humanity from the beginning of time, cutting lives short. But ...
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Typhoid conjugate vaccine arrives in Zimbabwe
This week, Zimbabwe began to fulfil its promise to protect children from typhoid. As this large integrated national vaccination campaign begins, typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) will be newly introduced, and ...
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Driven by Data: Insights from World Water Week At Home 2020
The power of data is increasingly recognized for its ability to help solve complex public health challenges and inform public health decision-making. One of the biggest and enduring public health ...
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A delicate and difficult balance
In December, I dubbed 2019 “a year to celebrate.” TyVAC published promising interim results from the study in Nepal that showed the new typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) safe and effective ...
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Keep on “swinging for the fences”
Earlier this year, Bill and Melinda Gates issued their 2020 annual letter—Why we swing for the fences—sharing their reflections on their foundation’s first twenty years. For those of us working ...
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Prevention in Action: Sister Pricila Mkahanana
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 ...
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A billion miles traveled and no safe water to be found
Every year—from South Sudan to Uganda, Myanmar to Bangladesh, Syria to Jordan—millions of people endure long, dangerous and difficult journeys to find safety and refuge. Safety from violence and persecution; ...
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