The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded a $36.9 million grant to an international consortium led by the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Center for Vaccine Development to accelerate the ...
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High and Dry With Typhoid
In the wake of the strongest El Niño event ever recorded, severe drought is strongly affecting parts of Southern Africa, causing crops to fail and water sources to dry up. ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Meet Nurunnahar Meet Nurunnahar. Like many grade-schoolers around the world, this Bangladeshi nine-year-old girl thought she would cool off from the heat of the summer with a glass ...
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Every year, the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) annual meeting brings together the brightest minds from around the world to share the latest research on tropical medicine ...
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Meet Nurunnahar. Like many grade-schoolers around the world, this Bangladeshi nine-year-old girl thought she would cool off from the heat of the summer with a glass of lemonade. But this ...
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About the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting The ASTMH Annual Meeting is a five-day educational conference that draws tropical medicine and global health professionals representing academia, ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Meet Samir Meet Samir. The six-year-old son of a carpenter in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Samir is usually a “happy, school-going child.” But earlier this year, his mother and father, ...
Read moreWHO SEARO Typhoid Meeting Report
Global & South-East Asia region typhoid researchers assembled in New Delhi, India on September 28-29 for the World Health Organization’s Informal Consultation of Experts in Typhoid Fever. The meeting reviewed ...
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Meet Samir. The six-year-old son of a carpenter in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Samir is usually a “happy, school-going child.” But earlier this year, his mother and father, Hasina Akhter and Mohammad ...
Read moreHandwashing Saves Lives
Do you remember learning how to wash your hands as a child? An adult would have taught you how to run your hands under running water and lather with soap ...
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