A health economist’s job is to provide data to help decision-makers determine the best use of limited public resources. We assess and compare the costs and benefits of different interventions ...
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Author: Dr. Fumbani Limani, Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust and Frederic Debellut, PATH
Let’s talk typhoid: Past, progress, and future projections
Imagine rewinding back to only five years ago. Typhoid is responsible for millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. It disproportionately affects a large portion of our ...
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Reflections on a year of vaccines
As many of us wrap up our work for 2021 and look forward to some time away from the office for rest and time with loved ones, it is a ...
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Uncovering the true typhoid burden in Bangladesh, Malawi, and Nepal
Typhoid causes more than 9 million cases and more than 110,000 deaths each year. Most of this burden is concentrated in areas of South and Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa ...
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Long-term protection against typhoid for children in Nepal
In late 2019, just two years after the World Health Organization (WHO) prequalified the first typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV), Typbar TCV®, efficacy results from a typhoid-endemic country—Nepal—were released. Those interim ...
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Arts-based community mobilization and social impact
The introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCV) into a national immunization system takes sizeable resources. Teams from various government offices, agencies, and civil society organizations must work together to plan ...
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Arts-based methodologies as a tool for community engagement, team building
The introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCV) into a national immunization system takes sizeable resources. Teams from various government offices, agencies, and civil society organizations must work together to plan ...
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Arts-based methods in social mobilization for vaccines
The introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCV) into a national immunization system takes sizeable resources. Teams from various government offices, agencies, and civil society organizations must work together to plan ...
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Has drug-resistant typhoid reached Latin America? Genetic evidence from Colombia
Photo: Panoramic view, Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia. The Antioquia Health Department has seen a high rate of typhoid cases, mainly in the geographic region of Uraba. Drug-resistant typhoid is a rising ...
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TCV is highly immunogenic in Malawian children
New results from an immune response study in Malawi found that TCV may offer longer-lasting protection of up to three years for children as young as 9 months old! learn ...
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