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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How can Zimbabwe mitigate the risk of typhoid amid a drought?
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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What have we learned from a 5-year-long study on typhoid conjugate vaccination in Bangladesh?
Typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) are powerful tools to prevent typhoid. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends administering a single dose of TCV in countries where typhoid is endemic and/or drug-resistant ...
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What do we know about typhoid intestinal perforation?
Typhoid fever is a serious enteric infection that can be cured through timely and accurate diagnosis and appropriate antibiotic treatment. However, this process is often difficult in low- and middle-income ...
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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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A roadmap to tackling drug resistance in Africa
Drug resistance is a major global health challenge and it’s getting worse. A multitude of factors are contributing to the growth of drug resistance in general, and drug-resistant typhoid specifically ...
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Typhoid leaves its mark for generations
The significance of typhoid runs deep in my family. My mother grew up in the 1920s in British India—now Bangladesh—with 9 siblings. During that time, large families were common due ...
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