BANGLADESH has recently embarked on an unprecedented public health drive 鈥� vaccinating five crore children against typhoid fever. The campaign, one of the largest ever in the country, is both ambitious and necessary. Yet it also raises crucial questions about the choice of vaccine, the process of adoption, and the broader priorities of public health investment...
THE government has set an ambitious target of administering typhoid vaccines to 50 million children and adolescents, aged between nine months and 15 years, under an Expanded Programme on Immunisation campaign that would begin on October 12. But the response to the campaign has so far been reserved. The Directorate General of Health Services says that..
The government for the first time has set an ambitious target to administer typhoid vaccine to some five crore children and adolescents amid pervasive public hesitation.
