Bangladesh has launched a national vaccination campaign to protect 50 million children from typhoid, aiming to ensure their safety from the life threatening disease.
During the nationwide campaign, a single dose will be administered to 50 million children aged between 9 months and 15 years.
The vaccine being used is the World Health Organization (WHO) approved Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV), which provides effective protection for up to five years and will be provided free of cost by the government.
The campaign has been launched under the government’s Expanded Programme on Immunization. Typhoid has become an increasingly antibiotic resistant disease spreading rapidly across South Asia. Pakistan has been dealing with such resistant strains since 2016, which are immune to nearly all available medicines.
Recently, Bangladeshi experts have also discovered ceftriaxone resistant strains a worrying development in the fight against typhoid.
