Resources

This issue of PATH Today shares a breakthrough for a vaccine against Japanese encephalitis and the story of Dr. Nekoye Otsyula, a researcher on PATH's malaria vaccine trial. PATH donors Brian Arbogast and Valerie Tarico describe their approach to giving—supporting solutions that let people take care of themselves.

This fact sheet outlines PATH's work on vaccines and immunization. Topic areas include developing affordable vaccines, designing innovative vaccine technologies, and expanding uptake of existing vaccines. These efforts reduce the burden of malaria, meningitis, diarrheal disease, Japanese encephalitis, pneumococcal disease, influenza, rotavirus, polio, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and other infectious diseases in developing countries.

This analysis estimated the cost effectiveness of the Woman’s Condom in 13 sub-Saharan African countries when assessing its impact as both a contraceptive and for HIV prevention. This groundbreaking analysis was first presented at the 2013 International Family Planning Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

A Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Program introduced by APHIAplus Western Kenya has considerably reduced diarrheal cases among students at Munyang’anyi Primary School in Kenya’s Bungoma County.

Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH’s work to advance an accurate, noninvasive device that could be used to screen for anemia in low-resource settings at the point of care by minimally trained health workers.