Estimates suggest that if GBS vaccination reached over 70% of pregnant women, then over 50,000 GBS-related deaths could be averted annually - as well as over 170,000 preterm births.
According to the report, the net monetary benefits from a year of maternalGBS vaccination could reach as high as $17 billion – accruing over several years - if vaccines are affordably priced.
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该报告强调了一些重要的数据差距，这导致B组链球菌造成的死亡和疾病总负担存在某些不确定性。
The report highlights important data gaps which lead to some uncertainty around the total burden of deaths and disease caused by GBS.
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例如，各国往往对死产的传染性原因调查不足，这意味着B组链球菌带来的真正影响可能更大。
Infectious causes of stillbirths, for instance, are often under-investigated across countries, meaning the true contribution of GBS may be even higher still.
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Debbie Forwood 的女儿艾达在感染 B 组链球菌后胎死腹中。
Debbie Forwood, whose daughter Ada was stillborn after she developed a GBS infection, said: “It is difficult to describe the breadth or depth of the grief when your child dies, or the accompanying guilt, and how it changes you, your family, and your relationships forever.
When a vaccine can be widely rolled out, I will weep and scream with the unfairness that it came too late for her, and for all the other babies who are needlessly suffering and dying every year that it is delayed.
But I will also weep with joy that in the future, many more will live, and their families will be saved from the living hell that is the death of a child.”
This report was launched at the global conference on GBS, the ISSAD conference being held by WHO and LSHTM from Wednesday 3 November to Friday 5 November 2021.
This conference aims to mobilize researchers on how to close data gaps and accelerate science to reduce the impacts of this life-threatening bacterium worldwide.