The committee, whose members were appointed by the health secretary and include vaccine skeptics, will meet on Thursday to review recommendations for several shots.
The parasitic infection schistosomiasis affects an estimated 200 million people globally, many of them children. But campaigns to identify and treat it face formidable hurdles.
After climbing in the business world, she received a dire diagnosis, spurring her to found leading nonprofit groups to promote early detection and research.
She co-founded the organization after she was outraged to learn that children were starving after World War I, when the British blocked aid to several countries.
His innovations, including homelike delivery rooms and birthing pools, were based on his belief that “human birth cannot work as long as a woman is thinking.”
Contraceptives bought by U.S.A.I.D. have been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse. The U.S. government said the products were destroyed, but local authorities found them.
