Group B Strep International
Promoting awareness and prevention of
group B strep disease in babies
during pregnancy through early infancy
group B strep disease in babies
during pregnancy through early infancy
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), each year nearly 20 million pregnant women carry group B strep (GBS). Although GBS is harmless for most pregnant individuals, it can be extremely serious when it passes to babies during pregnancy, childbirth or in the early weeks of life.
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Special thanks to Aayan's mother for sharing her son's voice making the grunting sounds which are a common, yet often unrecognized, sign of GBS meningitis
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The WAVES Study
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Participate in the WAVES Study to help determine the gaps in GBS care and communication. If you’ve had a baby (with or without group B strep disease) conceived on or after January 1, 2003, we want to hear from you! Help prevent future babies from becoming infected!
Remember to share with friends and family so we can all wave goodbye to group B strep disease in babies! |
What We Do
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What You Should Know
Each of the three distinct time periods when GBS can infect babies has its own prevention challenges and strategies.
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How You Can Help
There are many ways to help from sharing a brochure with a pregnant friend to organizing a trail ride fundraiser to starting an awareness campaign with your department of health!
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GBSI's Newsletter: The Globe, September 2023
Projects, Campaigns, and News Worldwide
Participate in the WAVES Study to help determine the gaps in GBS care and communication. If you’ve had a baby (with or without group B strep disease) conceived on or after January 1, 2003, we want to hear from you! Help prevent future babies from becoming infected!
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There are three types of GBS disease (prenatal-onset, early-onset, and late-onset) but prenatal-onset is often overlooked or not recognized, which minimizes the potential of GBS to cause thousands of babies to be miscarried, stillborn, or born already sick each year due to being infected by GBS in the womb.
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Registration, both virtual and in-person is now open for the ISSAD Global Conference on Group B Strep. ISSAD2023 will bring together global stakeholders to accelerate the process to improve GBS maternal & newborn survival & prevent stillbirths. Visit issad.org for more info!
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The International Wave of Light invites baby loss families, friends, loved ones and supporting organizations from around the world to join in honor and remembrance of loved and longed for babies on October 15 at 7:00 pm in all time zones, illuminating the night in love and light.
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As a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization, we rely on your donations to enable us to achieve our mission of promoting awareness and prevention of group B strep disease in babies worldwide!
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Recent news and articles:
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7th Annual Reagan’s Ride – Special thanks to Amanda and Brandon Caldwell and the many people who helped them raise GBS awareness and over $4600 for GBSI at the 7th Annual Reagan’s Ride on August 26th, bringing the total raised by Reagan’s Rides to over $30,000 for the past 7 years!
Over 100 people and 60 bikes came out to support the cause this year in honor of Reagan Caldwell, GBS meningitis survivor. Thank you to Down Range for doing such an incredible job with this event year after year as well as to Timeless Tavern, Toby’s Tents, and Kyle Cetnar for his donation of a bounce house, and for their ongoing support of this event. Special recognition and thanks to the Grupp Family for their very generous donation! |
- Meeting report: Towards better risk stratification, prevention and therapy of invasive GBS disease, ESPID research meeting May 2022
- Population genetics of group B Streptococcus from maternal carriage in an ethnically diverse community in London
- Immune responses against group B Streptococcus monovalent and pentavalent capsular polysaccharide tetanus toxoid conjugate vaccines in Balb/c mice
- Potential for maternally administered vaccine for infant Group B Streptococcus with an accompanying editorial by Dr. Carol Baker
- Group B Streptococcus drives major transcriptomic changes in the colonic epithelium
Our past events and GBS news can be viewed in our Event & News Archive.
Please see all we’ve accomplished with your support!
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As a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization, we rely on your donations to enable us to create and distribute GBS awareness materials. Please help save babies and their families from the devastation of GBS disease!