Each day of funding cuts means 11,000 people with TB may not complete their treatment. Stopping TB programs isn't just bad policy – it’s a public health catastrophe. Countless lives are at stake! #FundTBNow #FundingCutsCostLives
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🚨”Amita Gupta has spent more than a decade planning and running a US$70-million trial to study a new #tuberculosis drug, enrolling nearly 6,000 participants across 13 countries. It might all have been for nothing. Gupta’s trial has been ensnared by… [new] NIH policy… that bans ‘foreign subawards’”⤵️
Early data from @publichealthscot.bsky.social show that RSV vaccination (Pfizer ABRYSVO) in older adults aged 75-79 years was associated with 62% ⬇️ (95%CI 35-80%) in #RSV hospitalisation. 🦠🏥💉🏴👏
Vaccination commenced mid August 2024 & uptake was 68.6% by end of Nov 2024.
Brilliant presentation by Verena Faehling & chairing by Liz Corbett - thanks so much all who joined for a great discussion 👏 eepurl.com/hO4D79 to join mailing list for future sessions.
First TB Journal Club of 2025 meets *this Thursday* 20th at 4pm UK time 🕓
Liz Corbett & Verena Faehling @lshtm.bsky.social will be discussing shorturl.at/AGD8l Duong &al 2024 meta-analysis of VQUIN & TB-CHAMP RCTs of levofloxacin for #MDRTB contacts.
Hope to see you there!
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**TODAY** 4pm UK time.
@jaseddon.bsky.social & Dr Amedine Duret taking us through the drivers of adolescent TB 👫
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... by Silvia Chiang, @petedodd24.bsky.social &al
Hope to see you there!
eepurl.com/hO4D79 to join mailing list ✉️
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shorturl.at
Data from randomized trials evaluating the effectiveness of tuberculosis (TB) preventive
treatment for contacts of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB are lacking. Two recently published
randomized trials...
During adolescence, tuberculosis incidence rises, with a greater increase in males compared with females. Tuberculosis notifications and estimates infrequently disaggregate adolescent age groups. More...
Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.
Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
Hannah Rickman
Kicking off #TB #JournalClub 2025 with great discussion of shorturl.at/AGD8l Duong &al 2024 meta-analysis of VQUIN & TB-CHAMP RCTs. In our closing poll, 54% of audience members would take levo TPT if their household contact had quinolone-sensitive #DRTB - the rest chose another regimen/no TPT #tbsky
A paper in Nature Medicine reports that participation in Brazil’s Bolsa Familia Program, one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs in the world, was associated with large reductions in tuberculosis incidence and mortality among various groups. #Medsky 🧪
NEW STUDY! 📣
A large global study found men are more likely to be exposed to TB than women.
The reason? Likely social behaviours:
• More time in crowded indoor spaces
• Delays in seeking care
READ MORE ⤵️
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@petermacp.bsky.social @hannahrickman.bsky.social
Participation in Brazil’s Bolsa Familia Program, one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs in the world, was associated with large reductions in tuberculosis incidence and mortality among Indigenous people, individuals of Black and Pardo ethnicity and those living in extreme poverty.
NIH funding will abruptly cease for dozens, if not hundreds, of ongoing overseas trials of drugs and treatments. Its policy change puts thousands of trial participants in limbo.
https://go.nature.com/3Z8xNM1
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US agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds.
