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📢 Calling all sub-Saharan African #epidemiology researchers! Apply for our Meade Collaboration Travel Grants to spend up to three months at a research organisation in the UK. ✈️ 📅 Deadline: 13 November 2024 👉 Find out more: bit.ly/4gmKvgW #ResearchGrants

TB-affected households face multiple health risks beyond TB, like HIV, malnutrition, and NCDs. In our study across 3 African countries, 1 in 2 had a TB risk factor & 1 in 5 experienced multimorbidity. Claire Calderwood journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…

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Claire J. Calderwood and team examine the prevalence of HIV, malnutrition, and non-communicable diseases among households with a member affected by tuberculosis in East and Southern Africa. Claire Calderwood @KatharinaKranz4 @THRU_ZIM LSHTM TB Centre ERASE-TB doi.org/10.1371/journa…

In this correspondence in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine we highlight the challenges of inferring TB preventive therapy effectiveness from observational studies: thelancet.com/journals/lanre… A product of the September TB Journal Club... great forum for discussion James Greenan-Barrett Mahdad Noursadeghi

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

Yesterday, I had a productive meeting with Bertie Squire at LSTM. Local capacity building, research administration and management and mentorship importance in advancing global health research. Medical Research Foundation Instituto Nacional de Saúde – INS LSTM Tom Wingfield

This publication shows External Quality Assurance (EQA) can strengthen CRX interpretation for childhood TB in LMIC. Challenges include CXR transfer and workload. shorturl.at/VoVRf Marcy Olivier CISPOC - INS - DPCM

#PediatricTB continues to pose significant challenges, with 1.25 million children and adolescents falling ill in 2022, and 214,000 deaths. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), only 49% of paediatric cases were diagnosed and notified, with children under 5 experiencing the highest undiagnosed

Our study shows digital CXR at district hospitals is feasible, delivering 99.6% quality images across 6 countries. 🌐 Challenges remain with internet connectivity. Marcy Olivier CISPOC - INS - DPCM onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/P5YZVMDC…

Our study (preprint) validates the PAANTHER Treatment Decision Algorithm to improve TB diagnosis for children living with HIV (CLHIV). High sensitivity (97.4%) and rapid time to treatment show its potential for life-saving impact in TB care for CLHIV. Marcy Olivier Instituto Nacional de Saúde – INS

At #UnionConf2024, we’re bringing together stories, #innovations, and connections to drive #healthequity forward. Here’s what’s on today: 1️⃣ First up, at 12:30 pm in Community Connect, Singaraja: Don'r miss 'Carrying #TB Innovations to New Heights' – a session led by

Coming up: This session will cover molecular diagnostics for pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB, treatment shortening for drug sensitive, drug resistant disease and latent TB, and post-tuberculosis disease. #BTSWinter2024 #Respiratory #Tuberculosis #TB

We are pleased to share the findings from our recent secondary analysis of the RaPaed-TB Study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. In this study, we compared sequential and parallel testing methods for tuberculosis (TB) in children. bit.ly/3Em7jPp

Up to 50% of TB survivors face lasting lung damage—even after cure. Post-TB lung disease is real, underrecognized, and impacts lives. We need prevention, diagnosis & care beyond treatment. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…

For #WorldTBDay, we are highlighting our TB courses with McGill TB Centre. Explore short courses on TB nutrition, diagnostics, research methods, and public-private mix. Learn more and register: mcgill.ca/summerinstitut… #EndTB #GlobalHealth

We’re thrilled to launch the 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 (𝗦𝗢𝗙𝗔𝗥) website–a hub dedicated to strengthening research capacity across Africa Visit sofarafrica.org Biomedical Research and Training Institute Instituto Nacional de Saúde – INS Universität München London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Who needs TB preventive treatment? We looked at data from 1,900+ people living with someone who had TB in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Tanzania. The goal? To build a simple tool to predict who might be infected and needs preventive treatment. dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa… Palwasha Yousafzai Khan

Is “Global” really global? We tested GLI Global spirometry standards in Mozambique, Tanzania & Zimbabwe. In ERJ Open Research doi.org/10.1183/231205…

Kicking off Day 2 of the SimpliciTB & Panacea II close out Meeting in Cape Town! Yesterday reminded us how far we’ve come — from milestones in clinical progress to growing global partnerships. Onward together in the fight against #TB. EDCTP TB Alliance #PanaceaII #EndTB