
ERASE-TB
@erasetb
ERASE-TB study seeks to evaluate new diagnostic tests for detecting tuberculosis (TB) to steer its prevention in Zimbabwe, Tanzania & Mozambique.
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https://www.erase-tb.co.uk/ 01-12-2020 12:10:45
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Males bear the brunt of #TB says Dr Kavenga at the Stop TB Partnership Zimbabwe workshop. Males are exposed more to TB because of the economic activities. ERASE-TB king MJ 🇿🇼🤴🤴🤴 Stop TB Partnership Jointed Hands Welfare Organisation Blessed And Loved Ministry of HealthZW TBpeople LSHTM TB Centre CNS






It’s out!! Finally…. 😮💨 Adult TB prevalence survey with child MTB infection survey (using QFT) in Karachi 🇵🇰 It’s do-able - so let’s do it!! (📣 all funders) We really do need to understand MTB transmission in different contexts better to ✂️the 🔁 url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/aYhCCX5WOI0o…

Amazing teamwork & special 🤲🏼 to the communities who participated PLOS Global Public Health International Statistics and Epidemiology Group IRD Global Rashida Abbas Ferrand Uzma Khan @KatharinaKranz4 This pesky mycobacterium is outwitting us all! We need more concurrent infection surveys to understand TB epi (à Hannah Rickman @petermacp)

Excited to be talking about our work at the Health Working Group meeting G20 South Africa today on “ending TB in the context of climate change". Link to join: …obaltuberculosisprogramme.cmail19.com/t/d-l-ekrdiit-… London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine LSHTM TB Centre CMMID LSHTM TB Modelling Group TB MAC Rebecca Clark Rein Houben Richard White

A week today! Join LSHTM TB Centre Seminar in person or online Free & open to all Chair: Palwasha Yousafzai Khan tinyurl.com/24azjh6r

THRU ZIM recently presented findings from past and ongoing mental health research with WHO Zimbabwe, Ministry of HealthZW, Friendship Bench, & Pamumvuri. Key focus areas included adolescent mental health, substance use, carer well-being, & mental health in older persons. 1/2



Great to join KNTB research dissemination workshop led by Dr Dingani Moyo & the incredible Baines Occupational Health Services ! Informative presentations & engaging discussions from Mining Association leadership, MoHCC & more 👷🏽⛏️ Looking forward to continuing the conversation to 🛑 #endTB #endsilicosis


Our newly published study reports the impact of race-based & race-neutral global #referenceequations on #spirometry interpretation in healthy #children. Calls for context-specific approaches to assess #LungFunction. Esin Nkereuwem The Union LSHTM TB Centre doi.org/10.5588/ijtldo…





Proud to share our work Global Health EDCTP3 Forum. We developed 2 risk scores to predict M. tuberculosis infection among household contacts in 🇲🇿🇹🇿🇿🇼 — and found models predicting TB progression perform better than infection tools. erase-tb.co.uk/post/advancing…