In a recent interview, AnnRitah Namuganga talks about how her decade-long journey working with EDCTP-funded TriageTB and its two predecessor projects, her PhD studies at Makerere University 🇺🇬, and her current 9-month fellowship at Stellenbosch University 🇿🇦.

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We are thrilled to see three of LINQ's projects featured in the #tuberculosis section of EDCTP's Annual Report 2021, TriageTB, TB-CAPT and StatinTB.

Thank you EDCTP, for your support and for spotlighting the important work of these consortia. 🙌

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A big THANK YOU to TriageTB's funder EDCTP for your constant support and for featuring our work in the EDCTP Annual Report 2021. 🙏

Check out page 24 in the PDF for an overview of the TriageTB study: bit.ly/3R5jkd2

🎙️Tune in to Washington Post Live today at 18:30 CET

FrancesSteadSellers will interview our Executive Director Michael Makanga on improving #diversity in clinical trials
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Science communication is a critical skill for young researchers.

This spring, EDCTP-funded TriageTB hosted 2 student presentation sessions – with NIH-funded ENDxTB – where Masters and PhD students involved in the two initiatives presented their work.

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This #WorldTBDay , our consortium partner MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM publish messages from their TB team. First out, TriageTB's Study Lead in the Gambia, Prof Jayne Sutherland. ⤵️

Despite being preventable and curable, #TB remains one of the world’s most widespread infectious diseases, second only to #COVID19 .

Increased action, innovation, and investment to bring TB diagnostics to all those who need them is crucial to #EndTB .

#WorldTBDay

Today marks #WorldTBDay ! Better diagnostics are needed to #EndTB . That’s why we in TriageTB aim to field-validate a rapid point-of-care test for active TB: triagetb.com

@MakerereU LINQ management GmbH London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine LUMC Leiden FIND Stellenbosch University MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM

#WorldTBDay Better diagnostics are needed to stem the tide of TB. That’s why we in TriageTB aim to field-validate a rapid point-of-care test for active TB. #EndTB

@MakerereU LINQ management GmbH London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine LUMC Leiden
FIND Stellenbosch University MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics

🌟🌟Opening for 2 early- #postdoctoral fellows from #WestAfrica - application deadline now 15 March 2022🌟🌟
Opportunity for #CareerDevelopment & #mentorship within a regional #nodeofexcellence . Research on #ChildhoodTB & #MDRTB with regional travels! LSHTM TB Centre MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM

#Tuberculosis patients in #India continue to face stigma and discrimination on a daily basis.

'Hamari Awaaz', meaning 'our voice' in Hindi, is a photo book attempting to express the stigma multidrug-resistant TB patients suffer.

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#ZeroDiscriminationDay

'Like COVID, TB is a pandemic and must be treated as an emergency' by @rchaiss for The Conversation Africa: theconversation.com/like-covid-tb-…. The piece is based on an Editorial published in The Union's IJTLD by Prof Chaisson, Mike Frick and Pramay Nahid. Johns Hopkins University Treatment Action Group (TAG) UCSF Global Health

'WHO along with its technical partners UNAIDS, #StopTB & RBM Partnership, look forward to a continued partnership. We urge all donors to support The Global Fund replenishment to realize our shared vision of a healthier, safer & fairer world ~ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus World Health Organization (WHO) #FightForWhatCounts

Meet Awa Gindeh, Awagindeh, a Junior Researcher at MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM and a mentee in TriageTB’s mentorship scheme, funded by EDCTP.

In this new article, Awa shares her thoughts on how capacity building can help further young researchers' careers: triagetb.com/news/interview…

Tomorrow! Decolonising Global Health Workshop led by LSHTM TB Centre Open to all & free
Toyin Togun, PhD FFPH Finn McQuaid Rashida Abbas Ferrand Chido Dziva Chikwari Prof Mishal S Khan @AfrResExFund Prof Tumani Corrah KBE
Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Moses Bockarie

lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/eve…
#EquitableLeadership #Decolonise

📢NOW OPEN: Applications for Stop TB Partnership Challenge Facility for Civil Society Round 11!
USD 9 million for civil society & communities from
TB High Burden Countries to strengthen partnerships, and work towards addressing social justice within the TB Response👉stoptb.org/news/usd-9-mil…

✅EDCTP has become a member of Europe PMC (PubMed Central)

This membership helps EDCTP-funded researchers to make their 📖publications openly accessible as soon as possible
#OpenAccess

Europe PMC Sida Horizon Europe🇪🇺
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The Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking is taking shape and is looking for EXPERTS.

Want to serve on their Scientific Committee to advise on scientific priorities and help the Joint Undertaking achieve its objectives?

🗓️Apply before Feb 15

New Tuberculosis video lights up Times Square to raise awareness of global plight of TB and critical need for funding youtu.be/2pIqQ43tDoY
#EndTB #InvestToEndTB

📢It's Official! We are happy to announce the theme for 2022 #WorldTBDay : “ #InvestToEndTB . Save Lives.”

The low levels of funding for the TB response year after year cannot continue nor be accepted anymore. Here's what you have to do👉bit.ly/WorldTBDayTheme

#EndTB