Hello Dan, it's Joe here, I hope you're keeping well.

Who remembers getting the BCG jab?

Explore the past, present & future of TB in our NEW exhibition, Tackling TB: Dundee Scientists Fighting the Killer Cough, produced with the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives research at University of Dundee. On show from 7th Oct 2023 - 1st Apr 2024

Great work by Drug Discovery Unit on TB drug development. Nice exhibition at Verdant Works Museum. And a starring role for Otaalo Brian Okou from Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University. Also you David Connell!

'When people are poor, disadvantaged, and have a stigmatized disease, giving them access to medication is not enough. Drugs alone cannot stop tuberculosis,' writes Abdullahi Tsanni in today's First Opinion. trib.al/X2uzXaY

For vast parts of North America, Asia, Africa & Europe – it is a cruel summer.

For the entire planet, it is a disaster.

We can still stop the worst. Accelerating temperatures demand accelerated #ClimateAction .

Conradie Elias - MDR-TB has gone from 23 pills a day to 23 pills a week.

More capacity development, SimpliciTB Community Engagement best practice training sucessfully delivered by Christine Laidson to our partner site in Uganda 👏 Makerere University NIMR Mwanza Centre Infection St Andrews TB Alliance EDCTP Berlin School of Public Engagement & Open Science School of Medicine Wilber Sabiiti #EndTB

Stephen Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize 2023 is open for applications till 17th July! LSHTM TB Centre
Please RT + nominate! richard horton Stop TB Partnership
TB Alliance The Union Madhu Pai, MD, PhD Linda-Gail Bekker Soumya Swaminathan Toyin Togun, PhD FFPH
Finn McQuaid Prof Joy Lawn
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For the first time in 14 months since #cholera outbreak was declared in #Malawi , the country has recorded zero cholera case and death😊.

We are facing extreme challenges in Sudan, with difficulties in bringing in staff and supplies and our premises being looted.

The parties of the conflict must ensure humanitarian access, to allow us to assist the Sudanese people

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Childbirth Amid War in #Sudan : 29,000 pregnant women in urgent need of #humanitarian assistance are expected to give #birth in the next month. At least 4,300 are believed to be at risk of death. #SRHR
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24th May: Dundee United FC turn 114 years old and Bob Dylan turns 82 years old.

Off to #tannadice in a #rollingthunder t-shirt.

Will we get relegated on our birthday…..?

Should I add #unitedinpursuit ?

Following our recent meeting with doctors from Sudan, I'm pleased that RCPEdin have taken this initiative.

Well done Eleanor ! Good to see you taking your PhD work on the road! EdinClinTox Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers)

Congrats Tobi Broger on new paper in The Lancet Global Health 🌟In case we didn’t have enough yet - even more evidence to support using both AlereLAM and Sputum Xpert for TB diagnosis in HIV inpatients and outpatients thelancet.com/journals/langl…

Today, #Malawi has launched a nationwide integrated vaccine campaign to deliver measles-rubella (MR) vaccines, #typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV), #polio vaccine and Vitamin A supplement targeting more than 9 million children of up to 15 years of age.
#VaccineWorks

People with baseline high plama HIV-1 RNA and low CD4 counts have an increased risk of RV, LLV and virol failure with every ART, also when starting INSTI and specifically DTG. These are lifelong determinants of non virol suppression #RESPOND .

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The Malawi typhoid campaign starts today! Over the weekend the Chikwawa District EPI team waded the vaccine where it needed to get, and slept the night with the supplies & vehicle to keep it all safe. #Vaccine heroes doesn't even begin to describe them. Respect! Take on Typhoid

Elsevier is losing editors

Album of the week for me, is a throwback based on perusal of the Grateful Dead back catalogue inspired from Bob Dylan's recent live covers of their material. #reckoning , 1981. Loving it.