Ending the year with my review of Auld Lang Syne. Every year, I pick a different video to accompany the podcast. This year, the river keeps rushing by.
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🚨 Newest work out in BMJ_Open

Collaborating with Vishy Pingali Advance Access & Delivery - Durham Team Advance Access & Delivery (AA&D) Salmaan Keshavjee Boston University School of Public Health BU_TIARA Harvard Medical School

We estimate the economic impact of not finding and treating a patient with #tuberculosis in the Indian context.

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'... every time a grant application asks about a project’s sustainability plan, it perpetuates the fiction that those most in need should also be the most self-sufficient, if only they could get their act together.'

Right on Mark Brender
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Great roundup of good news on TB. Thx to Unitaid, Partners In Health, MSF International & IRD Global, partners, volunteers for endTB’s 3 regimens. Thx to trailblazer Soumya Swaminathan for laying TB trial groundwork. Still waiting for fair & transparent diagnostic prices Cepheid, Danaher Corporation. #Timefor5

What a privilege to join Partners In Health at #UNION2023 . Here are just a few of MANY moments when PIHers showed the importance of science & rigor in the fight for equity, dignity, & care for all. #Proud KJ Seung Molly Franke Mohamed Bailor Barrie Maxo Luma Leonid Lecca Lindsay Palazuelos endTB

Proud to share this: My translation of excerpts from the memoir of Kim Ju-song, a North Korean defector and novelist. I’m hoping to eventually get the whole book published in English. #northkorea #literature The Dial Magazine
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It's a wrap for me after meeting brilliant comrades fighting to tackle the deadly but preventable disease. Access to new drugs, diagnostics, vaccine and counselling, and also fighting stigma. The battle is never ending but we are in it together... #UnionConf2023

Molly Franke

Presenting an illustrative example of a target 🎯 trial

Using the ✨ EndTB observational data ✨

Absolutely 💯 smashing 💥 it (as usual)

#CausalInferenceGuru

Standing ovation at the #endTB clinical trial results presentation at #UNIONCONF offering pts with RR/ #MDR - #TB more options, improved accessibility, and the promise of effective, patient-centered care, which is especially relevant as we move towards future shorter regimens.

Standing ovation after presenting the endTB trial results at the Union! We share this with all our partners and amazing colleagues in Pakistan, Peru, India, Lesotho, Georgia, South Africa and Kazakhstan!! 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

Partners In Health IRD Global MSF France Unitaid

Exciting news!! Three non-inferior regimens (one superior) for the treatment of #MDRTB .

carole mitnick sharing the endTB trial results at the Union press conference!

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Finally time for the #endtb clinical trial results session. The Union Conference The next #MSF DR-TB trial. Packed and buzzing room.

Nerdfighteria is taking a deep dive this week looking at how tuberculosis has affected art! Its impacts are super visible, especially during Victorian times, when beauty ideals were shaped by the 'consumptive' look that #TB gave folks (especially women) #PeopleOverProfits 🧵1/5

That RCT where they disconnected people's water in Nairobi was even more unethical than I understood when the original scandal broke

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When Hank called me to say he had cancer, he told me, 'This cancer has a 90% survival rate if you get treatment and under 10% if you don't.' 70% of cancer cases occur in low- and middle-income countries, where even routine cancer care (and pain treatment) is often unavailable...

🌐 Lesotho has one of the highest burdens of tuberculosis globally.

Nthabiseng Mokone a patient with MDR-TB spent 6 months in treatment before reuniting with her family 🏥

Follow through her travels from a PIH-supported facility to her home 👉 bit.ly/47iHkl6

We’re thrilled to be sharing results of this groundbreaking trial, supported by Unitaid, & conducted in partnership among Partners In Health, MSF International, IRD Global & governments & communities in Georgia, India, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Pakistan, Peru, & S. Africa. The Union on 15 & 17 Nov.

Today, on what would have been his 64th birthday, I am missing my friend Paul Farmer. His work helped save millions of lives, and proved what was possible when we center equity and justice in public health. Join Partners In Health's #GlobalDayofAction for a conversation on his incredible life…

Johnson & Johnson won't enforce secondary patents on the TB drug bedaquiline in 134 low- and middle-income countries. This decision paves the way for affordable generic versions, aiming to transform access for patients with drug-resistant TB.

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“Not just shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted, but after the horse has bolted, met a nice other horse, had a bunch of little baby horses with them, and now they’re all back and eating our picnic.”

One of my better extended metaphors I reckon