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Today 15.00 'The Cost of Treating Tuberculosis' the first in a series of 3 webinars focused on topics related to health economics and TB, hosted by ERA4TB, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and COMBINE.
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COMBINE-ERA4TB Webinar on The Cost of Treating Tuberculosis - IMI AMR Accelerator The cost of treating tuberculosis – the role of health economics in TB treatment development Join us for this webinar with health economics experts to examine TB’s global cost burden […]

🌍 🏦 Tomorrow @sedonasweeney.bsky.social will give a webinar with @era4tb.bsky.social & @amr-accelerator.bsky.social on TB’s global cost burden to people and health systems, and how health economics can help direct priorities for developing new TB treatments

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💊 On #WorldTBDay, we wanted to highlight just one example of our Centre’s work on tuberculosis

A recent paper from @sedonasweeney.bsky.social found how the BPal multi-antibiotic regimen was the most cost-effective treatment for rifampicin-resistant #TB

Read more 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

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Closing today… open to US scientists, just saying…

Come join an interdisciplinary team looking #AMR dynamics from multiple angles!

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Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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Access bedaquiline | StopTB Partnership

A bright light in a dark moment: The price of the critical TB drug bedaquiline has now dropped to $90 per adult treatment course for TB, a 54% reduction since just 2023.

This is a huge win for @tbfighters.org and the TB activism community generally. www.stoptb.org/what-we-do/f... (1/2)...

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Photograph of a warehouse in Kinshasa where unboxed tuberculosis medications are going undistributed due to the stop work order by the Trump Administration.

Photograph of a warehouse in Kinshasa where unboxed tuberculosis medications are going undistributed due to the stop work order by the Trump Administration.

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

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The deadline for this is Friday! do get in touch if you have any questions.

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#Tuberculosis: We conducted the first within-trial cost-utility analysis of 6-month BPaL-based regimens (bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid) for rifampin-resistant #TB.

More about our findings below ⬇️ #IDSky #AidSky #MedSky

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Person-centred care for tuberculosis affected households | LSHTM Tuberculosis-affected households have syndemic vulnerability, reflecting a concentration of and interactions between multiple biomedical, psychosocial, and structural determinants of health.

On Tuesday 11 Feb, join us for an amazing symposium, free and open to all. No registration required
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2025-26 UKHSA-LSHTM PhD Scholarship | LSHTM The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is pleased to invite applications for a 3-year full-time PhD studentship, starting in September 2025, held between the Faculty of

PhD opportunity @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social modelling intersection of TB (world #1 infectious killer) & climate change. Do apply to be part of a great group doing impactful work! www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a... @lshtm.bsky.social @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @laragosce.bsky.social

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Elon Musk

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We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. 

Could gone to some great parties.

Did that instead.

X post: Elon Musk @elonmusk We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead.

U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means.

The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy.

First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition

U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means. The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy. First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

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USAID being unlawfully dismantled. DOGE member has closed HQ. New tranche of workers cut off email.

Staff tell me, "It is frightening being inside USAID right now. Our checks and balances failed. Congress has abdicated its responsibilities.”

And Sec. Rubio has abdicated his.

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So grateful to you for helping to get this over the line while I was on maternity leave!

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24-week, all-oral regimens for pulmonary rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in TB-PRACTECAL trial sites: an economic evaluation This trial-based evidence adds to consistent indications from modelling studies that BPaL-based regimens are cost-saving for both the patient and health system. Urgent implementation of BPaL-based reg...

BPaL/M is cost saving based on our in-trial economic evaluation of TB-Practecal, supporting modelling studies. Great collaboration with Dr Sedona Sweeney @lshtm.bsky.social and @msfsci.bsky.social.

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#TBsky #IDsky

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24-week, all-oral regimens for pulmonary rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in TB-PRACTECAL trial sites: an economic evaluation New 6-month rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis treatment regimens containing bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid (BPaL) with or without moxifloxacin…

Amazing timing that this paper has come out just as I return to work from maternity leave! Very proud of the work that went into this, and glad it is finally out.

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Members of GHECO retreat 2025

Members of GHECO retreat 2025

🎉 Bringing you our new Bluesky account all the way from Windsor

While we’re enjoying our retreat, why don’t you follow the new #GHECO account? It's the perfect place to get all the latest health economics news & updates in @lshtm.bsky.social

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