Determinants of tuberculosis presentation and successful treatment outcome among tuberculosis patients in Geita, Tanzania The Geita Region of Tanzania is known as critical focal point for tuberculosis (TB) control due to its persistently high disease burden and unique socio-economic landscape. Despite this, limited resea...

Dr. Nlula's MPH TB thesis is out. She would be a great PhD student... dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

@itmantwerp.bsky.social welcomes your abstracts for: www.colloq2026.be "Health in Motion: Infectious Diseases on the Move" in Addis. 🇪🇹 due: 19 May 2026.

SSHIFTB World TB Day Webinar 2026 YouTube video by Social Science & Health Innovations for TB

Thanks #SSHIFTB for letting me talk #citizenscience #Air #TB #climate: youtu.be/T30j9eFFkkM?...

Massachusetts Public Health: using legal tools to keep science as the basis for vax recs: www.idsociety.org/news--public...

The March 2026 #SSHIFTB Newsletter is live!

In this edition, we share the latest resources, opportunities, and events in the TB social science world:

🔹 Our upcoming World TB Day Webinar on Zoom (registration required)
🔹 Advice for qualitative researchers in the TB field

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Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award: Optimising interventions for impact - Funding | Wellcome Funding call supporting transdisciplinary teams led from Africa, South Asia or South-East Asia to conduct clinical trials that optimise licensed pharmaceutical interventions for infectious diseases.

Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award: Optimising interventions for impact wellcome.org//research-fu...

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #pulmsky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch 🧪🛟 🫁💊

TB or not TB? That is the question A new study in "Nature Medicine" estimates that 2 million people are incorrectly told they have tuberculosis each year — and clinicians miss diagnosing TB in 1 million people. Why so many misdiagnoses...

Good to be mindful of how much clinically DX TB is too much. Menzies et al.
www.npr.org/2026/02/06/g...

Last chance to submit your abstract for the 3rd Conference on Innovations in Tuberculosis!

Join us in Tanzania and be part of the scientific exchange regarding clinically relevant advances in #Tuberculosis.

🗓 Deadline: 𝟭𝟯 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

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New investment brings TB testing closer to communities GHIT Fund invests USD 1.8 million to support research on the Lung Flute ECO

Tooting our own horn (again)🫁: www.itg.be/en/health-st... #TBsky #TB @itmantwerp.bsky.social @djaganath.bsky.social #EndTB#IDxPost#IDSky

Total Investment of... | GHIT Fund | Global Health Innovative Technology Fund Press Release: Total Investment of... GHIT Fund(Global Health Innovative Technology Fund)

Cool TB awards! Trialing the Lung Flute ECO in 5 new studies! #Tuberculosis/TB #EpiSky @itmantwerp.bsky.social 🫁 www.ghitfund.org/newsroom/pre...

thx! I added this to El's Yuletide Earworms

Large-scale field application of a fingerstick blood test for Mycobacterium leprae infection: Monitoring population-wide effects of case finding and post-exposure prophylaxis on transmission in the Co... Since 2018, the WHO recommends provision of single-dose rifampicin post-exposure prophylaxis (SDR-PEP) to contacts of leprosy patients. In the Post-ExpOsure Prophylaxis for LEprosy (PEOPLE) trial that...

#TBSky -Cool new leprosy test shows how Leprosy PEP and ACF are consequential dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

🔦Collections Spotlight🔦

Did you know that decommissioned Toronto street cars were once used to house Tuberculosis patients? This 1905 image shows the inside a converted street car at the Toronto Free Hosiptal for Consumptives.

#Tuberculosis #histmed #Toronto #MuseumofHealthCare

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity!🚨

Interested in researching how to improve risk prediction for people with #tuberculosis #TB and #multimorbidity?

Joint project between @uofgshw.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and @ki.se 🇸🇪, funded by UK MRC.

Details here⬇️

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

So much fun to learn about Outbreaks & Surveillance yesterday from these All-Stars @itmantwerp.bsky.social #TBSky #MPox #AMR #Arbovirus #airfilterforensics

Colloquium 2025 Registration_online possible Register for the 65th ITM Colloquium.

#TBSky Great 🫁TB talks: @itmantwerp.bsky.social Access! Justice! Genomics! Transmission! Diagnostics! Y'All come: fs10.formsite.com/formulierenI...

Poor glycemic control among people with diabetes mellitus is associated with tuberculosis infection: a cross-sectional study in Nepal - BMC Infectious Diseases Background Diabetes mellitus (DM) raises the risk of contracting Tuberculosis (TB) infection and progressing to TB disease. Screening people with diabetes for TB infection and offering preventive trea...

Shrestha: 4%TB prev in ppl w/DM in Nepal #NCDSky #TBSky doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Prenatal Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter Components and Autism Risk in Childhood This cohort study of births in a Canadian province examines whether higher prenatal exposures to fine particulate matter and its components are associated with risk of autism spectrum disorder.

Air quality & Autism Risk - Preliminary signal url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We are seeking a PhD student💡. 4-yrs 💶 for 🇲🇿 in locally co-designed #airborne infection control, #AMR surveillance in 🇿🇦 🇳🇬 Based in Maputo (FundacaoAurum) #TBSky #EpiSky @fvlscience.bsky.social Lusophone health/ lab w/ roots in 🇲🇿 #PublicHealth #EDCTP3 @itmantwerp.bsky.social Q: emitchell@itg.be

TB is airborne.

*Oportunidade de doutoramento em Ciências da Saúde* #TB #PhD #AMR #IPC projecto Tuberculosis Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (TASP), área de controle de infecções que em Moçambique c/ @fvlscience.bsky.social auruminstitute.org/what-we-do/a... @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @utoronto.ca

Experts warn loss of USAID endangers the fight against deadly TB

www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis... #tbsky #tuberculosis #USAID #TBFighters

Tuberculose matou 71 pessoas na província moçambicana de Nampula em seis meses As autoridades de saúde apontam a falta de financiamento como uma das causas do aumento da doença. Entre 2019 e 2024, do total de 108.242 casos notificados e tratados no país, 10.547 eram crianças.

TB deaths up 5% in 6 months since USAID funds pulled from Napula, Mozambique: #USAID #TBsky #TBFighters #tuberculosis observador.pt/2025/09/24/t...

#TBSky

TB is the #1 killer among infectious diseases. A new study says its toll could mount New research estimates that as many as 2.2 million more people could die of tuberculosis if U.S. cuts to foreign aid become permanent.

TB deaths projected to rise due to aid cuts, State Dept cannot say current funding level.

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Researcher Tuberculosis More than 500 staff members at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) contribute every day to improving the health of millions of people world...

Come join us! Researcher TB (MD/PhD)
Dept of Clinical Sciences www.itg.be/en/jobs-and-... #TBfighters #tbsky #CAD #AMR #DRTB #tuberculosis #IDSky #EndTB

RFK Jr fails to protect us, endangers future generations, & peddles falsehoods. We require competent leadership in this context of emerging & returning pathogens. He must resign or be fired.

Rapid Response: Reinvesting in Racial and Indigenous Health Equity Research The purpose of this call for proposals is to meet the current moment by supporting timely, actionable health equity research that has been interrupted by shifts in federal funding.

The @rwjf.org Rapid Response Research funding is available to applicants who have received federal funding for their health equity research, but have had it partially or fully rescinded due to federal administrative actions. Deadline is 10/1/25. Details in the link:
www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

The potential impact of reductions in international donor funding on tuberculosis in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study We estimate substantial potential impacts on tuberculosis morbidity and mortality due to reductions in international donor funding. Expanded support from domestic and international donors is essential...

Advocacy tool: impact of TB funds cuts: How many TB deaths can we attribute to cuts by each donor govt? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...