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📣 #PhD thesis now live in Research Online!

Heterogeneity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis immunoreactivity in urban Malawi: revisiting surveillance needs for tuberculosis elimination/ Rickman, H M

doi.org/10.17037/PUB...

#tuberculosis #Malawi

🗞️ Recent study with @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social modelled the potential impact of funding cuts to TB #PublicHealth initiatives from international donors

Already implemented USAID cuts could cost $7.5 billion (USD) for healthcare systems & people living with TB

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

@tb-lshtm.bsky.social amazing #StudentAmbassadors 2025-26 highlight why everyone interested in TB should join us for these two amazing events marking #WTBD2026
PS: they are both free and open to all!
@ucltb.bsky.social @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social @mrcctu.bsky.social @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social

World TB Day Symposium 2026: 2 weeks to go

Join us in London or online on 24 March for the annual UCL/LSHTM symposium

Topics include:
• Beyond the lungs
• Global trends & health systems
• The potential for AI

Details and registration: www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/events/wo...

@tb-lshtm.bsky.social

Do join us - a week today! Hybrid, Free and open to all
📆 10 Feb
⏰ 12.45 GMT

Beyond medicine: Social protection and the fight against tuberculosis in Brazil This seminar will present evidence on how conditional cash transfer programmes, such as Bolsa Família, influence tuberculosis incidence and mortality. It will explore how these effects vary by race

Beyond medicine: Social protection and the fight against tuberculosis in Brazil www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Tomorrow! Eight amazing presentations, free and open to all.
Not to be missed.

Excerpts from Copenhagen: The UNION World Conference on Lung Health 2025 Each year, many LSHTM TB researchers participate in the UNION World Conference on Lung Health, the world's largest conference on TB and lung health. This year, the conference takes place in

Join us 📆 9 Dec ⏰ 12.45 @tb-lshtm.bsky.social seminar
Free & Open to all
@kchorton.bsky.social @richardwhite321.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @dopapus.bsky.social @laragosce.bsky.social @danieljgrint.bsky.social

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Excerpts from Copenhagen: The UNION World Conference on Lung Health 2025 Each year, many LSHTM TB researchers participate in the UNION World Conference on Lung Health, the world's largest conference on TB and lung health. This year, the conference takes place in

Join us 📆 9 Dec ⏰ 12.45 @tb-lshtm.bsky.social seminar
Free & Open to all
@kchorton.bsky.social @richardwhite321.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @dopapus.bsky.social @laragosce.bsky.social @danieljgrint.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/2s4y3jcd

Climate change and tuberculosis: an analytical framework Climate change is likely to exacerbate a range of determinants that drive tuberculosis, the world's leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. However, tuberculosis is often neglected in w...

Climate change and tuberculosis: an analytical framework - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New TB Centre Theme Areas announced | LSHTM New TB Centre Theme Areas announced | LSHTM

New TB Centre Theme Areas announced www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

Tomorrow! Free and open to all. Online, no registration required.

DR-TB in pregnancy: challenges and risks to the mother-infant pair | LSHTM Until recently, pregnant women have been excluded from clinical trials of DR-TB drugs. For 12 years, the South African Medical Research Council have been running a cohort of pregnant women with DR-TB

A week today, 📅 Tues 14 Oct 2025 ⏰ 12:45 - 13:45 BST
@tb-lshtm.bsky.social Seminar fully online, free and open to all:
Dr Marian Loveday, South African Medical Research Council:
"DR-TB in pregnancy: challenges and risks to the mother-infant pair"
tinyurl.com/5ewnv6at

A great team project with @kchorton.bsky.social (on Bluesky) and colleagues not on Bluesky from @uofgshw.bsky.social, @tb-lshtm.bsky.social and @hsph.harvard.edu

Men are more than twice as likely as women to have prevalent #TB.

We did updated meta-analysis including over 4million people in 99 surveys.

Despite increasing focus on gender equitable TB responses, this gap has widened since we last assessed these data over a decade ago.

From castration to TB: an immunological odyssey with Professor Jayne Sutherland Professor Jayne Sutherland’s inaugural lecture will explore her portfolio of research in immunology, starting from her time as a PhD student in Australia using castration to regenerate the aging

Do join us for @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social

Inaugural lecture
'From castration to TB: an immunological odyssey with Professor Jayne Sutherland'
Hybrid, free & open to all, no registration required
📆25 Sept
⏰ 17.15 BST

tinyurl.com/3w2hbskd

A deadly equation: The global toll of US TB funding cuts The recent withdrawal of U.S. financial support threatens essential TB service delivery, including diagnostics, treatment, TB-HIV co-infection interventions and research initiatives critical to eradic...

Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

We have extended the closing date! Please send in nominations by the revised date of 24 September 2025.

Gaps in TB-related knowledge and practices: An assessment of health care seeking behavior among adults with HIV and caregivers of paediatric patients with presumptive TB symptoms in Manhiça district, ... Although tuberculosis is a preventable and treatable disease, its management has been challenging for tuberculosis control and prevention programs in low- and middle- income countries such as Mozambiq...

Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

DR-TB in pregnancy: challenges and risks to the mother-infant pair | LSHTM Until recently, pregnant women have been excluded from clinical trials of DR-TB drugs. For 12 years, the South African Medical Research Council have been running a cohort of pregnant women with DR-TB

Date for your diary: 14 October 12.45 BST, Dr Marian Loveday presents "DR-TB in pregnancy: challenges and risks to the mother-infant pair" Free & open to all.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

A clinical practice guideline for tuberculous meningitis Tuberculous meningitis is the most severe form of tuberculosis, causing death or disability in around half of those affected. There are no up-to-date international guidelines defining its optimal mana...

A clinical practice guideline for tuberculous meningitis - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The social determinants of tuberculosis: a case-control study characterising pathways to equitable intervention in Peru - Infectious Diseases of Poverty Background Despite being key components of global tuberculosis policy, poverty reduction and social protection interventions have been inconsistently implemented. We aimed to characterise how poverty ...

The global TB epidemic is driven by social determinants. In this case-control study in Peru, we characterised the associations between multidimensional household poverty, personal risk factors, and TB. @tb-lshtm.bsky.social idpjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

@theunion.org Preliminary Programme for this year’s Union World Conference on Lung Health is released conf2025.theunion.org
Plus early registration rates available until 18 August.

Prioritizing countries for TB vaccine readiness research using a global stakeholder-centric approach The promise of new tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidates prompts the need for research on vaccine demand and health system readiness to help ensure effective and equitable vaccine deployment. We develo...

Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Stephen Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize 2025 | LSHTM The Stephen Lawn Memorial Fund was established in 2016 through a global partnership between the TB Centre of the London, School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK), the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre in

The Stephen Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize 2025 is currently open for nominations; closing date 10 September

Nominees for this prestigious award will be clinicians and/or researchers from any country who have completed post-graduate training (MPH, PhD, MD or post-doc)
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Temporal complexity in missed doses of rifampicin-sensitive anti-tuberculosis treatment: a prospective cohort study in Tanzania Background Non-adherence to anti-tuberculosis (TB) regimens is not simplistic; rather, doses are missed in complex patterns. In a cohort of individuals being treated for rifampicin-sensitive pulmonary...

Temporal complexity in missed doses of rifampicin-sensitive anti-tuberculosis treatment: a prospective cohort study in Tanzania bmjopenrespres.bmj.com/content/12/1...

Assessment of comorbidities, risk factors, and post tuberculosis lung disease in National Tuberculosis Guidelines: A scoping review Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health issue across the world and national TB guidelines are an important resource for diagnosis and treatment. This scoping review aimed to analyze how countr...

Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

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...

The potential impact of reductions in international donor funding on tuberculosis in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study - The Lancet Global Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

TB and multi morbidity? The need for integrated care in the current financial This seminar focuses on Pakistan where TB often coexists with diabetes, HIV, and malnutrition. Fragmented health services plus limited funding hinder effective care. Integrated, patient centered

If you missed or want to watch again, the recording is now available!
Dr Razia Fatima:
"TB and multi morbidity? The need for integrated care in the current financial landscape"
tinyurl.com/43kwbexp

Today! Online, free and open to all. Do join us for the last @tb-lshtm.bsky.social of the academic year.