WHO to convene Guideline Development Group (GDG) meeting on #tuberculosis and undernutrition createsend.com/t/d-DDC6FBFD8C…

Congratulations to the 33 graduates of #EMPOWA programme at UZ 🎉

Their achievements in designing and implementing impactful 'change projects' for adolescent wellbeing were worth celebrating.

#EmpoweringProfessionals
#AdolescentWellbeing

Today! Please join us on line LSHTM TB Centre Seminar with Prof Jayne Sutherland
⏰ 12.45 BST Free & open to all
MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM Toyin Togun, PhD FFPH Dr Sedona Sweeney

Exciting beginning of the EDCTP funded Stool4TB annual meeting in #Maputo , hosted by CISM Manhiça

ISGlobal Global TB Program
Makerere University Alex Kay AIGHD
SRL Borstel MTBI Anna Mandalakas Lucia Carratalà Castro Joanna Ehrlich Sabine Hermans Anca Vasiliu Willy ssengooba

The abstract submission for the 1st Conference on Innovations in Tuberculosis 2024 in Kampala, Uganda, has been extended to 26 April 2024. You can access the abstract portal for this conference via this link: virology.eventsair.com/conference-on-…
#TBAfricaWS #Uganda #tuberculosis #Research

Super proud of our team for raising the BRTI flag high. This was one of many fun events from our partnership with @UZ-Centre for Postgraduate Studies.

A key component of Decolonising Global Health is building equitable partnerships.

On Wednesday MARCH Centre, LSHTM will be hosting a seminar to share lessons from a Teaching Partnership between London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine & University of Ghana for our online MSc.

Details to join below👇
lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/eve…

What a great initiative - I wished I could have been there. Inspired by UZ initiative I did my own little sport day… in the alps. Thank you UofZimbabwe postgraduate centre for inviting THRU_ZIM Biomedical Research and Training Institute

Congratulations Tafadzwa Madanhire for yet another award! Such an impressive body of work.

Fancy a career in #AcademicMedicine ? No better place to do it than University of Bristol, leading the way in #AcademicGeriatrics with Ageing and Movement Research Group Bristol Emily Henderson and Global Health/Aging Research Unit Celia Gregson 🔥💪🏻

Today at the Global Health Day Universität München, PD Dr. Günter Fröschl, Head of our Teaching and Training Unit, presented on 15 Years of International Health Education at LMU Munich and the activities of Center for International Health LMU
LMU Klinikum München
#GlobalHealthDay

Many many congratulations Tafadzwa Madanhire !!!

World Health Organization (WHO) :6-7 million people are worldwide infected with #Chagas . One third of the chronically ill patients develop cardiac alterations. The parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, is transmitted by the faces of the Triatomine bug to the human, either via the skin or via food. #infectnet

fungai kavenga ntpzim OPHID Hevoi FM 100.2 98.4 FM Midlands Stop TB Partnership Zimbabwe Jointed Hands Welfare Organisation Zimbabwe Health Interventions Biomedical Research and Training Institute 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 Closing case detection gap will also be addressed through strengthening the hybrid contact investigation approach & #TPT activities.
As a matter of priority, there is a deliberate focus on expanding geographical coverage of digital x-ray machines
#YesWeCanEndTB #MyHealthMyRight

Dr Fungai Kavenga fungai kavenga says there is a deliberate focus by the National TB Programme, to improve #TB case finding & treatment.

This will be done through implementation of Intensified Case Finding & #StampStrategy in health facilities and ⏬
#YesWeCanEndTB #MyHealthMyRight

.World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Report of 2023 reports that in 2022, Zimbabwe missed 11 778 TB cases.

fungai kavenga of National TB Control Programme interprets this as a 'high case detection gap' notably among high-risk groups including healthcare workers, prisoners and elderly
#MyHealthMyRight

Had been such a pleasure working with you! Hope this was not my last time to collaborate with Zvitambo

✨Important Announcement: #UnionConf2024 Submission Deadline Extension✨

We are extending the submission deadline for abstracts, symposia sessions as well as post-graduate courses & workshops by 3 days to 📅11 April.
📌Details: tinyurl.com/4zrxv4v9
We wish you all the best🙌

TB Preventive Therapy (TPT) is crucial for high-risk groups - contacts, artisanal miners, PLHIV. It is anti-TB medication to prevent TB disease.
For the period 2018-2022, fungai kavenga highlights that Zimbabwe recorded a 242% success in initiating PLHIV on TPT.
#YesWeCanEndTB #UNHLM

A warm welcome from Fabiola Holetz Fabiola Holetz Fiocruz in English, Alicia Ponte Sucre @sophiaminerva, Rosa Galvez Rosa Isela Gálvez and Susanne Kramer @ZEB_UniWUE. Chagas Disease is a massive health problem in rural areas of South America with high poverty. #infectnet