
Derek Sloan
@derekjsloan
Days filled with: infectious diseases • football disappointments • musical obsessions • life lessons from two little girls
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03-01-2014 15:10:10
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Congrats Tobi Broger on new paper in The Lancet Global Health 🌟In case we didn’t have enough yet - even more evidence to support using both AlereLAM and Sputum Xpert for TB diagnosis in HIV inpatients and outpatients thelancet.com/journals/langl…


Well done Eleanor ! Good to see you taking your PhD work on the road! EdinClinTox Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers)

Following our recent meeting with doctors from Sudan, I'm pleased that Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh have taken this initiative.






Stephen Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize 2023 is open for applications till 17th July! LSHTM TB Centre Please RT + nominate! richard horton Stop TB Partnership TB Alliance The Union Madhu Pai, MD, PhD Linda-Gail Bekker Soumya Swaminathan Toyin Togun, PhD FFPH Finn McQuaid Prof Joy Lawn bit.ly/43Et44m


More capacity development, SimpliciTB Community Engagement best practice training sucessfully delivered by Christine Laidson to our partner site in Uganda 👏 Makerere University NIMR Mwanza Centre Infection St Andrews TB Alliance EDCTP Berlin School of Public Engagement & Open Science School of Medicine Wilber Sabiiti #EndTB




"When people are poor, disadvantaged, and have a stigmatized disease, giving them access to medication is not enough. Drugs alone cannot stop tuberculosis," writes Abdullahi Tsanni in today's First Opinion. trib.al/X2uzXaY

Who remembers getting the BCG jab? Explore the past, present & future of TB in our NEW exhibition, Tackling TB: Dundee Scientists Fighting the Killer Cough, produced with the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives research at University of Dundee. On show from 7th Oct 2023 - 1st Apr 2024 pic.x.com/K15Lg53f6s

Great work by Drug Discovery Unit on TB drug development. Nice exhibition at Verdant Works Museum. And a starring role for Otaalo Brian Okou from Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University. Also you David Connell!



In the meantime, we’re pleased to share some impressions of our Joint Symposium with ERA4TB Project yesterday 👇Innovative Health Initiative, IMI AMR ACCELERATOR, EFPIA, DZIF - Deutsches Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, LMU Klinikum München, Derek Sloan, Ulrika Simonsson, INSTITUT PASTEUR #YesWeCanEndTB #SaveLives #PublicPrivatePartnership
