Well done to my friends The McDonnell Lab and Eve smith !! (I haven’t met Alex Clarke but any lupus researcher I’m sure would be a friend too!)

My friend Rain Man would be too humble to share, but a great read from The New Yorker on the experience of being a “Rare as One” is patient with rheumatic disease, and the great work done NIAMS Nobody Has My Condition But Me newyorker.com/magazine/2023/… via The New Yorker

#TipsForMinFin #Budget2023 Cutting child health services at a time of rising poverty and hunger, is a clear violation of children’s rights and a betrayal of the very central pillar of our Constitution. #protectchildhealth #nobudgetcuts @healthza @treasuryRSA Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng

This is advocacy! Really looking forward to your story @mccormack_aksa #wordday2023

In case you missed it, here is our Carte Blanche segment on funding treatments, including biologics, for PMB conditions youtu.be/TnMQaTSmiSI

Nurses at the Red Cross Hospital came in and slept over Sunday night so that they would be at work caring for children this morning. Night staff sleeping over today to work tonight. Amazing people doing good work. Red Cross Hospital Western Cape Gov #Taxistrike

Here we are in the SLE in Africa session!! #ACR23 Dr. Angela Migowa Kate Webb Dzifa Dey

Instant besties #ACR23 Kate Webb

Using Infographics in Medical Education and Communication with Patients with Mithu Maheswaranathan, MD ! #ACR23

Fascinating paper on pre-covid possible MIS-C with implications for understanding pathogenesis. Congrats Alex Belot and team. Pre–Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2–Negative Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children | NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

and how is National Department of Health planning to protect children's health and health care services in the midst of the current budget cuts???? #nobudgetcuts

We are particularly concerned about the impact of austerity on SA's children and call on @healthZA to uphold their obligations to protect children's services from budget cuts bit.ly/ProtectChildHe… Children's Institute, University of Cape Town @paedSA Child Health Priorities Association

This is very worrying and affecting patients right now. Alarm over hiring freeze at Western Cape’s largest hospitals #MoneywebNews moneyweb.co.za/news/south-afr… via Moneyweb News

It’s starting!!! Having an amazing South Africa paediatric rheumatology day with Laura Lewandowski. Wish you were here Rheum Cat and 🧡NAR of House Bostwick🧡🇧🇸 and Eve smith

🔴 Prudence Sekgodiso!!! 🔴 🙌🏾🙌🏾

The 4th FASTEST MAN ON THE PLANET!!!! Our OLYMPIC 100m hero!!! 9.82 Akani Simbine 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

"The Springboks won at this Stadium... There's no South African that's ever been to three Olympic finals...WE NOT DONE YET, WE COMING BACK IN THE RELAYS!!!" ~Akani Simbine 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦