Reinvigorating discussions & team building at special World Health Organization (WHO) Global #TB Programme Retreat to map strategic actions & priorities towards ending #TB, as well as ensuring well-being post-pandemic. Proud of my team & their hard work to #EndTB! #ProudToBeWHO #Inspired #StrongerTogether

World Health Organization (WHO) announces historic changes in treatment of drug-resistant #TB w/ shorter all-oral treatment option in consolidated guidelines that will be of great benefit to people suffering from drug-resistant TB, easing the burden on health systems & saving lives bit.ly/3VZgN7l

Now out ! ANRS Maladies infectieuses émergentes FIND MSF France MSF_TB Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Southern Africa MSF Suisse MSF East Africa Novel FujiLAM assay to detect tuberculosis in HIV-positive ambulatory patients in four African countries: a diagnostic accuracy study thelancet.com/journals/langl…

#WHO TME unit of the Global TB Programme is building a roster of #consultants to provide expertise in #statistics and #mathematical #modelling to contribute to the core work of the unit. Apply here, deadline April 20th. careers.who.int/careersection/…

Are you at #WHA76? Come visit our #EndTB interactive booth at the #UN Palais on level 1 for the latest updates, guidance and #TB apps. Join our World Health Organization (WHO) Round Table on Ending TB today from 13:00 14:15hrs CEST in Room XVIII with a distinguished line-up of high level speakers.

In 2022 more people were diagnosed with #tuberculosis since WHO began its global TB monitoring in 1995. This has started to reverse the damaging impact of the pandemic on the number of people dying from or falling ill with TB. Read the new WHO Global TB report ⬇️

2023 WHO Global #tuberculosis report is now out ! In 2022: ▶️ 10.6 million people fell ill with #TB ▶️ 1.3 million #TB deaths ▶️ 410 000 people developped #MDR/#RR-TB More information: who.int/teams/global-t…

#TB remains a leading infectious disease killer worldwide In the 2023 Global #TB report, we estimated ▶️ Half a million excess deaths from #TB as a result of COVID-19 related disruptions in 2020-2022

Check out our editorial on #TB in #children and #adolescents In 2022: ▶️613 000 children and young adolescents with TB were notified ▶️1.25 million children and young adolescents fell ill with TB ▶️214 000 children and young adolescents died from TB theunion.org/news/global-re…

See you next week at the #UnionConf2023 with some interetesting methodological discussions in #TB #epidemiology and #research ! The Union Conference Symposium SP24 SP37 SP44

Exciting news!! Three non-inferior regimens (one superior) for the treatment of #MDRTB. carole mitnick sharing the endTB trial results at the Union press conference! The Union Conference Partners In Health IRD Global MSF France endTB

Join us tomorrow morning for a great symposium at the #UnionConf2023 (SP24) on new methods to analyze observational MDR/RR-TB treatment cohorts Molly Franke

Mathieu Bastard highlighting multiple imputation & best practices to handle missing data 🕳️ in TB observational studies We’re entering an age of methodological rigour! 🙌🏼 A little bit more complex but needed Molly Franke Uzma Khan carole mitnick Samuel Schumacher @sabine_hermans @hr_stagg

💉Vaccination halves mortality among people infected with Ebola, as shown by this study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases This study conducted by Epicentre provides further evidence of the importance of vaccination against Ebola during the epidemics. thelancet.com/journals/lanXX…

📢The program for Epicentre's Scientific Day is online. Each session will provide an opportunity for in-depth reflection on the impact of the studies conducted by Epicentre and their practical use. Save the date and register now 👇🏾 epicentre.msf.org/en/scientific-…

Today I will be presenting at the Epicentre_MSF scientific day in #Paris about the effectiveness and safety of #bedaquiline and #delamanid containing regimen in children and adolescents with MDR/RR-TB in the endTB observational study.

Our new review! undernutrition x2 risk of TB. Funded by World Health Organization (WHO) for the #WHOTBReport Maria-Inti Metzendorf Annabel Baddeley Kerri Viney @S_Schlesinger_ Mathieu Bastard @mavhunga_farai @IDDocJen and many great colleagues, thank you!

Cochrane podcast on our review: undernutrition x2 risk of TB. 6 min summary! Link: cochrane.org/podcasts/10.10… The Cochrane Library Cochrane Centre for Health & Society Funded by World Health Organization (WHO) for the #WHOTBReport Maria-Inti Metzendorf Annabel Baddeley Kerri Viney @S_Schlesinger_ Mathieu Bastard @mavhunga_farai @IDDocJen

Just left Geneva and a really fascinating WHO Global Task Force on TB Impact Measurement meeting. A lot of clever folk, from all over the world, come together every few years to improve the methods used to estimate global and country TB burden. Crucial, but very much

Join us tomorrow at the #WHO Global #EndTB Symposium at the #UnionConf2024 from 10.30am in Mangupura room. Special session on #TB burden estimates with new recent evidence from #Indonesia and #Uganda.