⚡️💊🇮🇳 🎉Congratulations to dnpplus and TB Activist for winning the #patent opposition filed in #India on a Johnson & Johnson 's patent application that would establish a #monopoly for pediatric #bedaquiline, a crucial medicine for drug-resistant #TB #tuberculosis

I am looking forward to working with Ministry of Health and ICMR to accelerate decline in #TB cases & deaths in India. We have a long way to go to eliminate it as a public health problem & will need to bring the best science to drive policy & practice. World Health Organization (WHO) TB Harega Desh Jeetega Stop TB Partnership

What does it mean to #LeaveNoOneBehind? For Subrat Mohanty, it means a future without tuberculosis for families, communities and society. REACH | GlobalFundAdvocates

Happy to share my point of views in the Media Round Table on Non Communicable Diseases ( NCDs): Bringing Science and Media Together, held at Hotel Swosti Premium, Bhubaneswar on 16th July, 2024, organised by REACH. Thank you so much REACH for this invitation.

And... we are LIVE! 〽️Still time to join us - tbppm.org/networks/event… 〽️you can also join our live-streaming on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=KPkb8U… 〽️or read along in this Thread 🧵 1/

Jeremiah Chikovore World Health Organization (WHO) Joseph Daniels Social Science & Health Innovation for TB REACH Dorothy Adongo Dorothy Dorothy Adongo highlights experiences from Kenya 🇰🇪 as survivor of #TB and now leading caregiving to people with TB. She shares about social food baskets, screening and diagnostic tools - support to children... Very concrete practical strategies with great results 👏 3/

Sumona Datta presents about #EndTB caregiving highlighting the quality of life survey within a group of #EndTB caregivers in Peru. She highlighting complexities in TB, emphasizing financials constraints. 4/

Joseph Daniels Joseph Daniels illustrates the variety of caregivers and importance of personal perspectives. Men and women care for people with TB, but care differently. Q: how to best care for caregivers? 5/

Ramya Ananthakrishnan provides practical examples from REACH in India where TB Nanbans (Friends of TB) provide support, as well as TB champions who provide peer support - having gone through their own #EndTB journey, now giving them a respected role in the community. 7/

TBPPM Learning Network REACH Treatment experience from someone who has completed and healed, is a great motivator for those who are receiving TB care. It is a form of community based case management that is personalized through a shared challenge. The results are great 👍

The national dissemination meeting for Unite to ACT took place in #India. From 2021 to 2024, this initiative provided person-centred care and psychosocial support to #TB patients, led by trained TB survivors. With REACH, World Vision India, MAMTA Health Institute for Mother & Child the project spanned 82 districts!

🌟 We're thrilled to release a new film highlighting the impact of our Unite to ACT project implemented in 11 states. 📽️ Watch to learn how TB-affected communities are leading the fight to #endTB in India. 👉 youtu.be/0wgTJzfnhVA The Global Fund FIND

An example of how ongoing initiatives can collaborate #TNKET and #ALLIES team attended TB Mukt Bharat -Tamil Nadu partners meeting in 2022. Realizing the potential for TB Champions to support ongoing differentiated TB care, we implemented a six month pilot in 2023 ghspjournal.org/content/early/…

India is getting ready to roll out BPaL regimen for all M/XDRTB patients - training to begin this month. This should improve treatment outcomes & help thousands of patients. Scaling up NAAT coverage will be an essential element of the strategy World Health Organization (WHO) Stop TB Partnership TB Harega Desh Jeetega Ministry of Health

We live in a profoundly unequal world As Max Roser put it eloquently: “Where you live isn’t just more important than all your other characteristics, it’s more important than everything else put together” ourworldindata.org/global-inequal…

With the mpox outbreaks, it is time to remind the media to ensure respect and dignity in photos, cartoons and captions What Annalisa Merelli & I wrote in 2022 is still relevant! qz.com/10-best-practi…

In an interview with R. Prasad, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, the Principal Adviser at the Health Ministry for the NTEP, talks about the various challenges in detecting subclinical TB cases and ensuring that such people begin and complete the treatment. thehindu.com/sci-tech/healt…

As Atul Gawande points out, TB treatment has been like chemotherapy: long, complex, and costly. New advances can change that, but we need global will to make it happen. USAID India 👉Read here: nytimes.com/2024/08/16/opi…

Colleagues in India, kindly consider nominating a person or organization for the 2025 Dr KV Desikan Memorial Award! leprasociety.in/desikan-memori…