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If you are close to #Antwerp, join us on 8 October at @itmantwerp.bsky.social with @iddonews.bsky.social colleagues, for an informal exchange on #quality of #medicines in health systems. @who.int @unodet.bsky.social @sciensano.be @belentarrafeta.bsky.social www.itg.be/en/events/qu...

Quality of Medicines at the Heart of Health Systems

This event focuses on how medicine quality can be made a public health priority through research, policy & practice

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The commercial determinants of NCDs: early lessons from IHP ResNet research in Cambodia www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-art... This week's Feat article by Srean Chhim, Nicola Deghaye & Grace Ku. @itmantwerp.bsky.social

The commercial determinants of NCDs: early lessons from IHP ResNet research in Cambodia

Four industries kill on a population scale. The rules that make their products cheap, available and advertised remain the least measured part of the epidemic, certainly in LMICs like Cambodia.

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Our #PharmaceuticalPublicHealth research unit at @itmantwerp.bsky.social has joined the new 5-year programme of #WANETAM, to contribute to strengthening the environment for clinical trials oversight. @globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social

MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM@mrcunitgambia.bsky.social · 3w ago

Proud to launch the 4th #WANETAM, bringing together 2️⃣9️⃣institutions for a new 5️⃣-year programme to strengthen research capacity & health systems. What’s 🆕 ✅#ClinicalTrial Research capacity & ✅#EpidemicPreparedness & more WANETAM4 seeks to tackle #TB, #HIV & #malaria @globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social

⚠️ Vroegtijdige detectie is essentieel om de verspreiding op te volgen en de nodige maatregelen te kunnen nemen. 👀 Denk je er een gezien te hebben? Meld je waarneming via MuggenSurveillance.be of via de app. Elke melding telt! 🤝 @itmantwerp.bsky.social

Delivering sexual reproductive health justice requires a new independent neutral global body where global rights obligations are prioritised #SRHR #AttiyaWaris #JuanPabloBohoslavsky #RachelHammonds @gorikooms.bsky.social #UniversityNairobi #CONICET @itmantwerp.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/394/...

International fiscal architecture for advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights

Delivering sexual and reproductive health justice requires a new independent and neutral global body where global rights obligations are prioritised, write Attiya Waris and colleagues The freefall i...

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Sleeping sickness cases have fallen sharply in CAR. Is the decline real or are cases being missed ? At the national programme’s request, FOCAL is strengthening diagnosis & surveillance at 10 facilities on the southern border. IPB is a partner www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... @itmantwerp.bsky.social

Connecting research, policy, partnerships:Tinashe Zigomo, PhD candidate at University of the Western Cape,reflects on a scholar visit at @itmantwerp.bsky.social, during which he refined his work on access to essential #breast #cancer #medicines. @belentarrafeta.bsky.social www.itg.be/en/health-st...

Interview Tinashe Zigomo

Connecting research, policy & partnerships for better access to cancer medicines

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👋 Meet our new students! This week, we’re welcoming them for orientation, with lunch and an afternoon together in Middelheim Park. In the months ahead, they’ll dive into training as they prepare to work around the world. Say hello! 💬

The strengths that matter in a crisis are built through years of partnership. Belgium, the DRC and ITM continue to build a lasting partnership.🤝 Curious how long term partnerships actually make a difference in a crisis? 🔗 www.itg.be/en/health-st... @belgiummfa.bsky.social

How long-term partnerships make a difference.

Belgium, the DRC and ITM continue to build a lasting partnership.

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Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde @itmantwerp.bsky.social gaat met een nieuw, uitgebreid onderzoek de nieuwe ebolavariant beter in kaart brengen. "Via dashboard willen we hulpverleners direct informeren over onze nieuwe bevindingen om gerichter te werken", zegt professor Laurens Liesenborghs.

Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde onderzoekt nieuwe ebolavariant in Congo: "We hollen de epidemie achterna" | VRT NWS Nieuws

Het Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde (ITG) gaat met een nieuw, uitgebreid onderzoek de nieuwe ebolavariant beter in kaart brengen. De Bundibugyo-variant verspreidt zich razendsnel, maar er is tot ...

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🇨🇩 Are you an artist from DRC? We'd like to invite you to apply for an artist residency, part of ITM's ongoing reflection on our colonial heritage and institutional history, and marking 120 years of ITM. Apply before 20 August. Know an artist who should see this? 👉 www.itg.be/en/health-st...

📣 Job opportunity: Junior Researcher in tuberculosis at @itmantwerp.bsky.social Support the implementation and coordination of two international research consortia, including the Global Health EDCTP3-funded ACT4KIDS-TB project. 📍 Antwerp, Belgium Apply by 13 August: www.itg.be/nl/jobs-en-o...

Scabies is challenging, for patients and healthcare professionals: 🔎 Diagnosis can be difficult 💊 Treatment guidelines are complex 🧼 Hygiene measures are not always clear Read more: www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20... @sciensano.be

Verspreiding van schurft in Vlaanderen stabiliseert na jaren van stijging | VRT NWS Nieuws

Het aantal gevallen van schurft in Vlaanderen lijkt te stabiliseren, na enkele jaren van stijging. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van Sciensano, in samenwerking met het Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde ...

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Imagine testing that comes to you, not the other way around. 🤯🩸 Collect2Know (C2K) makes it easy to collect a blood sample from a finger prick, safe and simple, anywhere. 🏆 C2K just won a Red Dot Design Award, a win for our team, Voxdale, and Health Innovations for All. www.itg.be/en/research/...

NEW: Patient enrolment has begun in the PARTNERS trial in the DRC to identify the first effective treatments for Bundibugyo ebolavirus disease. Led by INRB, @itmantwerp.bsky.social and Oxford’s Pandemic Sciences Institute. Find out more ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4vMa1DN

Our review shows a urgent need to expand #vaccine #access along the migratory cycle to/in #Europe. But protecting #confidentiality is essential for #trust and reducing #legal risks. @verowirtz.bsky.social @salehaljadeeah.bsky.social @itmantwerp.bsky.social #migrants www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/14...

🎓☀️ Blue skies, a choir in full voice and proud smiles everywhere! That was graduation day at ITM yesterday, as our masters students crossed the stage and became the next generation of health leaders. You are now part of our global alumni network. Keep in touch and we always love a visit back! 🥳

“De resultaten van die pilootstudies zijn veelbelovend”, weet entomoloog Wim Van Bortel. “Maar of en hoe dat breder uitgerold kan worden, valt nog af te wachten.” www.demorgen.be/nieuws/googl... @demorgen.be

Google wil miljoenen muggen loslaten in de VS: ‘Europa zou hier beter op grote schaal in investeren’

Met een leger van 32 miljoen steriele mannetjesmuggen wil Google de strijd aanbinden met ziektes zoals dengue en Zika. Waarom doet het techbedrijf dit?

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“Preparedness cannot begin when an outbreak is declared. It must be built and sustained in advance.” 🚨 The Ebola outbreak in the DRC, caused by the Bundibugyo virus, must serve as a wake-up call to the world, says ITM Professor of Virology Kevin Ariën in Nature. Read more: tinyurl.com/3pjfj29n

☀️🔬 Science is most powerful when it's shared and our Open House was proof of that. Almost 3,000 people came to see it up close. 🔍 Visitors explored our research stands, toured our labs and dove into more than a century of ITM history. Thank you! 💛

Vlaamse infectioloog Laurens Liesenborghs en zijn team zijn aangekomen in het epicentrum van de ebola-uitbraak in Oost-Congo. De epidemie zit inmiddels "diepgeworteld in de regio", zegt hij. Samen met zijn collega's probeert hij de verspreiding tegen te gaan door volop aan een medicijn te werken.

Vlaamse arts Laurens Liesenborghs strijdt tegen ebola in Oost-Congo: "Virus zit diepgeworteld in de regio" | VRT NWS Nieuws

Infectioloog Laurens Liesenborghs en zijn team van het Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde in Antwerpen zijn aangekomen in Bunia, het epicentrum van de ebola-uitbraak in het oosten van Congo. De epid...

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Virus Ebola : la difficile voie vers la mise au point d’un vaccin contre la souche Bundibugyo

Virus Ebola : la difficile voie vers la mise au point d’un vaccin contre la souche Bundibugyo

Aucun essai clinique n’est en cours contre la souche à l’origine de la nouvelle épidémie du virus Ebola, en RDC. Les chercheurs sont partagés entre deux options : adapter des produits voisins ou développer en urgence du sur-mesure. Avec peu d’espoir de réussite avant un an.

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[SENSIBILISERING] : Mooie ontmoeting aan @itmantwerp.bsky.social AZV ging in gesprek met studenten publieke gezondheidszorg over de uitdagingen op het terrein, capaciteitsversterking en samenwerking met lokale gezondheidssystemen. Dank voor jullie energie, vragen en engagement 💙

[SENSIBILISATION] : MSV a échangé avec les étudiant·es en santé publique autour des défis du terrain, du renforcement des compétences et de la collaboration avec les systèmes de santé locaux. Merci @itmantwerp.bsky.social pour l’énergie, les questions et l’engagement 💙 #GlobalHealth #healthforall

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Future WHO leadership in a darkening world: Q&A with global health editors

Just before WHA79, IHP editor Kristof Decoster spoke with Jocalyn Clark, international editor of The BMJ, for her new article on the campaign for next Director-General of WHO, which has just kicked of...

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Can a code of professional ethics influence the supply of #substandard and #falsified #medicines? Our work from #Ethiopia suggests that embedding #ethics as an enforceablerather than symbolic component of a systems may help the #response to SF medicines www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Can a code of professional ethics influence the supply of substandard and falsified medicines? Insights from Ethiopia

Substandard and falsified (SF) medicines are serious global health problems. Their high prevalence is a threat to public health in resource-limited settings. It is assumed that professionals will u...

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Chemseks in opmars. Onze seksuoloog Tom Platteau vertelt in 'De wereld van Sofie' op @radio1vrt.bsky.social dat het niet gaat om 2 glaasjes wijn of een joint om in de stemming te komen. @vrtnws.be www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Chemseks in opmars, Gerrit (54): "Vrijen onder invloed van drugs is veel intenser, alle remmen vallen weg" | VRT NWS Nieuws

Chemseks is seks onder invloed van vaak synthetische harddrugs. Het is een fenomeen dat almaar vaker voorkomt, ook in België. Wat zoeken en vinden mensen precies in chemseks dat ze missen in seks zond...

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⏰ Deadline extended. The 66th ITM Colloquium — Health in Motion: Infectious Diseases on the Move — has extended its abstract deadline. Co-organised with AHRI, this year's colloquium explores what happens when pathogens, people and policies are all on the move. 🔗 www.colloq2026.be #CallForAbstracts

🌎 The Hantavirus outbreak has shown how indispensable the @who.int is. ITM Emerging Infectious Disease Researcher Laurens Lienenborghs wrote an opinion piece for @demorgen.be in which he highlights the importance of the WHO during health crises. 🦠 Read the full article (Dutch) lnkd.in/eZCVM5fb