World TB Day Symposium 2026: 2 weeks to go Join us in London or online on 24 March for the annual UCL/LSHTM symposium Topics include: • Beyond the lungs • Global trends & health systems • The potential for AI Details and registration: www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/events/wo... @tb-lshtm.bsky.social

World TB Day Symposium 2026: TB in a changing world Join us in‑person / online for annual UCL‑TB/LSHTM WTBD Symposium on Tues 24 March 2026 • Beyond the lungs • Global trends / health systems • The potential for AI …& more www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/events/wo... @tb-lshtm.bsky.social

Watch the video of our recent World TB Day Symposium 2025. Details at www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/events/wo... @tb-lshtm.bsky.social

Did you miss @tb-lshtm.bsky.social & @ucltb.bsky.social Symposium? Or would you like to watch again? Good news: the full recording is now available! tinyurl.com/bdh8fymx @sedonasweeney.bsky.social @kchorton.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social

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Please note more tickets are now available via the link below. On 24 March each year, the world commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Last month we held a webinar on 'TB in the UK'. 500 people turned out to join the discussion. Read some of what we heard in this week's BMJ editorial piece www.bmj.com/content/388/.... #tuberculosis

Tuberculosis in the UK

Multipronged action is needed to reverse rising rates Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s oldest pandemic, accounting for around a billion deaths in the past two centuries.1 In the UK, after more than a...

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Out today: The need to scale up community-wide screening for TB irrespective of symptoms, if we are serious about ending TB. ijidonline.com/article/S120... @mrcctu.bsky.social

Scaling-up symptom-agnostic, community-wide screening towards global tuberculosis elimination: opportunities, challenges and lessons from history

Globally in 2023, 8.2 million people with a new episode of tuberculosis (TB) were diagnosed and notified.[1] This is the highest number of TB notifications for a single year since the World Health Org...

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Today: Online link for World TB Day symposium 9-5 GMT: lshtm.zoom.us/j/92519123639. Programme information at ucl.ac.uk/tb/events/wo...

1 week today until our World TB Day Symposium! Join us in-person (more tickets available) or online.

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Register now to join us for this year's #WTBD symposium! With sessions on post-TB lung disease, the UK's place in national and international policy, and asymptomatic TB, plus a debate on Pan-TB regimens and turbo talks from early career researchers @tb-lshtm.bsky.social & @ucltb.bsky.social!

Video now online for 'TB in the UK' webinar youtube.com/watch?v=h5Lp... #tuberculosis

Excellent work by @msf.ca @msfsci.bsky.social, @who.int, Uzbekistan and Belarusian colleagues on real world evidence for #BPaLM and #BPaLC 6 months treatment for rifampicin-resistant #TB @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social @ucltb.bsky.social

The Effectiveness and Safety of Bedaquiline, Pretomanid, and Linezolid (BPaL)–Based Regimens for Rifampicin-Resistant Tuberculosis in Non-Trial Settings—A Prospective Cohort Study in Belarus and Uzbek...

Treatment for multidrug-resistant/rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (TB) and pre–extensively drug-resistant TB using 24-week all-oral bedaquiline, pretoman

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Person-Centred Care for TB-affected Households symposium - Tomorrow 11th Feb, 1230-1400 GMT - Hybrid, no registration required www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/person-ce...

Join our "Person-Centred Care for TB-affected Households" hybrid symposium www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/person-ce... #tuberculosis - Tues 11 Feb 2025, 1230-1400 GMT - No pre-registration needed

Why is TB incidence in the UK on the rise? Join our free webinar on 'TB in the UK' to hear major stakeholders discuss why this is happening, and how we can best respond. Thurs 6th Feb, 3-5pm www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/tb-uk-web...

"Person-Centred Care for TB-affected Households": hybrid symposium 11 Feb 2025, 1230-1400 GMT no pre-registration www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/person-ce... #tuberculosis

After falling for 10 years, TB incidence in the UK is on the rise. Join our free webinar on 'TB in the UK' to discuss why this is happening, and how we can best respond. Thurs 6th Feb, 3-5pm www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/tb-uk-web...

After falling for 10 years, TB incidence in the UK is on the rise. Join our free webinar on 'TB in the UK' to discuss why this is happening, and how we can best respond. Thurs 6th Feb, 3-5pm www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/tb-uk-web...

In-person London seminar on TB comorbidities by Prof Jonathan Golub next Wed 15th January at 1730 GMT www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/seminar-t... #tuberculosis

In-person London seminar on TB comorbidities by Prof Jonathan Golub next Wed 15th January at 1730 GMT hosted by Prof Lele Rangaka www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/seminar-t... #tuberculosis

Bedaquiline has been a great development in the treatment of drug-resistant TB. But it's future is uncertain due to rising resistance levels. Great review here.... #IDSky #Microsky #Infectiousdiseases #TB #Tuberculosis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bedaquiline: what might the future hold?

Tuberculosis drug development has stagnated for decades, so the recent availability of bedaquiline is welcome. Bedaquiline-containing regimens, now th…

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Thanks for this beautiful 🧵! Wonderful to work with @gpollara.bsky.social @helgardclaassen.bsky.social and @maphemthembu.bsky.social on this. Appreciate the support from @niaidnews.bsky.social @ahri-news.bsky.social and @ucltb.bsky.social. 3rd and final PhD paper for Maphe! 🎉 💫

Gabriele Pollara@gpollara.bsky.social · 2y ago

Really pleased to share collaborative project led by @emilybethwong.bsky.social & 1st author @maphemthembu.bsky.social A careful dissection of dysfunctional immune responses in ART-naive HIV infection. TL:DR bronchoalveolar ≠ blood responses #HIVSky #IDSky #ImmunoSky www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Today at the #UnionConf2024, Trinh Duong discussed safety of and adherence to levofloxacin to prevent multidrug-resistant #tuberculosis in the TB-CHAMP & VQUIN trials. Get the full story behind these #TB trials on our podcast. Listen now👇 https://buff.ly/4euqqTG #MedSky #IDSky @ucltb.bsky.social

TB-CHAMP, VQUIN, and the first effective treatment to prevent multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

In September 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new guidance on preventative treatment for tuberculosis (TB). Thanks to new evidence from two randomised controlled clinical trials, the

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DR-TPT webinar video now available. The edited recording of our webinar event on 'Preventive therapy for drug-resistant tuberculosis' can be seen here: youtube.com/watch?v=iyPx... @mrcctu.bsky.social