#endtb #patientsnotpatents

The #StopTB partnership released a statement this morning saying #JohnsonAndJohnson has allowed them to produce generic #bedaquiline and make it available in most developing countries, even in those where the secondary patent is still in effect.

While J&J haven’t released their own statement yet, and this isn’t a complete dropping of their patent, this is a huge step forward in ending TB and deserves to be celebrated.

#PatientsNotPatents #tubercolosis #EndTB

https://www.stoptb.org/news/global-drug-facility-update-access-to-bedaquiline

The #GeneOntology provides #OpenAccess information on the functions of genes to support research in many fields. We have over 500k #GOannotations for M. #tuberculosis gene products, taxon:1773 & descendants. Find them on @QuickGO_EBI:
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO/annotations?taxonId=1773&taxonUsage=descendants

#WorldTBDay #EndTB
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RT @UNYearbook
In 1947–48, the annual death rate from tuberculosis was 4–5 million people, with 40–50…
https://twitter.com/UNYearbook/status/1639322450935545873

RT @TerezaKasaeva
On the occasion of #WorldTBDay please see our @TheLancet Comment: Fast-tracking progress to #EndTB: high-level opportunities for investment and action - with @paimadhu & @HMonica_Dias #YesWeCanEndTB https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2823%2900460-9/fulltext

Today is World TB Day! Yes we can #endTB For more info, check out the @WHO (https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-tb-day/2023) and @CDCgov (https://www.cdc.gov/tb/worldtbday/default.htm) websites!

On #WorldTBDay2023, meet the IMI projects working to #EndTB... starting with our @AMRAccelerator@twitter.com which has projects dedicated to #tuberculosis #TB - @IMI_ERA4TB@twitter.com @UNITE4TB@twitter.com @TRIC_TB@twitter.com & RESPIRI-TB
#YesWeCanEndTB

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#EndTB

Today is #WorldTuberculosisDay.
To mark this important occasion, we spoke to Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan about her career-long quest to #EndTB:

👩‍🔬https://journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/16/3/dmm050189/297311

#zebrafish #tuberculosis #antimicrobialresistance

RT @WHO
It's World Tuberculosis Day.

Tuberculosis - or TB - is caused by bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis that most often affect the lungs.

#Tuberculosis is curable and preventable http://bit.ly/3yYNwzx

#EndTB #WorldTBDay

Very good news.
People affected by TB were hit particularly hard during COVID-19, as gains made over decades were rolled back. TB deaths increased between 2019-2020, and 1.6M people died from TB in 2021.
This is an urgent #globalhealth priority. #endTB
https://healthpolicy-watch.news/who-announces-new-tb-vaccine-accelerator-at-davos-as-high-level-panel-discusses-elimination-challenge/?utm_campaign=pharmalittle&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=242352432&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_moIuzYqiCPe494irIN5ZHqfA2cjm9ocXHQ-f2a25Pk5ShwumKMHXQYGJ_HEbKTu-WkDwfpx2rUpVA-wCJbYOnCP8VvWbG75vZehhoiQUHilAyq1c&utm_content=242352432&utm_source=hs_email

Congrats @SimonGLapierre &co.
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RT @CRCHUM
Study @LancetMicrobe co-authored by @SimonGLapierre evaluating @nanopore as a sequencing replacement/complement for Illumina for #tuberculosis drug susceptibility testing + outbreak investigation @UMontreal @FRQS1 @CIHR_IRSC @pasteurMG @McGill_TB #EndTB
👉https://bit.ly/3VdHOSY
https://twitter.com/CRCHUM/status/1605307300465475584

RT @SwetaDash93
India is the highest contributor to global #Tuberculosis cases with nearly 3 million cases, accounting for 26% of cases and 34% of all deaths worldwide.

Yet, the govt wants to rely on volunteers to #EndTB.

I write with @Psaligram1 and others. (🧵1/n)

https://article-14.com/post/-why-new-modi-govt-schemeto-let-donors-directly-pay-india-s-tb-patients-is-unlikely-to-help-end-the-disease-by-2025-639fd019693d3

#endtb

So excited to share that the National TB Controllers Association / NTCA has generously put together a Giving Tuesday page for We Are TB so we can travel our survivors to the National TB Conference in Atlanta in June for advocacy training! Please consider donating/share! Every dollar will be cherished and used toward travel fees and pier diems for our advocates. #EndTB #StopTB #TBfreeUSA #WeAreTB #tuberculosis
https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/giving-tuesday-2022

Hello mastodon here’s an #introduction - I’m an advocate for #tuberculosis R/D and better care - I had #TB myself and I hate it so much! I work with other TB survivors and people personally affected by the disease in the USA, our group is called “We Are TB”. I also work with other advocates around the world! Would love to connect with anyone trying to #EndTB .

A new study published in PLOS Global Public Health shows that a short, all-oral, 6-month treatment regimen for drug-resistant #tuberculosis can save national governments up to US$740 million annually. This regimen will be included in the new World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for the treatment of DR-TB, a form of the disease which impacts nearly half a million people each year. Find out more about how the cost of implementing this therapy is potentially 40-90% less expensive than current regimens: https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0001287 #EndTB

RT @HeroRATs@twitter.com

TODAY IS WORLD TB DAY! Our scientists, handlers, HeroRATs and partners continue to work hard to Find. Treat. All #EndTB and you can help... Just $50 could screen 250 samples.

http://bit.ly/2TGkQcy

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HeroRATs/status/1109817511594414080