We are proud to partner with @SpeakTB to highlight the opportunities for leveraging successes in TB and noncommunicable disease care - including the compassion and patient-centered care delivery so excellently demonstrated in Chennai @s_keshavjee@MWAdvanceAandD@AmandaBrumwell
"We have to think about going beyond hospitals & taking health care to where people live and work. For that, we have to figure out the nuts & bolts of health care delivery, & build programmes based on care & compassion" - @s_keshavjee delivering an impassioned call to action
AA&D South Africa and Bellhaven Harm Reduction Centre have pioneered care for people who use drugs in Durban. Their hard work was recognized in @SACitiesNetwork Good Hood Story series: https://t.co/cIAE5sl1rE @MWAdvanceAandD@s_keshavjee
#COVIDー19 está llevando a muchas familias a la pobreza y enfermedades como la #tuberculosis asoman con más fuerza ante el cansancio y limitaciones de nuestros sistemas de salud.
AA&D Executive Director Tom Nicholson and Senior Clinician @s_keshavjee in @WSJ : "It is past time to deploy a strategy that protects the vulnerable while interrupting airborne viral transmission in places where people come together." https://t.co/u26mmcpBEy
Our research with @AunPalmquist demonstrated an urgent need for trauma-informed care for displaced Yazidi women. These people cannot be forgotten by the international community. Support safe and sustainable resettlement for Yazidis. @UNCpublichealth@DukeDCID@DukeSanford
As we aim to open up public spaces and protect workers, upper room germicidal lighting is a critical tool in our arsenal againt the virus. @Media_AAD@IRDGlobal
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via @NYTimes - to understand what threatens world if we don’t act smart #TB killed people before #spanishflu, continued to kill since then, will continue to kill people after COVID! Don’t repeat mistakes @StopTB @WHO @RESULTS_Tweets https://t.co/GLzqwrKoxE
Tuberculosis kills 4,000 people every day. And we have largely had a cure since 1948. With health system a only focusing on COVID, tuberculosis is now spreading even faster. @Media_AAD@PIH@harvardmed
We're honored to be a part of this important event. Thank you to everyone who has contributed, especially Baja California Secretary of Health, Caleb Cienfuegos; our colleagues at Imperial County Public Health; and Rosa Herrera Torres of JSSM. #zerotb#tb
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Our research partners recently visited an IDP camp as part of our work to understand and address the critical gaps in health care delivery for families displaced by conflict in Iraq @AunPalmquist @MWAdvanceAandD@AAD_Durham https://t.co/7AyO1VGvVe
We're grateful for our partners at @CNNC_UNCG, Refugee Community Partnership, and the Kenan Biddle Partnership as we develop supportive tools for the organizations and individuals who assist the refugee and immigrant communities in North Carolina.
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On @WDD it will be good to know this fact - there are today more people in the world with the co-morbidity of TB and diabetes than co-infection of TB and HIV. We need to do more about the co-morbidity of TB and diabetes. @StopTB@LucicaDitiu
We're honored to have met with Nobel Laureate Nadia Murad and learned about her work on behalf of the Yazidi. We hope continued attention and action build on this momentum to address this urgent humanitarian crisis. @MWAdvanceAandD @AunPalmquist @Media_AAD https://t.co/S1ori9YXcZ
South & North Korea agreed to jointly establish measures to combat infectious diseases, including tuberculosis & malaria, during an inter-Korean meeting of the two countries’ high-ranking health officials yesterday. Read more here: https://t.co/3YUjyQvtEl
Tuberculosis is the deadliest infectious disease in the world, killing more people each year than malaria and HIV combined. We've been fighting the disease in Peru since the 1990s, proving that treatment is possible in resource-poor countries. https://t.co/ikXYOcHWlm