Lynda Stranix-Chibanda
@stranchi.bsky.social
🇿🇼 Paediatrician, researcher at University of Zimbabwe, advocate for women’s health with scores of mentees working in HIV affected populations throughout the life span. UWC alumnus ‘86-‘88 https://www.uwc.org/
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𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁!
Based at Zvitambo in 🇿🇼, this CREATE-funded post focuses on recovery in children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), through the Co-SAM trial. Apply by 30 Apr 2025
www.create-phd.org/post/phd-fel...
Based at Zvitambo in 🇿🇼, this CREATE-funded post focuses on recovery in children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), through the Co-SAM trial. Apply by 30 Apr 2025
www.create-phd.org/post/phd-fel...
PhD Fellowship Opportunity at Zvitambo in Zimbabwe
Reference number ZI2501 Closing date - 30th April 2025 Applications are now open for a PhD fellowship based at the Zvitambo Institute for Maternal and Child Health Research in Zimbabwe.This fellowship...
www.create-phd.org
April 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁!
Based at Zvitambo in 🇿🇼, this CREATE-funded post focuses on recovery in children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), through the Co-SAM trial. Apply by 30 Apr 2025
www.create-phd.org/post/phd-fel...
Based at Zvitambo in 🇿🇼, this CREATE-funded post focuses on recovery in children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), through the Co-SAM trial. Apply by 30 Apr 2025
www.create-phd.org/post/phd-fel...
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The Times and Sunday Times are FREE today. Help yourself to my columns! www.thetimes.com/article/1a17...
At 47, my hands look old. But I won’t wear gloves like Madonna
‘I love how your hands look,’ says Pete. ‘They look like they’ve been busy cooking, typing and gardening. They look clever’
www.thetimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The Times and Sunday Times are FREE today. Help yourself to my columns! www.thetimes.com/article/1a17...
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Proud to be part of the #ACTG A5418 study team! This is why we need these studies - we can’t rely on animal data alone and people deserve safe and effective #mpox treatment. Stay tuned for more on the PK and PK/PD! @cupharmacy.bsky.social @cuanschutz.bsky.social #IDSky www.nih.gov/news-events/...
Tecovirimat is safe but ineffective as treatment for clade II mpox
NIH-sponsored trial data offer further evidence to help inform mpox treatment decisions.
www.nih.gov
March 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Proud to be part of the #ACTG A5418 study team! This is why we need these studies - we can’t rely on animal data alone and people deserve safe and effective #mpox treatment. Stay tuned for more on the PK and PK/PD! @cupharmacy.bsky.social @cuanschutz.bsky.social #IDSky www.nih.gov/news-events/...
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It doesn't take much to make language person-first.....
"those failing ART" - is it the person's fault?!
"those on failing ART" - 'blames' the regimen not the person
Small things, big impact
#languagematters #CROI2025
www.peoplefirstcharter.org
@peoplefirstcharter.bsky.social
"those failing ART" - is it the person's fault?!
"those on failing ART" - 'blames' the regimen not the person
Small things, big impact
#languagematters #CROI2025
www.peoplefirstcharter.org
@peoplefirstcharter.bsky.social
People First Charter
Person first language
www.peoplefirstcharter.org
March 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
It doesn't take much to make language person-first.....
"those failing ART" - is it the person's fault?!
"those on failing ART" - 'blames' the regimen not the person
Small things, big impact
#languagematters #CROI2025
www.peoplefirstcharter.org
@peoplefirstcharter.bsky.social
"those failing ART" - is it the person's fault?!
"those on failing ART" - 'blames' the regimen not the person
Small things, big impact
#languagematters #CROI2025
www.peoplefirstcharter.org
@peoplefirstcharter.bsky.social
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Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region.
We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant
survival over the past 50...
www.thelancet.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
February 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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31 days in January
3 micro moment strategies for self-care each day blogged
That’s 93 strategies shared to build our #self-care toolbox & help us all be Citizen Wellbeing Scientists!
Amazing.
Find out for yourself & share with others www.citizenwellbeingscientist.com/blog
#wellbeing
3 micro moment strategies for self-care each day blogged
That’s 93 strategies shared to build our #self-care toolbox & help us all be Citizen Wellbeing Scientists!
Amazing.
Find out for yourself & share with others www.citizenwellbeingscientist.com/blog
#wellbeing
a woman with blonde hair and red lipstick is wearing a red dress .
ALT: a woman with blonde hair and red lipstick is wearing a red dress .
media.tenor.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM
31 days in January
3 micro moment strategies for self-care each day blogged
That’s 93 strategies shared to build our #self-care toolbox & help us all be Citizen Wellbeing Scientists!
Amazing.
Find out for yourself & share with others www.citizenwellbeingscientist.com/blog
#wellbeing
3 micro moment strategies for self-care each day blogged
That’s 93 strategies shared to build our #self-care toolbox & help us all be Citizen Wellbeing Scientists!
Amazing.
Find out for yourself & share with others www.citizenwellbeingscientist.com/blog
#wellbeing
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We are celebrating and appreciating others today with this #selfcare 5-Minute Celebration of Others routine.
(Reminder to self: self-care is relational; we care for self in order to care for others).
www.citizenwellbeingscientist.com/blog/5-minut...
(Reminder to self: self-care is relational; we care for self in order to care for others).
www.citizenwellbeingscientist.com/blog/5-minut...
January 12, 2025 at 5:18 AM
We are celebrating and appreciating others today with this #selfcare 5-Minute Celebration of Others routine.
(Reminder to self: self-care is relational; we care for self in order to care for others).
www.citizenwellbeingscientist.com/blog/5-minut...
(Reminder to self: self-care is relational; we care for self in order to care for others).
www.citizenwellbeingscientist.com/blog/5-minut...
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Because who doesn't love a good simulation of measles vaccination and herd immunity? www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
Watch how the measles outbreak spreads when kids get vaccinated – and when they don't
If you take 10 communities and run a simulation, it’s easy to see why we need as many members of the ‘herd’ as possible to get vaccines – before it’s too late
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Because who doesn't love a good simulation of measles vaccination and herd immunity? www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
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Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo
Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo
Court said five women were victims of ‘systematic kidnapping’ by state over forced removal from mothers as small children
The Belgian state has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for the forced removal of five mixed-race children from their…
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo
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Super excited to announce our trial PROMISE which will run in Harare.
Led by Rashida Ferrand & great team. Will investigate impact of screening for gonorrhoea & chlamydia in pregnancy.
Urgently need better data on STI screening & hope this will help address this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMQ3...
Led by Rashida Ferrand & great team. Will investigate impact of screening for gonorrhoea & chlamydia in pregnancy.
Urgently need better data on STI screening & hope this will help address this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMQ3...
PROMISE Consent Video English
YouTube video by THRU ZIM
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Super excited to announce our trial PROMISE which will run in Harare.
Led by Rashida Ferrand & great team. Will investigate impact of screening for gonorrhoea & chlamydia in pregnancy.
Urgently need better data on STI screening & hope this will help address this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMQ3...
Led by Rashida Ferrand & great team. Will investigate impact of screening for gonorrhoea & chlamydia in pregnancy.
Urgently need better data on STI screening & hope this will help address this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMQ3...
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To be clear, human rights are not some form of privileges that are “gifted” to people by those in power. The rights to life, to health, to security, to food, to water, to an identity, to live a life without discrimination, to freedom, justice, are inalienable, non negotiable rights. For everyone.
December 1, 2024 at 10:54 AM
To be clear, human rights are not some form of privileges that are “gifted” to people by those in power. The rights to life, to health, to security, to food, to water, to an identity, to live a life without discrimination, to freedom, justice, are inalienable, non negotiable rights. For everyone.
Remembering all those we lost to HIV🇿🇼and resolving to do better
December 1, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Remembering all those we lost to HIV🇿🇼and resolving to do better
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I was diagnosed with HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died but I was told, with the new drugs available, I could expect to live another 20 years.
That was 27 years ago.
Honour those we lost.
Celebrate that we can now treat and prevent HIV.
Make HIV stigma history.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died but I was told, with the new drugs available, I could expect to live another 20 years.
That was 27 years ago.
Honour those we lost.
Celebrate that we can now treat and prevent HIV.
Make HIV stigma history.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2024 at 9:17 AM
I was diagnosed with HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died but I was told, with the new drugs available, I could expect to live another 20 years.
That was 27 years ago.
Honour those we lost.
Celebrate that we can now treat and prevent HIV.
Make HIV stigma history.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died but I was told, with the new drugs available, I could expect to live another 20 years.
That was 27 years ago.
Honour those we lost.
Celebrate that we can now treat and prevent HIV.
Make HIV stigma history.
#WorldAIDSDay
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Organisers of #sociology, #climatescience and #publichealth conferences - if you don’t offer online presentation and participation options, what has happened to your avowed sustainability, equity and inclusion values? (Repost due to typo)
December 1, 2024 at 1:57 AM
Organisers of #sociology, #climatescience and #publichealth conferences - if you don’t offer online presentation and participation options, what has happened to your avowed sustainability, equity and inclusion values? (Repost due to typo)
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This approach has a well-known consequence: it's called the minority tax that faculty of color often face as we're called upon to address inequities in the larger system. I just want to make sure we don't keep adding to that tax. 4/4.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The burden of service for faculty of color to achieve diversity and inclusion: the minority tax
The exclusion of Blacks/African-Americans, Latinx/Hispanics, and Indigenous people from science has resulted in their underrepresentation in the biomedical workforce, especially in academia. Faculty d...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 27, 2024 at 1:59 AM
This approach has a well-known consequence: it's called the minority tax that faculty of color often face as we're called upon to address inequities in the larger system. I just want to make sure we don't keep adding to that tax. 4/4.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Faculty mentoring in academic institutions, a thread.
As I advance in my academic career (read: as I keep getting more gray hair), I've come to appreciate, even more than before, the profound responsibility we (senior-ish faculty) have to support and nurture emerging talent, not diminish it.
As I advance in my academic career (read: as I keep getting more gray hair), I've come to appreciate, even more than before, the profound responsibility we (senior-ish faculty) have to support and nurture emerging talent, not diminish it.
November 21, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Faculty mentoring in academic institutions, a thread.
As I advance in my academic career (read: as I keep getting more gray hair), I've come to appreciate, even more than before, the profound responsibility we (senior-ish faculty) have to support and nurture emerging talent, not diminish it.
As I advance in my academic career (read: as I keep getting more gray hair), I've come to appreciate, even more than before, the profound responsibility we (senior-ish faculty) have to support and nurture emerging talent, not diminish it.
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The iron in your blood, the calcium in your bones, the oxygen that fills your lungs each time you take a breath - all were forged in stars that lived and died before the Earth and Sun were born. You are literally stardust made flesh. You were literally born in heaven www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Furnac...
November 19, 2024 at 10:13 AM
The iron in your blood, the calcium in your bones, the oxygen that fills your lungs each time you take a breath - all were forged in stars that lived and died before the Earth and Sun were born. You are literally stardust made flesh. You were literally born in heaven www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Furnac...
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BLACK WOMEN IN #STEM
i made a starter pack for black women in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and would really love to keep adding to it so please hmu if you fit the criteria or know someone who does! 🧪
go.bsky.app/9jYkUK1
i made a starter pack for black women in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and would really love to keep adding to it so please hmu if you fit the criteria or know someone who does! 🧪
go.bsky.app/9jYkUK1
November 18, 2024 at 6:35 PM
BLACK WOMEN IN #STEM
i made a starter pack for black women in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and would really love to keep adding to it so please hmu if you fit the criteria or know someone who does! 🧪
go.bsky.app/9jYkUK1
i made a starter pack for black women in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and would really love to keep adding to it so please hmu if you fit the criteria or know someone who does! 🧪
go.bsky.app/9jYkUK1
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In 2017, I wrote this piece:
Trump budget threatens Zimbabwe climate change resilience programs
news.mongabay.com/2017/07/trum...
Trump budget threatens Zimbabwe climate change resilience programs
news.mongabay.com/2017/07/trum...
Trump budget threatens Zimbabwe climate change resilience programs
USAID has improved rural climate change resilience since 2013; now the U.S. may cut that lifeline, with dire results for Zimbabwe’s poorest.
news.mongabay.com
November 18, 2024 at 11:26 AM
In 2017, I wrote this piece:
Trump budget threatens Zimbabwe climate change resilience programs
news.mongabay.com/2017/07/trum...
Trump budget threatens Zimbabwe climate change resilience programs
news.mongabay.com/2017/07/trum...