TB Alert
@tb-alert.bsky.social
TB Alert is the UK’s national tuberculosis charity. We are the only charity that focuses on TB both in the UK and overseas.
Our vision is the control and ultimate elimination of TB. Our mission is to increase access to effective treatment for all.
Our vision is the control and ultimate elimination of TB. Our mission is to increase access to effective treatment for all.
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TB Alert
@tb-alert.bsky.social
· Oct 10
There is a UK national shortage of some anti-TB medicines, expected to last until at least the end of 2025. Please be reassured that plans are in place to protect your health. Please find out more at bit.ly/4o8s6Yk or contact TB Alert:
[email protected]
-https://healthunlocked.com/tb-alert
[email protected]
-https://healthunlocked.com/tb-alert
We are so proud of @thattillyrose.bsky.social (who came to us for support during her TB journey) on the continued success of her book 'Be Patient'! We are grateful that her unhappy experience is now driving awareness of TB. An Amazon choice, it is now 99p on Kindle for November: shorturl.at/s7QLI
Be Patient: Life, loss and laughter from behind the hospital curtain
Tilly's poignant memoir offers raw, compassionate insights into Britain's healthcare, blending dark humor with profound lessons on perseverance and human connection.
shorturl.at
November 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We are so proud of @thattillyrose.bsky.social (who came to us for support during her TB journey) on the continued success of her book 'Be Patient'! We are grateful that her unhappy experience is now driving awareness of TB. An Amazon choice, it is now 99p on Kindle for November: shorturl.at/s7QLI
There is a UK national shortage of some anti-TB medicines, expected to last until at least the end of 2025. Please be reassured that plans are in place to protect your health. Please find out more at bit.ly/4o8s6Yk or contact TB Alert:
[email protected]
-https://healthunlocked.com/tb-alert
[email protected]
-https://healthunlocked.com/tb-alert
October 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
There is a UK national shortage of some anti-TB medicines, expected to last until at least the end of 2025. Please be reassured that plans are in place to protect your health. Please find out more at bit.ly/4o8s6Yk or contact TB Alert:
[email protected]
-https://healthunlocked.com/tb-alert
[email protected]
-https://healthunlocked.com/tb-alert
We're giving a big shout out to Alex Harris, who is running 10K next year to raise money for our life saving work. Alex first learnt of the historic impact of TB through her English degree. She was then inspired to act after reading John Green's contemporary account. justgiving.com/page/alex-ha...
Alex's 10K run to help the global fight against TB
Help Alex Harris raise money to support TB Alert
justgiving.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
We're giving a big shout out to Alex Harris, who is running 10K next year to raise money for our life saving work. Alex first learnt of the historic impact of TB through her English degree. She was then inspired to act after reading John Green's contemporary account. justgiving.com/page/alex-ha...
Thankfully, TB is no longer in fashion! Though sadly, it has not been confined to the history books: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
How Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Fashion
The deadly disease—and later efforts to control it—influenced trends for decades
www.smithsonianmag.com
September 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Thankfully, TB is no longer in fashion! Though sadly, it has not been confined to the history books: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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The All Party Parliamentary Group on Global TB has launched an inquiry into increasing TB rates.
If you have professional or lived experience of TB, your insights are vital. Help identify gaps, highlight good practice & shape a TB strategy for England: www.tbalert.org/news-article/appg-tb-inquiry
If you have professional or lived experience of TB, your insights are vital. Help identify gaps, highlight good practice & shape a TB strategy for England: www.tbalert.org/news-article/appg-tb-inquiry
August 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Global TB has launched an inquiry into increasing TB rates.
If you have professional or lived experience of TB, your insights are vital. Help identify gaps, highlight good practice & shape a TB strategy for England: www.tbalert.org/news-article/appg-tb-inquiry
If you have professional or lived experience of TB, your insights are vital. Help identify gaps, highlight good practice & shape a TB strategy for England: www.tbalert.org/news-article/appg-tb-inquiry
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*Paid interview* Share your story of TB and migration in a confidential one-to-one interview (phone or video) to share your experience as of screening, diagnosis, treatment, and support pre and post-entry to the UK. Findings will inform a National TB Action Plan. Get involved: [email protected]
August 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
*Paid interview* Share your story of TB and migration in a confidential one-to-one interview (phone or video) to share your experience as of screening, diagnosis, treatment, and support pre and post-entry to the UK. Findings will inform a National TB Action Plan. Get involved: [email protected]
*Paid interview* Share your story of TB and migration in a confidential one-to-one interview (phone or video) to share your experience as of screening, diagnosis, treatment, and support pre and post-entry to the UK. Findings will inform a National TB Action Plan. Get involved: [email protected]
August 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
*Paid interview* Share your story of TB and migration in a confidential one-to-one interview (phone or video) to share your experience as of screening, diagnosis, treatment, and support pre and post-entry to the UK. Findings will inform a National TB Action Plan. Get involved: [email protected]
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Global TB has launched an inquiry into increasing TB rates.
If you have professional or lived experience of TB, your insights are vital. Help identify gaps, highlight good practice & shape a TB strategy for England: www.tbalert.org/news-article/appg-tb-inquiry
If you have professional or lived experience of TB, your insights are vital. Help identify gaps, highlight good practice & shape a TB strategy for England: www.tbalert.org/news-article/appg-tb-inquiry
August 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Global TB has launched an inquiry into increasing TB rates.
If you have professional or lived experience of TB, your insights are vital. Help identify gaps, highlight good practice & shape a TB strategy for England: www.tbalert.org/news-article/appg-tb-inquiry
If you have professional or lived experience of TB, your insights are vital. Help identify gaps, highlight good practice & shape a TB strategy for England: www.tbalert.org/news-article/appg-tb-inquiry
A devastating but sadly not unexpected development: www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/aug/28/health-malawi-tuberculosis-tb-drugs-shortages-poverty-aid-cuts-who. It should not need to be said, but TB anywhere is TB everywhere so we must not forsake the most vulnerable.
Malawi set to run out of TB drugs in a month after US, UK and others cut aid
Gains in cutting deaths from tuberculosis at risk as health officials warn clinics forced to ration drugs and testing
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A devastating but sadly not unexpected development: www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/aug/28/health-malawi-tuberculosis-tb-drugs-shortages-poverty-aid-cuts-who. It should not need to be said, but TB anywhere is TB everywhere so we must not forsake the most vulnerable.
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Unsurprising but horrifying. Wherever there are people forced into crowded living conditions, there will be tuberculosis. Wherever people are dehumanized, there will be tuberculosis. prospect.org/health/2025-...
Tuberculosis Spawning in Crowded, Dirty ICE Detention Centers
Doctors and medical researchers expect more outbreaks of infectious disease as the Trump administration crams thousands more people into miserable conditions.
prospect.org
August 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Unsurprising but horrifying. Wherever there are people forced into crowded living conditions, there will be tuberculosis. Wherever people are dehumanized, there will be tuberculosis. prospect.org/health/2025-...
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In 2023, Tuberculosis overtook COVID-19 to once again become the world’s deadliest infectious disease. 🫁
Learn more about what TB is, how it spreads, and why health equity is the key to stopping it 👇
scienceupfirst.com/public-healt...
#ScienceUpFirst
Learn more about what TB is, how it spreads, and why health equity is the key to stopping it 👇
scienceupfirst.com/public-healt...
#ScienceUpFirst
August 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
In 2023, Tuberculosis overtook COVID-19 to once again become the world’s deadliest infectious disease. 🫁
Learn more about what TB is, how it spreads, and why health equity is the key to stopping it 👇
scienceupfirst.com/public-healt...
#ScienceUpFirst
Learn more about what TB is, how it spreads, and why health equity is the key to stopping it 👇
scienceupfirst.com/public-healt...
#ScienceUpFirst
Exciting news! All the content for our new website has gone to production. The countdown for our relaunch is officially on. Donate now to help us maintain this momentum and bring you even more TB information and resources: www.justgiving.com/charity/tbalert
July 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Exciting news! All the content for our new website has gone to production. The countdown for our relaunch is officially on. Donate now to help us maintain this momentum and bring you even more TB information and resources: www.justgiving.com/charity/tbalert
Your story is powerful. Whether you're a person with lived experience, a healthcare professional or an advocate – your insight can bring TB the attention it deserves.
If TB has touched your life in any way, share your story now 🔗www.thetruthabouttb.org/talking-tb/stories/share-your-story
If TB has touched your life in any way, share your story now 🔗www.thetruthabouttb.org/talking-tb/stories/share-your-story
July 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Your story is powerful. Whether you're a person with lived experience, a healthcare professional or an advocate – your insight can bring TB the attention it deserves.
If TB has touched your life in any way, share your story now 🔗www.thetruthabouttb.org/talking-tb/stories/share-your-story
If TB has touched your life in any way, share your story now 🔗www.thetruthabouttb.org/talking-tb/stories/share-your-story
Your voice can change lives! Help shape TB Alert's future by taking our quick survey. Your input directly influences our new digital-first strategy to #EndTB #TB #tuberculosis. Take the survey: bit.ly/4lfUIh1
July 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Your voice can change lives! Help shape TB Alert's future by taking our quick survey. Your input directly influences our new digital-first strategy to #EndTB #TB #tuberculosis. Take the survey: bit.ly/4lfUIh1
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Important new @msfaccess.org report highlights how even EU countries lack appropriate access to #tuberculosis medicines💊.
"Bridging the gap: Securing access to essential #TB medicines in the EU and EEA"
msfaccess.org/bridging-gap...
(other high-income countries like Canada face similar challenges)
"Bridging the gap: Securing access to essential #TB medicines in the EU and EEA"
msfaccess.org/bridging-gap...
(other high-income countries like Canada face similar challenges)
July 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Important new @msfaccess.org report highlights how even EU countries lack appropriate access to #tuberculosis medicines💊.
"Bridging the gap: Securing access to essential #TB medicines in the EU and EEA"
msfaccess.org/bridging-gap...
(other high-income countries like Canada face similar challenges)
"Bridging the gap: Securing access to essential #TB medicines in the EU and EEA"
msfaccess.org/bridging-gap...
(other high-income countries like Canada face similar challenges)
This is a worrying development when we know that smoking increases vulnerability to #TB #tuberculosis by stressing the immune system and also results in a poorer response to treatment.
E-cigarettes risk “renormalising” smoking, says major new WHO report www.bmj.com/content/389/...
E-cigarettes risk “renormalising” smoking, says major new WHO report
The rise of new and emerging nicotine products, including e-cigarettes, nicotine pouches, and heated tobacco products, threatens to undermine hard won public health gains made over the past 20 years,…
www.bmj.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This is a worrying development when we know that smoking increases vulnerability to #TB #tuberculosis by stressing the immune system and also results in a poorer response to treatment.
TB Alert needs YOU! We were hard hit by the pandemic and continued difficult global funding environment. But we’re responding strongly with a digital-first relaunch. We need your input at this critical moment, to shape our future www.tbalert.org/about-us/a-new-chapter/ #YourVoiceMatters #EndTB
June 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
TB Alert needs YOU! We were hard hit by the pandemic and continued difficult global funding environment. But we’re responding strongly with a digital-first relaunch. We need your input at this critical moment, to shape our future www.tbalert.org/about-us/a-new-chapter/ #YourVoiceMatters #EndTB
The financial ground is shifting beneath global health - with critical TB programmes bearing the brunt. Services are disrupted, and ongoing drug trials face abrupt endings. This is a direct threat to lives and our ambition to #EndTB by 2035. Alternative donors are needed now - lives depend on it.
Researcher Amita Gupta has spent more than a decade planning and running a $70-million trial to study a new tuberculosis drug, enrolling ~6,000 participants in 13 countries. It might all have been for nothing.
That's because a new NIH policy has abruptly cut off billions to trials abroad. 🧪
That's because a new NIH policy has abruptly cut off billions to trials abroad. 🧪
NIH grant cuts will axe clinical trials abroad — and could leave thousands without care
US agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds.
www.nature.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The financial ground is shifting beneath global health - with critical TB programmes bearing the brunt. Services are disrupted, and ongoing drug trials face abrupt endings. This is a direct threat to lives and our ambition to #EndTB by 2035. Alternative donors are needed now - lives depend on it.
A huge thanks to Ruth Roberts for completing the Great Birmingham Run to raise over £200 for TB Alert! This is a fantastic effort, not least because Ruth has lasting effects to her knee from TB. Despite this, Ruth smiled through the pain and came out victorious - a testament to all who beat TB!
June 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
A huge thanks to Ruth Roberts for completing the Great Birmingham Run to raise over £200 for TB Alert! This is a fantastic effort, not least because Ruth has lasting effects to her knee from TB. Despite this, Ruth smiled through the pain and came out victorious - a testament to all who beat TB!
Congratulations to Sameer Sah, TB Alert's former Director of Overseas Programmes, on receiving the new British Humanitarian Medal from King Charles! This award recognises his vital role securing healthcare for those affected by the Gaza conflict, as Head of Programmes at Medical Aid to Palestinians.
May 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Congratulations to Sameer Sah, TB Alert's former Director of Overseas Programmes, on receiving the new British Humanitarian Medal from King Charles! This award recognises his vital role securing healthcare for those affected by the Gaza conflict, as Head of Programmes at Medical Aid to Palestinians.
📢 #EUTestingWeek! Did you know TB can hide in your body for years without making you ill?
🗣️ If you have links to a country with high rates of TB or work in an occupation that increases your risk ask about a latent TB test. Prevention is better than cure. #LatentTB #Tuberculosis #eutestingweek
🗣️ If you have links to a country with high rates of TB or work in an occupation that increases your risk ask about a latent TB test. Prevention is better than cure. #LatentTB #Tuberculosis #eutestingweek
May 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
📢 #EUTestingWeek! Did you know TB can hide in your body for years without making you ill?
🗣️ If you have links to a country with high rates of TB or work in an occupation that increases your risk ask about a latent TB test. Prevention is better than cure. #LatentTB #Tuberculosis #eutestingweek
🗣️ If you have links to a country with high rates of TB or work in an occupation that increases your risk ask about a latent TB test. Prevention is better than cure. #LatentTB #Tuberculosis #eutestingweek
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🇪🇺 @ecdc.europa.eu sounds alarm on #PublicHealth
“Despite being preventable, every year, over 57 000 people in the EU die from #AIDS, #TB & #hepatitis — a high toll for a continent with available resources, knowledge and effective tools for prevention and control.”
www.politico.eu/sponsored-co...
“Despite being preventable, every year, over 57 000 people in the EU die from #AIDS, #TB & #hepatitis — a high toll for a continent with available resources, knowledge and effective tools for prevention and control.”
www.politico.eu/sponsored-co...
Europe’s health at a crossroads: Stronger efforts needed to achieve 2030 targets
HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections are causing unnecessary suffering across Europe — it is time to take action.
www.politico.eu
April 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
🇪🇺 @ecdc.europa.eu sounds alarm on #PublicHealth
“Despite being preventable, every year, over 57 000 people in the EU die from #AIDS, #TB & #hepatitis — a high toll for a continent with available resources, knowledge and effective tools for prevention and control.”
www.politico.eu/sponsored-co...
“Despite being preventable, every year, over 57 000 people in the EU die from #AIDS, #TB & #hepatitis — a high toll for a continent with available resources, knowledge and effective tools for prevention and control.”
www.politico.eu/sponsored-co...
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Tuberculosis: a threat to health security in the European region and the collective actions needed - The Lancet
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Tuberculosis: a threat to health security in the European region and the collective actions needed
The 2025 European tuberculosis surveillance report underscores the gravity of the
situation in the WHO European region.1 Across 53 member states in Europe and Central
Asia, more than 225 000 people ha...
www.thelancet.com
April 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Tuberculosis: a threat to health security in the European region and the collective actions needed - The Lancet
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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“We know how to live in a world without tuberculosis, and that means, ultimately, that we’re choosing to live in a world with tuberculosis,” @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social said. “But all of y’all are making a different choice. And that is my great encouragement.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Tuberculosis could end if there’s more US public health funding, experts say
Resurgence could be on horizon as outbreaks pick up speed in US and abroad amid public health program cuts
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“We know how to live in a world without tuberculosis, and that means, ultimately, that we’re choosing to live in a world with tuberculosis,” @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social said. “But all of y’all are making a different choice. And that is my great encouragement.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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📈 #TB in England and #Poverty: “the canary in the coal mine for other health issues related to social deprivation – everything from other infectious diseases to chronic conditions like diabetes.”
Tuberculosis (TB) cases rose 13 per cent in England last year, with increases among both immigrants and people born in the UK.
Why is the world’s deadliest infectious disease on the rise in the UK?
Tuberculosis (TB) cases rose 13 per cent in England last year, with increases among both immigrants and people born in the UK.
l.euronews.com
April 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM