Poverty and TB symposium session starting in 10 mins at Union #WCLH2025. Stellar speakers on this vital topic and I am delighted to chair. Room B4A (bring a coat!).

Just had a brilliant week with the whole TB Module team here @lstmnews.bsky.social teaching on the #DTMH #TB module. A wonderful bunch of smart, curious, engaging and engaged students! What a privilege and good luck with the rest of the course!

🌍 New @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social!
Pooled sputum testing for TB: revisiting a cost-saving innovation

🚫 Let's bust pooling myths & misconceptions!

🔬 Pooling is efficient, accurate, cost-saving & improves equity of access!

📖 Read at doi.org/10.1016/S221...

Thanks @unitaid.bsky.social for funding!

💡 TB's impact doesn’t just end with treatment: nor should cost-effectiveness analysis. New @lstmnews.bsky.social led multi-country modelling study @plosglobalpublichealth.org shows excluding patient costs or post-TB impact underestimates intervention cost-effectivenes & benefit.
tinyurl.com/arkhnwcp

📢 🙌 #TBcommunity @britsciassoc.bsky.social #BritishScienceFestival is in Liverpool!

Fatima Karmadwala & I are thrilled to give #BSF2025 award lecture "Fighting poverty & stigma to defeat TB"

Redmonds Building, LJMU, 12.30-1.30, Thurs 11 Sept

Free tickets:
tinyurl.com/4s5sxax8

See you there!!

Despite Kenya’s National Health Insurance Fund #NHIF, 72% weren't enrolled, & 95% relied on coping strategies (borrowing/selling assets). Important implications for new Social Health Insurance Fund #SHIF.
@lancetgh.bsky.social linked comment here
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40580981/
& 📻podcast below

📢in @lancetgh.bsky.social we show heavy catastrophic health expenditure burden in people with chronic respiratory disease symptoms,Meru #Kenya.🔍 Of 296 adults,26% had #CHE (health costs>10% household expenses),CHE more likely in females & if seeking care accompanied or at sub-county/county hosps.

📣🎉NEW PAPER BMC PUBLIC HEALTH! People with TB in Mozambique navigate complex pathways to care (fig.) leading to severe socioeconomic consequences. Well done Dr Pedroso Nhassengo for leading this vital PhD research & look forward to addressing this through policy/practice change! tinyurl.com/hefyf8ju

📣*NEW PAPER @natureportfolio.bsky.social rdcu.be/d7CnM Our @ukri.org TB-CAPS study in Indonesia (tinyurl.com/5hfcfm9t) worked with multisectoral stakeholders inc. TB survivors to co-design a psychosocial intervention to reduce stigma&depression of TB-affected people! Evaluation paper to follow!

Super article by our FCDO-funded #LIGHTonTB's Dr Mazi Chukwuebuka, developing a strategy to link more men with TB to diagnosis & care:
'Co-creation of a gender responsive TB intervention in Nigeria: a researcher-led collaborative study'

bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

5/ We mapped the #psychosocialsupport intervention target populations, activities, mechanisms of action & intended outcomes onto an integrated framework for stigma reduction in infectious diseases to show possible pathways towards psychosocial wellbeing.
idpjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

2/ Our scoping review "Community-based psychosocial support interventions to reduce #stigma and improve #mentalhealth of people with #infectiousdiseases" identified 30 studies including 21 on #HIV, 7 on #Leprosy, and 2 on #TB.

idpjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....