Great to collaborate with colleagues in Ethiopia. A decentralised HBV programme achieved some good on-treatment results but half of patients lost to follow up. We need to work out how to better engage and retain patients in care. #idsky #hepsky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Published today. We found that hepatitis B was the leading cause of cirrhosis and HCC in southern Malawi. HCC is diagnosed at a very late stage. Huge opportunity to prevent liver-related death with community hepatitis B test and treat programmes. #hepsky #idsky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Hepatitis B care must be overhauled to meet WHO 2030 elimination targets news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/08/19/g...

Our review just published in Lancet Gastro Hepatology. We looked at outcomes across the care cascade for people living with hepatitis B and found some serious gaps in care provision. We need to do better #hepsky #idsky #liversky. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Introducing sumvar for R. A package to rapidly summarise and visualise variables with one-line commands, bringing the brilliant tab and sum functions from stata, to R. Install it from cran using install.packages(“sumvar”). #rstats alstockdale.github.io/sumvar/

A packed conference room to hear about the new HBV treatment guidelines from #EASL2025

Just published. Our review estimated that vertical transmission of hepatitis B in the WHO African region could be eliminated with birth dose vaccination and maternal antiviral prophylaxis. An exciting possibility- will we find the political will? #idsky #hepsky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

For the past 21 years the U.S. through PEPFAR has:  👉 Enabled 5.5 million babies to be born HIV-free 👉 Provided 20 million people with lifesaving HIV treatment 👉 Supported 7 million orphans and vulnerable children. Ending this support will end lives. #SaveHIVFunding www.unaids.org/en/topic/PEP...

Anticipatory obedience to an autocracy and why it must be resisted- a beautifully well written article. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

Extraordinarily cruel People will get sick Drug resistance will spike It sounds as if PEPFAR could be terminated (not just “paused”) Until now, PEPFAR enjoyed bipartisan support & has arguably been one of the most effective bilateral health aid programs ever www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

We thank the reviewer for their useful suggestions, which have greatly improved the paper

The current system of peer review, am I right? 🧪

It's that time of year to bring out our @bmj.com xmas paper On the 12th Day of Christmas, a Statistician Sent to Me... from 2022 (w/ @richarddriley.bsky.social) with our list of commonly seen statistical faux pas🎄 www.bmj.com/content/379/... #StatsSky #EpiSky

In most places in the world, power from new renewables is now cheaper than power from new fossil fuels. Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? The answer: learning curves.

Tenets of Infectious Diseases: 1. Source control, source control, source control 2. Stuff sticks to metal (and other material) 3. The drug has to get in to work (GI absorption, tissue penetration, presence of walled-off collection, etc.) 4. Antibiotics should not be anxiolytics

We often worry about the wrong things. People killed annually by Sharks 10 Elephants 100 Hippos 500 Snails 10,000 Dogs 25,000 Snakes 50,000 People 475,000 Mosquitoes 725,000 🧪

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic. www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

Chuffed to have been awarded an NIHR Global Health research grant with Maud Lemoine and Gibril Ndow. We’re going to evaluate universal tenofovir for all pregnant women living with hepatitis B to prevent vertical transmssion in Malawi and The Gambia over the next 4 years. #idsky #hepsky

🚨 Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections BALANCE trial publication is here ! #IDsky #Medsky @idjclub.bsky.social www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Posting this because these images are making the rounds again. Plus, someone told me it was the best thing I ever did, and I was flattered. p.s. only possible since I've been directly involved with several papers that meet these exact criteria, so mea culpa blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...