Thank you for asking! The Indiana Pacers are 20% owned by Steven Rales. Steven is also the cofounder and chairman of Danaher, which owns Cepheid. Cepheid makes GeneXpert rapid TB tests. Making rapid tests affordable and broadly accessible is a key part of the strategy to end TB!

As we know, Everything is Tuberculosis. This includes Game 7 of the NBA finals. Ask me how

We are paying attention to tuberculosis 👀 🐝 wtop.com/health-fitne...

Personally I estimate that at #TBHillDay advocates spent at least one bajillion hours being really nice and cool

All across the country today, TBFighters are getting on planes and trains and automobiles and heading towards the nation's capital. It's like a reverse infection. Or maybe we are the immune response...? Antibiotics? Still workshopping tbh

TB is rare in the US partly because of brilliant trans people. The US put xray machines on vans and drove around saying "xrays here, get yer free xrays", catching cases before people got sick. The guy who pioneered diagnosing TB with chest xrays? Alan Hart, who was a trans man. #EverythingIsTB

Always has been

Cory Booker mentioning drug resistant TB twice during his record breaking marathon speech? Congrats senator you're a TBFighter now

TBFighters haven't forgotten that it's still #TimeFor5. Danaher needs to produce their long-overdue audit. Can you believe we have been waiting for two occurrences of #WorldTBDay now?

Happy World TB Day. Grateful for all the work global TB Fighters pour into preventing this curable and preventable scourge. Together, we can end TB.

To mark #WorldTBDay2025 our working group member Dr. Kazi has published this op-ed highlighting the disastrous consequences of USAID cuts on the global fight to #EndTB. World leaders must act now to #CommitInvestDeliver! #FundingCutsCostLives www.context.news/money-power-...

It's #WorldTBDay. Let's remember that even before recent threats to #Tuberculosis funding, there was a funding gap for #TBdiagnosis, #TBtreatment, and #TBresearch. We must increase (not decrease) global health investments to fight this epidemic.

This #WorldTBDay, we stand in solidarity with the millions who are affected or lose their lives because of tuberculosis every year. The effort to #EndTB is urgent. Global health budgets are being cut around the world and TB rates right here in Canada are rising.

It's world TB day. The last two months have been a series of attacks on global health, infectious disease science and vulnerable populations. The damage will take decades to undo, and we are heading onto a steep global health disaster. We can't stay quiet. #tuberculosis #TB #WTBD2025

Today is #WorldTBDay! With the recent setbacks in the fight against TB, it's easy to forget the progress we've made as well, so we're here to remind you: hard work in community with others creates change and empowers progress. Let's celebrate these wins!

Spotted in line at @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social’s #EverythingIsTuberculosis book event in Indianapolis. I love nerdfighteria.

Check out this excellent review from longtime #Nerdfighter and TBFighter Hannah, who talks about why #EverythingIsTuberculosis isn't just Crash Course TB, it's about the treacherous things we believe about tuberculosis

The Gilded Age may have ended in the 1900s but consumption, more commonly known as #Tuberculosis, didn’t end in the past. In fact, TB is still the deadliest infectious disease in the world, even though it’s curable! #IDSky More TB myths: www.muellerhealthfoundation.org/knowledge/de...

On one hand, I desperately want people to understand that TB is not a disease of the past and take it seriously. On the other hand, I desperately need people to understand the Kansas TB outbreak is not the largest in the history of the US

Great thread. The UK and US have a lot in common here

We have a time slot every day this week plus one on Monday where we will all do our calls together! It's nice to briefly go over the things we're calling about together and then have a space for camaraderie. Please join if you want!

Good thread and article for TBFighters to read!

This 6-year project, was successful only because of decades of foundational, respectful, global collaboration, funded by many, including USG. Continued engagement by USG in global collaborations is essential to progress in health that benefits US & everywhere. #TBSky. Short video on endTB trial ⬇️.

Like phone calls and personalized emails, handwritten letters are a really powerful way to tell your Reps we need their help to #EndTB! Send them consistently in the lead-up to TB Hill Day to emphasize just how crucial funding is to end this inequity tbfighters.org/templates/hi...

We are blown away by the response to this post! There are #TBFighters from ALL FIFTY STATES who are committed to attending Hill Day — but many of them need financial help to make it there. Can you chip in to help make the biggest ever #Tuberculosis Hill Day happen? act.pih.org/tb-hill-day-...

#Tuberculosis: TB is one of the world’s biggest health crises affecting over 10 million people per year, including over 1 million children. And every three minutes, a child dies of TB. Learn how we are intervening: www.msf.org/tactic-tuber... #IDSky

You didn't hear it from me, but a little birdy told me we now have 50-state coverage, pending a few confirmations. See you all in April. 💪

Capping off the @tbfighters.org holiday album, 12 TBFighters got together to tell #Danaher it's #TimeFor5, in 4 part harmony. Let's hope Danaher sees the light and drops all GeneXpert prices in 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdcN...

Earnest post to end the year: I am constantly inspired by my fellow TBFighters and people everywhere doing the work to end this disease. I truly believe that in my lifetime we can end TB! Honored to be in this community and looking forward to what 2025 will bring. 💜

Gazoonkas...

Our newsletter just got a glow up! ✨ Check your inbox (incl the social and spam folders) to make sure you keep receiving our new and improved #TBFighters newsletter. If you'd like to start getting news about #Tuberculosis activism, now is a great time to sign up! newsletter.tbfighters.org/subscribe

Essential reading. Companies including #Gilead, #Otsuka, and #Danaher price gouge, evergreen, and use restrictive donation programs to score a profit at the expense of public health. We can end #HIV and #EndTB, but only if we hold these companies accountable.

Ha! I love this, Liz! #TBSky #NTM

Are you interested in joining a book club with a focus on #Tuberculosis? To create one we need your input! Please fill out this form to share your thoughts on the book club and let us know you'd like to be a part of it: forms.gle/vzKZSW2hTjoQ...

Cool study about detecting TB in people with HIV using Urine Xpert tests...if they were affordable this is what conversations could be like www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #TBSky

Apologies in advance to any TB scientists who see my next post...I hope you think it's funny but if you don't just know that I have a very deep respect for you and the work you do...

The hits just keep coming! GeneXpert can detect TB and RIF resistance in urine in people with HIV. This could be a huge step to #EndTB, if #Danaher would make GeneXpert accessible by lowering the price of their tests to $5. It's #TimeFor5

If google search had a Spotify-wrapped-style feature, one of my top trends would be searching "[thing] tuberculosis" Like this

The 2024 WHO Global TB Report was clear: TB care is massively underfunded. We need $22 billion a year to #EndTB, but we're only getting $5.7 billion. The #GlobalFund needs to be a leader and close the gap. TGF needs to treat TB as what it is - the deadliest infectious disease in the world. 1/

Unaffordable testing is exacerbating a range of health crises, including #mpox. It’s #Timefor5 on all Xpert tests!

TB is the deadliest infectious disease in the world! It is an urgent threat! It's not appropriate for only 18% Global Fund to be allocated to TB. If you agree, sign the petition: tb33.org/petition/ #TBSky

I hope that when the Global Fund board meets this week, they take the calls from the community about the disease split seriously. Info from StopTB here: www.stoptb.org/advocate-to-... #TBSky

The Global Fund board meets this week - when discussing disease split I hope they take NGO and advocate concerns seriously, and increase the share of funding allocated to TB. More info from StopTB: www.stoptb.org/advocate-to-... 18% is simply not enough for the world’s deadliest disease. #TBSky

Last day at the TB Union Conference, and as always, my biggest takeaway is learning from the experiences of TB champions who fought this battle firsthand and are now advocating for access for others. Salute to their heroism! 🙌🏽💪🏽 #TBUnion2024 #PeopleOverProfits #GlobalHealth #TBChampions

Always finding ways to drop TBFighters.org into the conversation too

I hope that when the Global Fund board meets this week, they take the calls from the community about the disease split seriously. Info from StopTB here: www.stoptb.org/advocate-to-... #TBSky

"Global funding for TB prevention and care decreased in 2023 from $6 billion... to $5.7 billion and remains far below the yearly target of $22 billion" Wealthy countries, especially the US, need to step up funding to end the world's deadliest infectious disease. #EndTB www.npr.org/sections/goa...

#tuberculosis once again taking the top spot