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she/her Tuberculosis treatment and testing should not be a luxury
#TimeFor5
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TBFighters
about 2 months ago
We had such a great time at the US #TBHillDay in April we're taking it up north!šØš¦ Join us for the #LeadOnTB Advocacy Day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept 25, 2025:
bit.ly/LeadOnTB
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Shailly Gupta
about 2 months ago
The impact of USAID cuts is slowly but surely visible in many countries where we work. For eg: In Gambella, Ethiopia, funding cuts led to the suspension of nutrition services in 4 out of 7 refugee camps, leaving around 80,000 children under the age of 5 at risk of life-threatening malnutrition.
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Aid cuts threaten refugee lives in Gambella, Ethiopia | MSF
Significant aid cuts in Ethiopiaās Gambella region are threatening refugee lives, as basic services like food distribution, healthcare, clean water, and disease prevention rapidly deteriorate.
https://www.msf.org/aid-cuts-threaten-refugee-lives-gambella-ethiopia
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
2 months ago
TB is the # 1 infectious killer of humankind. We know how to control this disease, but have chosen not to. New books by
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
@vidyakrishnan.bsky.social
@mariasmilios.bsky.social
& Handaa Enkh-Amgalan bring fresh advocacy
communities.springernature.com/posts/tb-an-...
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Tuberculosis - new warriors take on an old enemy
TB has affected humans for centuries. In 2025, it is the number 1 infectious killer of humankind. We know how to control this disease, but have chosen not to. Four new books bring attention to this an...
https://communities.springernature.com/posts/tb-an-old-disease-gets-new-attention
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TBFighters
3 months ago
USAID prevented nearly 5 million deaths from TB in the last twenty years, according to analysis published in the Lancet. If these cuts remain, they estimate 14 million preventable deaths over the next five years:
www.nbcnews.com/heal...
Tell your senator to fight these cuts:
act.pih.org/global-h...
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USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say
An analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet projects that cuts to the agency will lead to more deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/usaid-cuts-lead-14-million-deaths-five-years-researchers-say-rcna216095
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TBFighters
3 months ago
Join tomorrow's LIVE town hall discussion to break down the rescissions package in the US Senate! We'll learn more about how this vote affects PEPFAR, public radio, and public broadcasting plus how we can fight back. Register now!
act.pih.org/defend-f...
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Register | Town Hall
Register now to receive a join link and invitation before the event begins
https://act.pih.org/defend-foreign-aid-event
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Beanedict Cumbfurbatch
3 months ago
Undoing progress through sudden tuberculosis funding cuts - The Lancet
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Undoing progress through sudden tuberculosis funding cuts
Tuberculosis remains the world's leading infectious killer, resulting in more than 1Ā·25 million deaths in 2023 alone.1 During the past decade, efforts to end tuberculosis have achieved important miles...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2825%2901328-5/fulltext
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Kate Marvel
3 months ago
This is theft, plain and simple. They stole this from you. Every deletion, every erasure, every website that goes dark is a crime against the American public
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John Watson
3 months ago
When I ran the TB service in Leeds, my colleagues used to joke that I thought "Everything is Tuberculosis" Not quite true - but I did encourage them to think of it, as it is easy to miss. This brilliant book highlights how many in the world don't have access to the resources I had.
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Partners In Health
4 months ago
What do foreign aid cuts mean for TB care? The U.S. has led the fight against TB for decades. Cutting aid now risks millions of lives. TB is curable. The crisis is political. Dr.
@cdmitpih.bsky.social
and Dr. Jen Furin break it down in this video. Watch and help fill the gap:
pih.org/fill-the-gap
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Beanedict Cumbfurbatch
4 months ago
When you have the ability to save lives and you withhold it until someone gives you a ridiculous amount of money, the resulting deaths are your choice. You are choosing to watch people die in the name of profit.
#PeopleOverProfits
, always.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
4 months ago
Gilead has announced that lenacapavir, the game-changing HIV prevention drug just approved by the FDA will cost $28,218 USD per person per year. Researchers say a generic version could be made for just $25 per person a year. Capitalism kills.
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TBFighters
4 months ago
Your representatives are waiting on YOUR call! š± There are two advocacy sessions almost every day this week! Find the one that fits your schedule best:
tbfighter.link/calendar
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TBFighters
4 months ago
Need help calling your representatives about the rescissions package? Join one of our advocacy sessions this week! These sessions are open to anyone as a space to get help contacting your representatives or get support doing other forms of advocacy.
tbfighter.link/calendar
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John Green
4 months ago
From a colleague. Keep calling! Itās working!!! āWeāre hearing that because enough moderate Republicans in the House are telling Speaker Johnson theyāre against PEPFAR cuts, the White House is going to amend the package. The pressure is working!!ā
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Beanedict Cumbfurbatch
4 months ago
Would you spend $20 to save a human life? What about $20 to save thousands of lives? What if I told you that if you pay US taxes, you already *have* paid this $20, but Trump doesnāt want it to be spent saving lives? Thatās exactly whatās happening with these rescissions:
youtu.be/oJW2iES4oPw?...
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The Bargain of a Lifetime
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
https://youtu.be/oJW2iES4oPw?si=_rkl2ChkhwPYwCKM
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Listen, I know people are upset that there won't be a
#RepTV
. But it's just because Taylor heard Reputation (Tuberculosis Version) and decided she couldn't top it.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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TBFighters
5 months ago
Need help writing an op-ed? Calling your elected officials? Finding resources for your TB project? Come to our #TBFighters advocacy sessions to find community and get help with whatever you're working on!
tbfighter.link/calendar
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TBFighters
5 months ago
The Senate TB Dear Colleague letter has to be signed by TOMORROW! Check on your senators using the
@resultsorg.bsky.social
spreadsheet and call them TODAY to tell them it's time to sign!
#TBSky
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
tbfighters.org/templates/de...
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TBFighters
5 months ago
#EITB
is only the beginning of our global health education! Next, we'll be reading
#PhantomPlague
by @VidyaKrishnan.bsky.social, a global health reporter who works and lives in India. Phantom Plague remembers Shreya Tripathi's story, as well as the global systems that cost her life.
#TBReaders
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TBFighters
5 months ago
Did you miss our #TBReaders live Q&A with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social? Watch the stream anytime you want at
www.youtube.com/watc...
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Live Q&A with John Green on Everything Is Tuberculosis ā TBReaders
Watch the live discussion where John Green will be answering questions submitted and voted on by you! Moderated by TBFighter Michelle (@llamadramarama) Join the discord: https://tbfighter.link/tbreaders-server Learn more about TBReaders and our next book, Phantom Plague: https://tbfighters.org/book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnbXE3a0NhM
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It's today!!
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Shailly Gupta
5 months ago
Itās simply unethical to leave so many trial participants hanging by pausing ongoing trials.
#TBSky
#IDSky
msfaccess.org/us-funding-c...
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Partners In Health
5 months ago
7/ Stay tuned for the last part of this series, which will examine how global debt affects Malawi's ability to fund its public health care system. Learn more:
www.pih.org/article/fina...
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Financing the Right to Health: How New York Law Aids Global Health Injustice
Predatory legislation enables private creditors to take advantage of countries with high burdens of debt.
https://www.pih.org/article/financing-health-new-york-law-global-debt-injustice
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TBFighters
5 months ago
There's still a week to ask your reps to sign onto the TB Dear Colleague letter in the House, and no Senate deadline yet! These bipartisan letters are an important way to get congresspeople to voice their support for TB and encourage others to do the same:
tbfighters.org/templ...
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Beanedict Cumbfurbatch
5 months ago
Itās true!
wtop.com/health-fitne...
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Author John Green ā and his fans ā want you to pay attention to tuberculosis - WTOP News
Author John Green wants people to know tuberculosis is both preventable and curable, but the infectious disease still claims 1.25 million lives every year.
https://wtop.com/health-fitness/2025/05/author-john-green-and-his-fans-want-you-to-pay-attention-to-tuberculosis/
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Cesar Ugarte-Gil
6 months ago
Of course we need to be clever how to spend the limited resources, but never lost the perspective: patients are persons with dreams and should be the center of care! We have the tools, and we know what we need to address as a society (social determinants), so we should be the cure!
#EndTB
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TBFighters
6 months ago
We are excited to announce that
#TBReaders
will be doing a live Q&A with Henry Reider and @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social on May 15th @ 12pm ET! This will be a fantastic opportunity to dive deeper into the themes and messages in
#EverythingIsTuberculosis
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TBFighters
6 months ago
Let's keep the #TBHillDay energy going! Join us in urging both the House and Senate to support the #Tuberculosis Dear Colleague Letter! Your rep's signature can make a big difference and help save lives. Contact them now!
tbfighters.org/templ...
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HELLody SchreiBOO
6 months ago
āI think probably most people werenāt aware of tuberculosis, but when they became aware of it, they became very angry, like I did.ā
notadoctor.news/2025/04/15/w...
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Why does John Green think everything is tuberculosis?
A resurgence of the deadliest infectious disease could be on the horizon. But increased funding could end it for good. I wrote recently for the Guardian about TBFighters, a group of people who are ā¦
https://notadoctor.news/2025/04/15/why-does-john-green-think-everything-is-tuberculosis/
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Beanedict Cumbfurbatch
6 months ago
Itās never a good time to cut funding
#tuberculosis
research, but this moment, when cases are rising right here in Massachusetts, when weāre so close to breakthroughs that could help us
#EndTB
faster, is a particularly bad time:
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...
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Leading Harvard scientist ordered to halt research in funding freeze - The Boston Globe
Researchers may have to kill macaques, a kind of primate used in a vaccine study, due to the order.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/metro/harvard-scientist-funding-freeze/
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TBFighters
6 months ago
We know how to
#EndTB
. It's not a testing or treatment problem, we just need "a little f**king money." Around 250 people joined us at
#TBHillDay
to advocate for just that! This is only the beginning. We'll see you again next year, DC š«”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Tuberculosis could end if thereās 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
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/12/tuberculosis-public-health-funding-us
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Carole Mitnick
6 months ago
Couldnāt happen to a ānicerā guy. how does 1 human have $31 billion to lose? 1.3 million deaths GLOBALLY could be prevented each year w/this amount of $. It could fund ALL TB R&D for 6 years, saving 10s of millions of lives across generations to come.
#TBhillday
#TBsky
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TBFighters
6 months ago
TBFighters went to Danaher's door today with a simple message: it's
#TimeFor5
, to release their audit, and put
#PeopleOverProfits
. If 600 emails in one day aren't enough to make our voices heard, we'll just keep shouting louder!
tbfighters.org/action
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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
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TBFighters
6 months ago
Think #Tuberculosis canāt happen where you live? Think again! Tuberculosis can infect anyone, regardless of location or socioeconomic status. #GlobalHealth
www.muellerhealthfou...
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Quinn (YummyOreo)
6 months ago
In case you missed it,
@tbfighters.org
released a new website about USAID being dismantled and what you can do to stop it. Go check it out:
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Learn more about the foreign aid cuts and how to take action against them!
https://tbfighters.org/funding-cuts/
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Partners In Health
6 months ago
Testing. Treatment. Advocacy. We are proving that TB can be beaten, but it takes all of us to drive change šŖ Letās fight for a world where no one dies from a preventable disease. Click here to learn more about TB by downloading our advocacy guide:
act.pih.org/tb
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Beanedict Cumbfurbatch
6 months ago
Wasnāt there supposed to be some audit that supposedly happened to show how much they actually cost to make? Whereās the evidence, Danaher? Itās
#TimeFor5
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why did I just learn today that Hello Kitty is a TBFighter
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it is false to suggest, as some recently have, that Everything Is TB is a pivot away from sensitive teens, as it centers around sensitive teen Henry Reider. The real pivot was The Anthropocene Reviewed, which centered around sensitive adult John Green
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7 months ago
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š«” pretty nice tbfighting outfit if you ask me Congress needs to stop the cuts to NIH and fight for more TB research funding!
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7 months ago
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7 months ago
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
7 months ago
This
#WorldTBDay
, Doctors Without Borders calls for urgent, sustained funding to end
#Tuberculosis
(TB) in children. Every year, 1.25 million children get TB, but ONLY HALF are diagnosed and treated. Funding cuts are threatening vital care, putting children at even greater risk.
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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?
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It's
#WorldTBDay
2025, and
#Danaher
is still price gouging for TB-RIF and XDR-TB tests. Now, more than ever, corporations need to sell their tests and medicines at a fair price so we can finally
#EndTB
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Alissa Rothchild
7 months ago
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.
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Partners In Health
7 months ago
(š§µ) In honor of
#WorldTBDay
, we're sharing recommendations from PIHers on what to read about
#tuberculosis
. These books highlight the urgent fight against TBāthrough history, research, and the voices of those affected. Follow the thread to check out some of these recommendations š
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Forget girl math, the real clown here is America math. Make this make sense: For $200 million, you can either have: 10 hit-or-miss episodes of
#Severance
-or- 67 million tuberculosis tests, if
#Danaher
actually sold them at cost -or- pay off the entire national debt of Sierra Leone
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