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@johngreen
@JNJNews
We
@StopTB
want to thank you
@JohnGreen
for the visibility you’ve brought to this important issue, to
@JnJnews
for making bedaquiline available to all those who need it, and to everyone who spoke up in support of our goal to
#EndTB
by 2030
@johngreen
We
@StopTB
want to thank you
@JohnGreen
for the visibility you’ve brought to this important issue, to
@JnJnews
for making bedaquiline available to all those who need it, and to everyone who spoke up in support of our goal to
#EndTB
by 2030
It’s official - The
@UN
member states have adopted the new political declaration on TB. This is a big milestone for the TB community across the world and it will be the roadmap to
#endTB
.
#UNGA78
#UNGA
#2023TBHLM
Breaking news! Global Fund, Stop TB Partnership and USAID Announce New Collaboration with Danaher to Reduce Price and Increase Access to Cepheid’s TB Test
Five million additional tests can be procured with this lower price.
For more information:
📢BREAKING NEWS!
@StopTB
’s Global Drug Facility Announces Historic Price Reductions up to 55% for Bedaquiline, a Life-Saving Drug to Treat Drug-Resistant TB👉
#endTB
The $5 ask is more than fair and could be even lower... Stop TB is committed to driving down cost,- says
@LucicaDitiu
, Executive Director of Stop TB, on the matter of
@CepheidNews
's price of its tuberculosis test, GeneXpert. Read here:
via
@statnews
Nurses are the heroes at the center of the fight against any infectious disease,
#TB
or
#COVID19
. This
#InternationalNursesDay
, we
@StopTB
recognise, celebrate, applaud, (and soon reward) nurses all over the world for risking their lives everyday to keep us all healthy.
✏️Banksy
Today is
#WorldTBDay
. Around the world, 3 people die from TB every minute! The Stop TB Partnership unites to raise public awareness of the devastating health, social, & economic impacts of TB & call for an end to this epidemic.
⏰
#TheClockIsTicking
#EndTB
Congratulations to our TB ambassador
@TamarynGreen
on becoming a doctor 👏🎉. You have been an incredible support in helping us raise TB awareness and we wish you the very best for your new endeavours!
Looking forward to engaging with our TB Ambassador
@BebeCoolUG
at the Tuberculosis (TB) Reach Grantee Meeting in Ho Cho Minh City,
#Vietnam
.
Together we will fight harder and smarter to
#EndTB
Photo:
@AmberHeartFoun1
Today marks 50 days to go until the 22 September UN-High-Level Meeting on
#Tuberculosis
! Join us in calling on all political leaders – Heads of State, Ministers of Health, and others, to attend and move from words to action by pledging new TB commitments at the meeting to
#endTB
Driving visionary political leadership is the need of the hour, we
@StopTB
are pleased to welcome
@drharshvardhan
, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India, as new Chair of the Stop TB Partnership Board.
@MoHFW_INDIA
@DrHVoffice
Nelson Mandela, who survived TB in prison, devoted much of his time campaigning for people with
#TB
&
#HIV
. As the world celebrates his life, we remember him through his inspiring words -
#Health
cannot be a question of income; it is a fundamental
#HumanRight
.
#MadelaDay
#EndTB
At the launch of the
@WHO
Global TB Report 2021,
@StopTB
expresses grave concern over the Report findings and calls for increased funding and focus on saving the lives of millions of people with TB.
📌📄Full report:
#EndTB
“Your Declaration will make a difference only if it is backed by actions. People affected by TB have a burning desire to shake the status quo. Esteemed leaders, I can’t hear you today, but I’ll make sure you hear me – loud & clear.”
@nandita_venky
#UNHLMTB
Love is in the air, but do we care enough? It’s ValenTIME to make a long-term commitment to the people affected by TB who need our efforts more than ever. Let’s
#EndTB
@LucicaDitiu
@SahuSuvanand
The first ever United Nations High Level Meeting on
#tuberculosis
will take place on 26 September, 2018. Now is the time to get your facts right!!
#UNHLMTB
#EndTB
Learn more on our dedicated
#UNHLMTB
web page:
INVEST TO END TB. SAVE LIVES.
Around the world, 4100 people die every day, from a preventable and curable disease - TB. This
#WorldTBDay
we call everyone to invest, love, care, resources & funding to
#endTB
.
Watch our
#InvestToEndTB
video📺👇
"Protecting the rights of people affected by TB is a legal & moral imperative. That’s why we see universal health coverage as the best link with that."
@DrTedros
DG of
@WHO
at the Launch of the Declaration of the rights of people affected by TB. Geneva.
Great news👏
@WHO
recommends rapid molecular tests (Xpert & Trunat) as initial test for TB, replacing smear microscopy & detecting rifampicin resistance. Urgent need to update national policies & ensure access for all to these tests!
👉
It's time to
#EndTB
We are back in office! With
#Geneva
slowing opening, a group from the
@StopTB
began working from office today. We are following all social distancing and hygiene measures as we start working in the "new normal" environment.
Say hello to our colleagues👋🏾🙂
📢It's Official! We are happy to announce the theme for 2022
#WorldTBDay
: “
#InvestToEndTB
. Save Lives.”
The low levels of funding for the TB response year after year cannot continue nor be accepted anymore. Here's what you have to do👉
#EndTB
Congratulations to
#ParasiteMovie
on winning the
#GoldenGlobes
for Best Motion Picture-Foreign Language 👏🏽.Thoughtful way for Dir. Bong Joon Ho to show the impact TB stigma has on people. Pop culture like this is great in helping raise awareness about this deadly disease.
#EndTB
Amazing news – the Political Declaration on
#Tuberculosis
agreed at the
#2023TBHLM
has been adopted by the UN General Assembly in New York. See the full resolution endorsing the Declaration here: . The final Declaration will be available shortly.
#endtb
"Effective and safe vaccines against all forms of TB are our best hope of ending the global tuberculosis epidemic. But public funding for
#TBvax
research remains inadequate and industry engagement is low." ~
@DrTedros
, Director General,
@WHO
#6GFTB
#InvestToEndTB
Detecting TB faster and better!
#Uganda
is bringing TB detection closer to the point-of-care with the instalment of 38 new Truenat rapid molecular testing systems provided by the Stop TB/
@USAID
New Tools Project.
@IDDS_Project
@USAIDGH
#EndTB
📢 JUST ANNOUNCED: The theme for
#WTBD23
is
#YesWeCanEndTB
This year is critical for all of us engaged in
#Tuberculosis
#TB
work & should be championed as ‘year of hope’ to get full support, attention and energy for a collective ‘YES! We can End TB’
➡️
“With the world regaining strength as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, ending TB as a global health threat is a critically important goal ”
@LucicaDitiu
at
#WorldTBDay2023
press conference in Varanasi
📢News alert!
@WHO
launched its Global TB Report 2020, but the findings give no cause for celebration. TB remains the biggest infectious disease killer for the ninth year in a row, with 1.4 million deaths in 2019. It’s time to act and fast!
📌
#EndTB
A new experimental antibiotic for tuberculosis has been shown to be more effective against TB than isoniazid, a decades-old drug which is currently one of the standard treatments.
Global Health and Business Leaders Pledge Major Commitments to End Tuberculosis. Read our News Alert from the
#TBInnovation
Summit NOW:
#UNHLMTB
#EndTB
Today
@StopTB
announced the 2019 World TB Day theme after consultation with our partners. The theme is "IT'S TIME!"
World TB Day is our biggest opportunity to raise international attention on the
#1
infectious disease killer & we hope you will join the fight to
#EndTB
Exciting collaboration! State Minister of Finance, Kozo Akino
#Japan
, teams up with
@LucicaDitiu
@StopTB
to fight for access to
#HealthForAll
people with TB. Together, they're tackling antimicrobial resistance
#AMR
with a central focus on drug-resistant TB. Stay tuned🙌
#endTB
Close to 600 people living with HIV die from TB every day, yet most of these deaths could be prevented. We must improve access to diagnosis, treatment & prevention for all & increase investments to
#EndInequalities
that drive TB, AIDS & other pandemics.
#WorldAIDSDay
📢WORLD TB DAY CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED
The Clock Is Ticking ⏰ and the official countdown for World Tuberculosis Day 2021 officially begins!
⏰👉Join the campaign
#WorldTBDay
#TheClockIsTicking
#TBTargets2022
Are you actively involved in the fight against TB? Are you an expert in global health and/or development with experience in TB programming? We want you for our TB REACH Wave 7 Proposal Review Committee. Review qualifications and apply here -
TB is a different scientific challenge. Where there's a will, there's a way. We need your support to: 1) Follow through on political commitments 2) To close the funding gap of US $22 billion 3) Mobilize the scientific resources to develop new
#TBvaccine
-
@DrTedros
@WHO
#EndTB
The first ever United Nations High Level Meeting on
#tuberculosis
will take place on 26 September, 2018. Now is the time to get your facts right!!
#UNHLMTB
#EndTB
Learn more on our dedicated
#UNHLMTB
web page:
October and November are considered
#LungMonth
🫁 in various countries 🌏
We launched a campaign on
#tuberculosis
awareness with New York's
@MTA
buses for the whole month
See any of these buses in
#NewYork
? Help us
#EndTB
by posting it on your socials and tag us
@StopTB
! 📸
Years of under-investment made
#tuberculosis
and its drug resistant forms the biggest infectious disease killer with over 4000 deaths per day. We can’t afford to repeat these mistakes and be unprepared for pandemics like
#COVID19
.
#EndTB
#ItsTimeToEndTB
#FightCOVID19
It’s possible to end TB in the next 9 years. But we need a new
#TBVaccine
.
As we mark the 100-year anniversary of the BCG vaccine, we call on leaders to fund TB vaccine research and development so we can
#EndTB
by 2030.
Despite being curable,
#TB
is still the world’s leading
infectious killer. Wanted:Leaders for a TB-free world. You can make history.
#EndTB
@WHO
@LucicaDitiu
One person with active, untreated
#TB
can spread the disease to 10-15 people in one year. As resources are diverted to fight
#COVID19
, more of these “missing” people go undetected and untreated. Unacceptable! This
#WorldTBDay
let's
#FightForWhatCounts
and
#InvestToEndTB
Deaths from drug-resistant tuberculosis account for about one-third of all antimicrobial resistance deaths worldwide. It's important to continue and complete TB treatment to prevent drug resistance.
#WAAW2021
#WAAW
@WHO
#WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek
"Drug resistance in
#TB
counts for about a third of deaths from
#AMR
at the moment, costing the global economy about $17 trillion." - Prof Dame Sally Davies, UK Chief Medical Officer, speaks at the Global Health Campus,
#Geneva
.
@CMO_England
@StopTB
#EndTB
"Tuberculosis knows no borders..I keep telling everyone, you can eat healthy, you can be vegan or vegetarian. You can run, use a condom & sleep under a bed net. But so long as you breathe, you can still catch
#TB
” -
@LucicaDitiu
to
@TIME
Magazine
Read:
No roads, no radiologist, no facilities, no electricity? No problem! With ultra-portable X-ray & AI,
#TBREACH
supported
@health_janna
deliver community-based state of the art TB diagnostics to nomadic pastoral populations in Nigeria. 👉Read
@BioMedCentral
Now we know that a 4 months TB treatment regimen works 🙌
4-month rifapentine-based regimen containing moxifloxacin may allow for a shorter course in patients with drug-susceptible pulmonary
#tuberculosis
, new study reveals. Read here:
@NEJM
Great visibility by
@johngreen
to the drug-resistant TB situation. We need accessible medicines at fair prices. Let's work together to ensure affordable healthcare for all.
#endTB
I HAVE RETURNED TO MAIN because I am FURIOUS that
@JNJGlobalHealth
is preventing millions from accessing life-saving treatment with bedaquiline, thereby costing innumerable lives and increasing the global risk of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
Remembering the iconic Vivien Leigh who starred in classics like 'Gone With the Wind' & 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. She died of
#tuberculosis
today in 1967.
TB does not discriminate between rich, poor, famous or unknown, it's infectious but curable. Let's work together to
#EndTB
There's only 1 vaccine for TB, it’s 100 years old, and it doesn’t work in adults. Two years ago, at the
@UN
, world leaders promised a new TB vaccine ASAP. There’s no time to waste if we want to reach the
#TBTargets2022
.
#TheClockIsTicking
#WorldTBDay
Support millions of people affected by TB with a Time selfie! Step 1: Take a photo with a watch or clock. Step 2: Upload to social media with:
#ItsTimetoEndTB
Step 3: Share!!!!!
To ensure
#TB
-affected community and civil society have space to strategize and coordinate,
#StopTB
facilite a delegations meeting in advance of the Board Meeting. It results in a joint delegation statement and several targeted interventions.
#YesWeCanEndTB
We
@StopTB
have a dedicated page to address
#TB
&
#COVID19
👉🏾
Each day we'll share an amazing example from countries' efforts to fight pandemics. Check out
#India
's guidelines on clinical management of COVID19
#EndTB
#FightCOVID19
Our World TB Day 2024 Campaign Toolkit has launched! Get involved and join the campaign ahead of World TB Day on March 24th to collectively say ‘Yes! We Can End TB!’ View the toolkit here
#YesWeCanEndTB
#endtb
“TB knows no borders... I keep telling everyone, you can eat healthy, you can be vegan or vegetarian. You can run, you can use a condom, and you can sleep under a bed net. But so long as you breathe, you can still catch TB.”-
@LucicaDitiu
,
@StopTB
@TIME
A lot has changed since the BCG vaccine 💊💉 was given to the first child in 1921. We’ve seen numerous new innovations in those 100 years, but only one approved TB vaccine —and it only protects children. To
#EndTB
for all, we need a new
#TBVaccine
💊
📌
"Nobody writes about TB. Nobody knows in the year 2019 TB kills more people than HIV and Malaria combined. It’s a crime. The media has a crucial role to play in bringing attention to this."
@StopTB
ED Dr. Lucica Ditiu at the
@UnionConference
press conference
#EndTB
@LucicaDitiu
To the entire TB community - let’s make 2020 the year in which ALL people with TB are diagnosed with a rapid molecular test! Now that
@MolbioDx
's TrueNat has been recommended by
@WHO
it’s actually feasible! Let’s do it!
@GlobalFund
,
@USAIDGH
JUST IN: At
#UNHLMTB
,
#Canada
just announced that
@StopTB
TB REACH Wave 7 will launch in early 2019 & focus on empowering women & girls to address the many social & developmental barriers to improving TB detection & treatment.
#EndTB
If we
#EndMalaria
, we also build country capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to future pandemics 🦠. On
#WorldMalariaDay
, we're demanding more investment 📈💵 to
#EndMalaria
and achieve a more equitable world 👐
We are proud to announce that H.E. Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa and H.E. Mr. Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, are the first Heads of State to commit to attending the
#UNHLMTB
on September 26th!
Read more here:
Congratulations to
@Winnie_Byanyima
on your appointment as Executive Director of
@UNAIDS
. We
@stoptb
and the TB community look forward to working in partnership with the AIDS community to make
#AIDS
and
#TB
history by 2030! As you said on ending TB: “It’s entirely achievable.”
"Grassroots communities & TB survivors are perfect sources of feedback about care & compelling experiences from the field. Yet they don't have the money to create the platform to get heard. Invest in them!"
@paimadhu
at the
@StopTB
Board Meeting