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Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen @helenemari.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

WHO civil society task force on TB collaboration published in @plosglobalpublichealth.org : 🔥an urgent call to move away from a paternalistic focus on treatment observation, and focussing on policies that offer comprehensive support instead. 👀 journals.plos.org/globalpublic... #TBsky

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TB Proof @tbproof.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

In loving memory of Andile Madondile – a community leader who dedicated his life to raising awareness about TB & HIV. His passion lives on. Watch below to hear him speak about it. #EndTB

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

🆘🚨”South Africa is the beacon… We have many important collaborative works going on there…To cut them off, I just I don’t understand it. It’s self-destructive behavior.”- Dr. Harold Varmus, a professor of medicine at Cornell University, Nobel Prize in medicine #Tuberculosis #HIV 🧵↩️

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Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen @helenemari.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Invitation to a public @ox.ac.uk guest lecture on Politics and Global Health: The Need for a New, Resilient Architecture Delivered by Mitchell Warren, director of AVAC. Wednesday 30th April 2025, 15:30 - 16:30 UK time. More information and sign-up link here: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/events/view/...

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Politics and Global Health: The Need for a New, Resilient Architecture

Free online lecture with Mitchell Warren Recent, dramatic shifts in global health funding include cuts to US and UK foreign aid. This has had a cascade of devasting consequences on treatment and prev...

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Politics and Global Health: The Need for a New, Resilient Architecture

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TB Proof @tbproof.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🔔 YO, LISTEN UP! 🔔 Did you know TB is still a thing? Yup, and it’s serious. That’s why 24 March is World TB Day—to spread awareness and step up the fight against this disease! 🔥 Wanna win R1500 cash? 🔥 Deadline: 24 March @ MIDNIGHT. One lucky winner gets the cash! 💰⏳

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

How a WHO Staff Member Turned the US Withdrawal into an Act of Solidarity who.foundation/blogs-post/h...

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How a WHO Staff Member Turned the US Withdrawal into an Act of Solidarity

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Two wonderful global health scholars have made their global health books free to download Bravo and thanks @seyeabimbola.bsky.social and @thewrittenro.bsky.social The Foreign Gaze: www.editions.ird.fr/open_access_... Rethinking Global Health: taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

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Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen @helenemari.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Hallo BlueSky! I’m excited to join the #TBsky #IDsky conversation - sharing some insights from my PhD. I used social science methods to understand how we can prevent the spread of TB. Interested in how we can untangle stigma and mask-wearing? And what an exemplar case study shows? Read on!

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