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Rodrigo Henríquez

@rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social
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Physician and researcher. TB Unit @ITM Antwerp. Bridging clinical decision-making, primary care, health economics and global health. orcid.org/0000-0002-3094-4438

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EuroQol Research Foundation @euroqol.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
EQ-TIPS was developed to meet growing interest in evaluating the effectiveness & cost-effectiveness of treatments in very young children 👶 In this paper, @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social et al. examine issues in valuing the EQ-TIPS and possible adaptations to valuation methods 👉 bit.ly/4oxl4gF
Text: ‘Publication, Paper Tuesday - Valuing health states for infants and toddlers: challenges and methodological considerations in EQ-TIPS preferences elicitation. by Devlin, N. et al. (2025).' The background is a gradient blue with overlaid images of books and the world map.
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Rodrigo Henríquez @rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Una gran mejora, largamente esperada. Las nuevas funciones de edición de gráficos en el programa de análisis estadístico Jamovi impresionan gratamente. Jamovi se puede descargar e instalar gratis desde www.jamovi.org
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
"Non-White scientists endure longer waiting times between the submission and acceptance of their manuscripts, and upon publication, their papers receive fewer citations than would be expected based on textual similarity."
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Rodrigo Henríquez @rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Antwerp on a cloudy day. (📷Canon T70 - 🎞️Fujicolor 200) #filmisnotdead
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IAS - the International AIDS Society @iasociety.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
📰 Check out all the oral abstracts from #IAS2025 in the new Journal of the International AIDS Society IAS 2025 abstract supplement: bit.ly/JIAS2025
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
🇧🇷 #Tuberculosis “This study presents 👩🏽‍🦱Maria Ciência… The tool supports researchers in translating peer-reviewed scientific findings through simple prompts into accessible, ethically appropriate materials tailored for children, general public…” Preprint🔗⬇️ s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir....
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Maria Ciência: Application of Artificial Intelligence for Audience-Specific Health Communication and Knowledge Dissemination
Background: Scientific misinformation remains a major barrier to effective health communication. Bridging the gap between academic research and public understanding requires tools that simplify...
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Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp @itmantwerp.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
In the past week, 90 students have finished their studies at ITM, ready to take on global health challenges! To all our graduates: your hard work, resilience, and dedication have brought you here. You're not only graduating. You're joining a powerful global community of changemakers. #ITMAlumni
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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Important new @msfaccess.org report highlights how even EU countries lack appropriate access to #tuberculosis medicines💊. "Bridging the gap: Securing access to essential #TB medicines in the EU and EEA" msfaccess.org/bridging-gap... (other high-income countries like Canada face similar challenges)
Screenshot of the cover of the linked report.
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Max Gutierrez @maxgg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
💥 Very excited to share this review in Nature Reviews Microbiology. Contributing to this review with Val, Digby and Amy was an enlightening experience! Hope people in the community find it useful- we managed to cite around 200 papers... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis biology, pathogenicity and interaction with the host
Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Warner, Barczak, Gutierrez and Mizrahi explore essential aspects of Mycobacterium tuberculosis physiology and biology, present recent advances related...
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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
How do research careers compare across countries? New global database has some answers Online tool from the Research and Innovation Careers Observatory allows users to compare salary, typical career destinations, and more www.science.org/content/arti...
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How do research careers compare across countries? New global database has some answers
Online tool from the Research and Innovation Careers Observatory allows users to compare salary, typical career destinations, and more
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IAS - the International AIDS Society @iasociety.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🆕 Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) supplement, “PEP in Africa: prospects, opportunities and challenges”, just launched! 📰 Access all the articles for free now: zurl.co/MShcA
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Rodrigo Henríquez @rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Quality use of medicines is: 1) selecting wisely treatment options 2) choosing suitable medicines only if necessary 3) using medicines safely to get the best possible results 4) choosing only medicines that benefit the patient. But, how to teach QUM? www.racgp.org.au/afp/2017/mar...
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Teaching rational prescribing to general practice registrars: A guide for supervisors
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines. – Paracelsus…
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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The ethics of health research priority setting: A casebook www.who.int/publications...
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Rodrigo Henríquez @rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Productive informal meeting with CAD-LUS4TB colleagues at the EDCTP Forum! 🤝 Discussing our upcoming AI-powered TB diagnosis project with this amazing international team. Can't wait to start working together to improve TB care in sub-Saharan Africa using innovative lung ultrasound technology.
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Kim Stachenfeld, PhD @neurokim.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
New work on relational reasoning in transformers! TLDR: Inductive biases of In-Weight and In-Context Learning in transformers are really different for relational reasoning, and pretraining can make a big difference for in-context. Check out @jessegeerts.bsky.social's thread for more!
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Relational reasoning and inductive bias in transformers trained on a transitive inference task
Transformer-based models have demonstrated remarkable reasoning abilities, but the mechanisms underlying relational reasoning in different learning regimes remain poorly understood. In this work, we i...
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Tulio de Oliveira @tuliodna.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Well deserved outstanding team award to Zambart from Zambia #EDCTP2025
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Rodrigo Henríquez @rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
On my way to participate in the 12th EDCTP Forum 😀. If you're attending the forum, I'd love to connect! Feel free to reach out or stop by the session! #EDCTPForum #EDCTP2025 #GlobalHealth
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Rodrigo Henríquez @rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🧐Health effects of the Brazilian Conditional Cash Transfer programme over 20 years and projections to 2030: a retrospective analysis and modelling study - The Lancet Public Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Health effects of the Brazilian Conditional Cash Transfer programme over 20 years and projections to 2030: a retrospective analysis and modelling study
CCT programmes have strongly contributed to the reduction of morbidity and mortality in Brazil, having prevented millions of hospitalisations and deaths in the past two decades. During the current per...
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Rodrigo Henríquez @rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I'll be presenting at the 12th EDCTP Forum in Rwanda next week! "Collaborative training networks to build leadership for research excellence and biotech innovation in sub-Saharan Africa" - Innovations in capacity building parallel session. 📅 Tue, June 17th at 2:00 PM. More at: edctpforum.eu
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Better healththrough globalresearch partnerships
Global Health EDCTP3 and the EDCTP Association are delighted to invite you to participate in the Twelfth EDCTP Forum, a unique platform for policymakers,…
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Rodrigo Henríquez @rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Win some, lose some. Just got word that a proposal didn't make it through a competitive call 🫤. Always learning for next time!
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"Although the cause of the epidemic hasn’t been definitively determined, most scientists agree that, at least among sugar-cane workers, intense labour in extreme heat is one of the major drivers of this condition." #ClimateChangeAndHealth #OccupationalHealth
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How a mysterious epidemic of kidney disease is killing thousands of young men
Repeated damage from extreme heat over time seems to be a leading factor causing kidneys to fail.
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Rodrigo Henríquez @rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Antwerpen #filmisnotdead
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
“M. tuberculosis has evolved into an astonishingly adept human pathogen. And one of its greatest skills is its ability to fly through the air” @carlzimmer.com on why TB has killed millions over the ages www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
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TB's extraordinary evolution reveals why the ancient disease lives on
Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals why it's so hard to stamp out this ancient disease, writes Carl Zimmer
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Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Cracking the Cost Code: Why Transparency in TB is a Matter of Life and Death INSIDE VIEW - Farhat Mantoo & Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa Every year, 1.3 million people die of tuberculosis, making it the world’s deadliest infectious disease. LEARN MORE ⬇️ @msf.ca | #EndTB | #TBPRACTECAL | #MSF
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Cracking The Cost Code: Why Transparency In TB Is A Matter Of Life And Death - Health Policy Watch
This stands in stark contrast to the opaque norms of pharmaceutical research and development (R&D), where there is no transparency about what it costs to
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Rodrigo Henríquez @rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
New article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology led by our @itmantwerp.bsky.social statistician Bart KM Jacobs. We describe an extension of the Spiegelhalter-Knill-Jones method allowing the inclusion of continuous covariates. bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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An extension of the Spiegelhalter-Knill-Jones method for continuous covariates in clinical decision making - BMC Medical Research Methodology
Background There is still demand for algorithms that can be used at the point of care, especially when dealing with events that do not present with a single obvious clinical indicator. The Spiegelhalt...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"If scientists are more concerned about where the next grant is coming from than about figuring out first and foremost what issues to research to improve people’s lives, then this aim will remain a challenge to accomplish" www.medanthrotheory.org/mat/article/...
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Rodrigo Henríquez @rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Apply now to eSCREM – Protocol Development. Our 3 ECTS online short course from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp. 🗓️ Apply by: July, 1st!! 🔗 Apply here: www.itg.be/en/study/cou...
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Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde (ITG) in Antwerpen
Het ITG streeft naar de vooruitgang van wetenschap en gezondheid, met focus op onderzoek, onderwijs en professionele dienstverlening (hiv/soa en reisgeneeskunde).
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STITCHES Medicine - the Best of Medical Research @medicine.stitches.today · 01/06/2025
The study reveals significant gaps in the 2023 Essential Medicines List for cancer, highlighting the need for evaluating effective treatments. by Wilson BE, Wright K (...) Booth CM et 8 al. in J Natl Cancer Inst #MedSky 👉 get more here 📖 read the article:
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Analysis of 2023 World Health Organization cancer Essential Medicines List and concordance with resource stratified guidelines
AbstractBackground. The Essential Medicines List (EML) and Resource Stratified Guidelines (RSG) both prioritize high-value medicines. We compare the 2023 E
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Rodrigo Henríquez @rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
There's something magical about not knowing if you nailed the shot until you develop it. 📷Nikkormat EL + Kodak ColorPlus 200 #FilmIsNotDead
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Nature @nature.com · 30/05/2025
The further a researcher or inventor moves from their previous work, the less cited their latest work will be go.nature.com/44VjEW9
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Shifting research focus comes with the risk of reduced impact
An analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents shows that the further a researcher or inventor moves from their previous work, the less cited their latest work will be.
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 28/05/2025
Summary of findings tables present the key results of a systematic review. The latest article in the the Core GRADE series outlines how you should approach these summary of findings tables www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Example of table presenting the impact of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir on outcomes in patients with non-severe covid-19, with links to tools for shared decision making
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/05/2025
5 years since the start of the pandemic and it is frustrating that we still need to keep repeating: vaccines, masks, tests, and cleaning the air all play roles in reducing transmission. Wrongly claiming that any of these layers isn’t important is an anti-science stance.
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KNCV TB Plus | KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation @kncvtbplus.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🧪A recent study conducted in #Ethiopia and #Indonesia sheds light on the dx accuracy and usability of the VISITECT® CD4 Advanced Disease Assay in routine use. Insights: - ⬆️sensitivity (97.8%), and - a 10% ⬆️ in specificity when retraining providers (32.7% to 42.5%). #TBSky #TB #HIV #HIVSky
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VISITECT® CD4 advanced disease assay in routine use: Diagnostic accuracy and usability, Ethiopia and Indonesia
We assessed the diagnostic accuracy and usability of the rapid semiquantitative point of care VISITECT® CD4 Advanced Disease Assay, compared to routinely obtained CD4 counts among people living with ...
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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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WHO unveils new guideline to improve global access to controlled medicines
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a rapid communication outlining its comprehensive new guideline on balanced national policies for controlled medicines. The guideline’s recommendations...
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Rodrigo Henríquez @rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
A new report published by CIOMS provides insights into the methods used to evaluate the benefit-risk (BR) balance of a medicinal product. cioms.ch/publications...
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Benefit-Risk Balance for Medicinal Products • COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
This report provides insights into the methods used to evaluate the benefit-risk (BR) balance of a medicinal product. A favourable BR profile must be
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Jasmin Abdel Ghany @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program was central in improving the evidence base for health policies and interventions, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central & Southern Asia - figure by @aasli.bsky.social. Our preprint on the termination of the DHS Program: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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Countries Call For Enforcement Of Code On International Recruitment Of Health Workers - Health Policy Watch
Several countries at the World Health Assembly (WHA) called for enforcement clauses to be included in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) code on
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Rodrigo Henríquez @rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Bravo a OMS por el efecto mediático, pero continuamos la tradición de aplicar paños tibios. Seguimos implementando medidas que calman temporalmente pero no resuelven el problema de fondo: un genocidio en curso.
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Rodrigo Henríquez @rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This little Robin brings peace and beauty to my (self-imposed) busy days. This picture was taken yesterday at sundown.
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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
#MSF has begun a large-scale "test and treat' campaign for #HepatitisC in the Cox's Bazar refugee camps in Bangladesh, aiming to treat 30,000 people by the end of 2026. www.msf.org/msf-launches...
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MSF launches large hepatitis C campaign in Cox's Bazar refugee camps | MSF
We aim to reach 30,000 people with care for hepatitis C by the end of 2026.
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Peter MacPherson @petermacp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🎉New preprint led by Greta Wood🚨 Among ~2000 adults with #TB in 🇿🇦 #multimorbidity was extremely common (86%) and strongly predictive of death at 15 months Need for screening and management. 🧪🛟🦠 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @tomwingfield.bsky.social @uofgshw.bsky.social @lstmnews.bsky.social
Title and abstract page of the manuscriptBar graphs showing prevalence of TB multimorbidity, stratified by key variablesGraphs showing hazard of death among people with TB multimorbidity
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Rodrigo Henríquez @rodrigohenriquezbe.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Amanecimos con inversión térmica y la concentración respectiva de contaminantes en el aire 🫤. Un recordatorio de que estamos muy lejos de cumplir metas mínimas de calidad del ambiente.
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Health Economics @hec-wiley.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The Editorial Boards of leading health economics journals are issuing a Joint Statement of Principles on Editorial Independence. In these troubled times some scholars worry their work might suffer ideological attack. We reaffirm our commitment to unfettered scholarship. Please repost.
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Eurosurveillance journal @eurosurveillance.org · 21/05/2025
Working at the intersection of #evidence and policy? Check these 2 scoping reviews that explore the landscape of Evidence-to-Decision frameworks or structured tools designed to support evidence-informed decision-making in #PublicHealth 👉🏽 bit.ly/EUSscope1 👉🏽 bit.ly/EUSscope2 #IDSky #EpiSky 🦠🧪
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Frameworks to support evidence-informed decision-making in public health and infectious disease prevention and control: a scoping review
Background Evidence-informed public health decision-making (EIDM) is a complex process that must consider multiple factors. Aim We aimed to identify and describe existing frameworks supporting evidenc...
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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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A methodological review of patient healthcare-seeking journeys from symptom onset to receipt of care
Background For many diseases, early diagnosis and treatment are more cost-effective, reduce community spread of infectious diseases and result in better patient outcomes. However, healthcare-seeking a...
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Gabriela Arguedas @gabyarguedas.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Finally here! We have been working on this for three years. I feel the conversation is just starting.
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Nina Schwalbe, MPH, PhD @nschwalbe.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
💯 In a word? Adopted. 🦠 The Pandemic Treaty was just unanimously adopted by the World Health Assembly. 💊💉Bravo world. You did the right thing. apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf...
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Pablo Sciuto @pablosciuto.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Una playlist para recordar a José "Pepe" Mujica en canciones cercanas a su filosofía y visión de la vida. #JoseMujica #PepeMujica
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Pepe Mujica en Canciones
Playlist · Retrodelia · 94 items · 7 saves
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TB Alert @tb-alert.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
📢 #EUTestingWeek! Did you know TB can hide in your body for years without making you ill? 🗣️ If you have links to a country with high rates of TB or work in an occupation that increases your risk ask about a latent TB test. Prevention is better than cure. #LatentTB #Tuberculosis #eutestingweek
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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Wrote about Adriana Smith, who has been kept alive for months on a ventilator, brain dead, against her family's wishes—all because of Georgia's six-week abortion ban. www.thecut.com/article/adri...
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We’re Just Human Incubators to Them
Thirty-year-old Adriana Smith, who is brain dead, has been kept on a ventilator for months due to Georgia’s abortion ban.
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