“A report by The Royal Society found academic visas were often rejected for “arbitrary& subjective” reasons. African nationals applying for a visitor’s visa–which scientists need to attend research conferences in the UK–were 3-4x more likely to be rejected than applicants in E Asia.”

URGENT - shocking destruction at this nature reserve on the outskirts of Blantyre 😥 These beautiful forests protect communities from devastating flooding & landslides. Once gone they can't be replaced 🌳🌳🌳 Share, sign chng.it/HjtNnVHF & donate tinyurl.com/4xnr48jj

⚠️REMINDER: last #TB journal club of 2023 *this Thursday* November 30th 1600 GMT/UK. Sean Wasserman chairing and Christopher Cousins presenting on the #RIFASHORT #RCT NEJM Evidence evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… - hope to see you there. DM for details, eepurl.com/hO4D79 to join📧list

Louder for those at the back 📢 Immigrants are the reason you *can* get an NHS appointment.

Thanks so much to Christopher Cousins & Sean Wasserman for signing off 2023 with an outstanding round-up of the #RIFASHORT #tuberculosis treatment-shortening trial NEJM Evidence evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… 👏 Great expert discussion including author Daniel Grint and others.

Celebrating wrapping up clinic recruitment with the fabulous #Timasamala team 🧁 🎉 Recruitment targets achieved despite unexpected challenges, overcome with creativity and amazing teamwork. Such a privilege to work with these colleagues 🔥 Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme Mphatso D.S. Phiri Peter MacPherson

Looking forward to 1st #TBJC of 2024 *TODAY* at 1600 UK. Adrian Martineau & Shruthi Chandran Queen Mary University of London presenting 🔥hot off the press🔥 thelancet.com/journals/lanmi… The Lancet Microbe Jee Whang Kim &al on PET-characterised early TB & circulating MTb DNA - see you for an amazing discussion!

Next JC on *March 7* (please note date change) - Prof Jayne Sutherland & London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine MRC-Gambia colleagues presenting on LauraOlbrich & al #RaPaedTB host-response cartridge for childhood TB diagnosis 🧒🩸 tinyurl.com/4z7vv4j9 The Lancet Infectious Diseases - see you there for a great discussion.

Really enjoyed working with Rachael Burke and a fabulous team on this systematic review exploring the reasons people disengage from ART care in LMICs (or rather, the ways in which ART care often doesn't meet the needs of people living with HIV).

Jasmin Paris Jasmin Paris finished loop five of the #BM100 in 59:58:21.

What's the epidemiology of #TB infection in adolescents & adults? No population data from Malawi, few in Africa, as TB/HIV burden changes. Very pleased to finish recruiting ~3,000 participants in Blantyre, Malawi yesterday, to answer ❓. #WorldTBDay2024 “Yes! We can end TB” 1/4

Can electronic medical monitoring improve outcomes for people w/ #tuberculosis? 📲💊🫁 Find out at #TB Journal Club *this Thurs 28th 4pm UK*. Host: UCL-TB MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, chair:Hanif Esmail, presenter:Deborah Bennet, paper:Xiaolin Wei &al recent The Lancet RCT tinyurl.com/599tzw9d

Every Global South researcher will connect with this story ‘Exhausted and insulted’: how harsh visa-application policies are hobbling global research nature.com/articles/d4158…

The frequency of use of the word "unqualified" in student reviews of women teaching engineering is so high compared to that for both men and women in other disciplines that it barely fits on the graph. Lads, do you really think unqualified women get to teach tech at universities?

Next JC *tomorrow* April 18th - Maddalena Cerrone from The Crick will be presenting on viable aerosolised Mtb vs. Xpert Ultra status in PTB in PNASNews. 🫁 Link here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38470917/ - see you there for a great discussion.

Delighted to kick-off the 2024 LSHTM TB Centre Centre #retreat in the spirit of #EquitablePartnerships, with simultaneous in-person satellite gathering & presentations London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in #London, MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM & MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, and other members remotely linked. Dr Sedona Sweeney Finn McQuaid

Next #TB JC - *this* Thurs 30th 1600 UK. @JayneEl20305490 & Liz Corbett from LSHTM TB Centre discuss Biewer &al PLOS Global Public Health 2024 tinyurl.com/5a8f4jmp Was CXR + CAD useful for triage/screening of hospital inpatients with ?#tuberculosis in Peru? 🇵🇪🏥 Join us to find out!

Hi ⁦IAS - the International AIDS Society⁩ Did we not experience this exact situation during the Montreal AIDS conference? Why are we not learning? Please pick safer venues for communities impacted by HIV! Visa disaster looming ahead of International AIDS Conf in Munich aidshilfe.de/meldung/visa-d…

Next #TBJC: Thurs 25 July at 4pm UK🕓, hosted by LSHTM TB Modelling Group Presenter: Alvaro Schwalb Chair: Katherine Horton Paper: tinyurl.com/3vereez9 RC Pivetta de Araujo / Leo Martinez &al: impact of mass #tuberculosis screening in prisons in Brazil 🇧🇷🫁 Jason Andrews Julio Croda, MD, PhD

It’s out!! Finally…. 😮‍💨 Adult TB prevalence survey with child MTB infection survey (using QFT) in Karachi 🇵🇰 It’s do-able - so let’s do it!! (📣 all funders) We really do need to understand MTB transmission in different contexts better to ✂️the 🔁 url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/aYhCCX5WOI0o…