Fatoumatta Darboe
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Fatoumatta Darboe
@darboeniie.bsky.social
Staff scientist @ucsf. Former: postdoc @MRCG, PhD @Satviuct. Mother. interests: in TB, HIV, Immunology, pathogenesis
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Additional highlights from our UCSF World TB Day Symposium!

#WorldTBDay2025 #WorldTBDay #Tuberculosis #GotCurry #UCSFWorldTBDay #EndTB #TBSky #IDSky
March 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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13 chair positions open @inserm.fr to lead a junior research group in France covering #neuroscience, #immunology, #bioinformatics, #bioengineering, #biotherapy, #public health pro.inserm.fr/rubriques/co... 🧪🔬
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March 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Out today: The need to scale up community-wide screening for TB irrespective of symptoms, if we are serious about ending TB. ijidonline.com/article/S120... @mrcctu.bsky.social
Scaling-up symptom-agnostic, community-wide screening towards global tuberculosis elimination: opportunities, challenges and lessons from history
Globally in 2023, 8.2 million people with a new episode of tuberculosis (TB) were diagnosed and notified.[1] This is the highest number of TB notifications for a single year since the World Health Org...
ijidonline.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Today is the 24th of March and it's World TB Day. We typically have many activities to educate and raise awareness about TB and how important it is for us all to commit to doing more to end TB! This year feels different though.
March 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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It's #WorldTBDay.

To ensure quick diagnosis and early treatment, WHO recommends the use of rapid molecular #tuberculosis (TB) tests as the initial diagnostic test for all persons with signs and symptoms of TB.

Learn more about TB 👉 bit.ly/3yYNwzx #EndTB
March 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Happy World TB Day. Grateful for all the work global TB Fighters pour into preventing this curable and preventable scourge. Together, we can end TB.
March 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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When you mess with science, be prepared for a reaction! #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Our paper on a recently completed phase 2b clinical trial to assess whether H56:IC31 vaccination could protect against recurrent TB in patients who received TB treatment is out:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kj275E-Uo...
authors.elsevier.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Early reports to WHO from the 30 highest #tuberculosis (TB)-burden countries confirm that funding cuts from foreign aid, particularly from USAID, are already dismantling essential TB services.

Without urgent action, these setbacks will reverse decades of progress to #EndTB 🔗 bit.ly/4kvsu2i
March 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM