TBFighters
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A collective committed to fighting the structural causes of #tuberculosis (TB). TBFighters lead by following and act with compassion! #TimeFor5 TBFighters.org
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Hey #TBFighters! Did you know we have a feed to help you keep up to date on everything tuberculosis? #TBSky
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We're still Looking For Alaska (and Arkansas, Hawaii, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia, & Wyoming) to join us this year at #TBHillDay 2026! tbfighters.org/hill-day/
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
We're still Looking For Alaska (and Arkansas, Hawaii, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia, & Wyoming) to join us this year at #TBHillDay 2026! tbfighters.org/hill-day/
#Tuberculosis kills 1.25 million people every year. This isn't because we can't cure it—it's because we let it kill. That's why we're going to DC to advocate for funding. Want to support #TBHillDay 2026? You can donate to help survivors, advocates, and experts get to DC: act.pih.org/tb-hill-...
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
#Tuberculosis kills 1.25 million people every year. This isn't because we can't cure it—it's because we let it kill. That's why we're going to DC to advocate for funding. Want to support #TBHillDay 2026? You can donate to help survivors, advocates, and experts get to DC: act.pih.org/tb-hill-...
A recurring theme we see in The Black Angels is nurses, especially black nurses, not being allowed to speak their minds, even when it was in the best interest of their patients. #TBReaders
November 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A recurring theme we see in The Black Angels is nurses, especially black nurses, not being allowed to speak their minds, even when it was in the best interest of their patients. #TBReaders
Starting soon!
Thinking about attending #TBHillDay 2026? Join us this Sunday at 3 ET/12 PT for a kickoff stream! @PIH.org's Rosie Poling will explain what's going on in the advocacy world and why you should come to Hill Day. Plus, ask questions and get hyped with fellow TB haters! georgetown.zoom.us/j...
November 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Starting soon!
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Thinking about attending #TBHillDay 2026? Join us this Sunday at 3 ET/12 PT for a kickoff stream! @PIH.org's Rosie Poling will explain what's going on in the advocacy world and why you should come to Hill Day. Plus, ask questions and get hyped with fellow TB haters! georgetown.zoom.us/j...
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Thinking about attending #TBHillDay 2026? Join us this Sunday at 3 ET/12 PT for a kickoff stream! @PIH.org's Rosie Poling will explain what's going on in the advocacy world and why you should come to Hill Day. Plus, ask questions and get hyped with fellow TB haters! georgetown.zoom.us/j...
The #TBHillDay 2026 application has been open for less than a week, and already ONE HUNDRED people have signed up! Now's your chance to join @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social and a couple hundred of your closest #Tuberculosis fighting friends in Washington DC to fight worldsuck! tbfighters.org/hill-...
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The #TBHillDay 2026 application has been open for less than a week, and already ONE HUNDRED people have signed up! Now's your chance to join @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social and a couple hundred of your closest #Tuberculosis fighting friends in Washington DC to fight worldsuck! tbfighters.org/hill-...
Chapter 4 of The Black Angels accounts how poverty and overcrowding led to higher rates of disease and death in the Black neighborhoods of Harlem. How are these the result of human choices and human-built systems? #TBReaders
November 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Chapter 4 of The Black Angels accounts how poverty and overcrowding led to higher rates of disease and death in the Black neighborhoods of Harlem. How are these the result of human choices and human-built systems? #TBReaders
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#TBHillDay 2025 is probably the best thing I’ve ever done. Now’s your chance to get in on the action!
Get ready TB Haters: the #TBHillDay 2026 application is open now! In 2025, over two hundred TB survivors, experts, and advocates traveled to Washington DC to advocate for #Tuberculosis funding. Join us March 2-3, 2026 to do it again: tbfighters.org/hill-day
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#TBHillDay 2025 is probably the best thing I’ve ever done. Now’s your chance to get in on the action!
Happening tomorrow! www.youtube.com/live/XBqQUT1...
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Happening tomorrow! www.youtube.com/live/XBqQUT1...
Thinking about attending #TBHillDay 2026? Join us this Sunday at 3 ET/12 PT for a kickoff stream! @PIH.org's Rosie Poling will explain what's going on in the advocacy world and why you should come to Hill Day. Plus, ask questions and get hyped with fellow TB haters! georgetown.zoom.us/j...
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Thinking about attending #TBHillDay 2026? Join us this Sunday at 3 ET/12 PT for a kickoff stream! @PIH.org's Rosie Poling will explain what's going on in the advocacy world and why you should come to Hill Day. Plus, ask questions and get hyped with fellow TB haters! georgetown.zoom.us/j...
Get ready TB Haters: the #TBHillDay 2026 application is open now! In 2025, over two hundred TB survivors, experts, and advocates traveled to Washington DC to advocate for #Tuberculosis funding. Join us March 2-3, 2026 to do it again: tbfighters.org/hill-day
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Get ready TB Haters: the #TBHillDay 2026 application is open now! In 2025, over two hundred TB survivors, experts, and advocates traveled to Washington DC to advocate for #Tuberculosis funding. Join us March 2-3, 2026 to do it again: tbfighters.org/hill-day
Have you missed any of our live streamed discussions with #Tuberculosis doctors, experts, and authors? All past TB Ed Talks and #TBReaders streams are available to watch any time on our Youtube channel!
🎙️TB Ed Talks: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
📚TBReaders: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
🎙️TB Ed Talks: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
📚TBReaders: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Have you missed any of our live streamed discussions with #Tuberculosis doctors, experts, and authors? All past TB Ed Talks and #TBReaders streams are available to watch any time on our Youtube channel!
🎙️TB Ed Talks: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
📚TBReaders: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
🎙️TB Ed Talks: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
📚TBReaders: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
"Black nurses could work only in Black hospitals, and in the late 1920s, America registered 210 Black hospitals, compared with 6,807 white ones." With disparities this dramatic, it's no wonder many had doubts about hospitals, but dedicated advocates like Edna show how to meet people where they're at
November 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"Black nurses could work only in Black hospitals, and in the late 1920s, America registered 210 Black hospitals, compared with 6,807 white ones." With disparities this dramatic, it's no wonder many had doubts about hospitals, but dedicated advocates like Edna show how to meet people where they're at
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Canada must get back on track, because aid is a smart investment in our future.
Contact your MP ASAP to tell them:
👉 you are disappointed
👉 despite the cuts, Canada must make an ambitious pledge the Global Fund to help #WinTheFight against AIDS, TB, and malaria
Contact your MP ASAP to tell them:
👉 you are disappointed
👉 despite the cuts, Canada must make an ambitious pledge the Global Fund to help #WinTheFight against AIDS, TB, and malaria
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Canada must get back on track, because aid is a smart investment in our future.
Contact your MP ASAP to tell them:
👉 you are disappointed
👉 despite the cuts, Canada must make an ambitious pledge the Global Fund to help #WinTheFight against AIDS, TB, and malaria
Contact your MP ASAP to tell them:
👉 you are disappointed
👉 despite the cuts, Canada must make an ambitious pledge the Global Fund to help #WinTheFight against AIDS, TB, and malaria
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#Budget2025 is disappointing ☹️ The short-sighted cut of $2.7 billion over 4 years to international assistance breaks Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social’s campaign promise that his government “will not cut foreign aid” 🌍
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
#Budget2025 is disappointing ☹️ The short-sighted cut of $2.7 billion over 4 years to international assistance breaks Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social’s campaign promise that his government “will not cut foreign aid” 🌍
"When we talk about 'funding gaps', we're talking about over a million people dying needlessly each year of TB." Hear about @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's trip to the Philippines, #Tuberculosis as a path into a larger obsession, & what #GlobalHealth funding gaps really mean
The Real Question
In which John discusses what he learned on his visit to the Philippines, and why he's more worried than ever. Join our fight against TB: http://tbfighters.org
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November 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"When we talk about 'funding gaps', we're talking about over a million people dying needlessly each year of TB." Hear about @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's trip to the Philippines, #Tuberculosis as a path into a larger obsession, & what #GlobalHealth funding gaps really mean
The beginning of The Black Angels introduces us to the story and accomplishments of the African American nurses at Sea View Hospital on Staten Island. For decades, much of their story was preserved by word of mouth, not archived or written about. #TBReaders
November 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The beginning of The Black Angels introduces us to the story and accomplishments of the African American nurses at Sea View Hospital on Staten Island. For decades, much of their story was preserved by word of mouth, not archived or written about. #TBReaders
Lesotho was on track to meet UNAIDS' goal of ending the #AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030. Until it lost 23% of #PEPFAR funds. Now, community clinics are closed and patients don't have access to treatment:
In Lesotho, US aid cuts leave people living with HIV in limbo | AP News
Lesotho, once with the world’s second-highest HIV rate, faces a health crisis as U.S. aid cuts dismantle vital HIV treatment programs, leaving patients without care.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The process of finding a TB treatment regimen that works can be a difficult ordeal. Masla's poem Letter From My Left Arm was a "way of accounting [her] efforts to death." Watch the whole #TBReaders livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xx1...
#Tuberculosis #Poetry
#Tuberculosis #Poetry
November 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The process of finding a TB treatment regimen that works can be a difficult ordeal. Masla's poem Letter From My Left Arm was a "way of accounting [her] efforts to death." Watch the whole #TBReaders livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xx1...
#Tuberculosis #Poetry
#Tuberculosis #Poetry
#TBReaders Book Club had an amazing time reading The Underdream by Aiyana Masla. Want to be a part of our next read? Join our Book Club discord server here: tbfighter.link/tbrea...
Shoutout to AngienessNotFound for the picture!
Shoutout to AngienessNotFound for the picture!
October 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
#TBReaders Book Club had an amazing time reading The Underdream by Aiyana Masla. Want to be a part of our next read? Join our Book Club discord server here: tbfighter.link/tbrea...
Shoutout to AngienessNotFound for the picture!
Shoutout to AngienessNotFound for the picture!
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I’m moderating a panel of TB experts on the vlogbrothers youtube channel! Tune in on November 13th at 9 am EST.
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I’m moderating a panel of TB experts on the vlogbrothers youtube channel! Tune in on November 13th at 9 am EST.
Not infectious ≠ not affected! Check out our latest TB Ed Talk with Dr. Carole Mitnick, where she shares the importance of patient centered care that continues post-TB. Plus a CTA that's right up our alley (spoiler: it involves memes)
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#TBSky #MedSky #IDSky #PublicHealth
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#TBSky #MedSky #IDSky #PublicHealth
TB Ed Talk: LIBRE-Post TB: A Pilot Intervention for Post-TB Lung Disease from Dr. Carole Mitnick
Dr. Carole Mitnick will introduce the phenomenon of post-TB lung disease (PTLD), which may affect up to 60% of people who are cured of TB. She will also discuss a pilot intervention for PTLD developed by Socios En Salud (PIH in Peru) to help people with respiratory symptoms after TB. And she will re
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October 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Not infectious ≠ not affected! Check out our latest TB Ed Talk with Dr. Carole Mitnick, where she shares the importance of patient centered care that continues post-TB. Plus a CTA that's right up our alley (spoiler: it involves memes)
www.youtube.com/watc...
#TBSky #MedSky #IDSky #PublicHealth
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#TBSky #MedSky #IDSky #PublicHealth
Our next book club read is the most requested title since we started #TBReaders ! Get hyped for Maria Smilios' The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis. Order it now or request it at your local library: tbfighters.org/book-...
October 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Our next book club read is the most requested title since we started #TBReaders ! Get hyped for Maria Smilios' The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis. Order it now or request it at your local library: tbfighters.org/book-...
Dismantling #USAID and halting #ForeignAid is a huge set back in our work to #EndTB, but there's still reason for hope! Check out @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's video from the Philippines where he gives an update on the project to eliminate TB on Guimaras Island
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxmq...
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Doing the Work Our Government Abandoned
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October 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Dismantling #USAID and halting #ForeignAid is a huge set back in our work to #EndTB, but there's still reason for hope! Check out @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's video from the Philippines where he gives an update on the project to eliminate TB on Guimaras Island
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxmq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxmq...
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The U.S. is withholding billions in Global Fund and PEPFAR funds, putting HIV care at risk worldwide.
PEPFAR reflects Dr. Paul Farmer’s belief that health care is a human right—and has saved over 25 million lives.
Contact your Members of Congress today: https://act.pih.org/pepfar-apportionment
PEPFAR reflects Dr. Paul Farmer’s belief that health care is a human right—and has saved over 25 million lives.
Contact your Members of Congress today: https://act.pih.org/pepfar-apportionment
October 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The U.S. is withholding billions in Global Fund and PEPFAR funds, putting HIV care at risk worldwide.
PEPFAR reflects Dr. Paul Farmer’s belief that health care is a human right—and has saved over 25 million lives.
Contact your Members of Congress today: https://act.pih.org/pepfar-apportionment
PEPFAR reflects Dr. Paul Farmer’s belief that health care is a human right—and has saved over 25 million lives.
Contact your Members of Congress today: https://act.pih.org/pepfar-apportionment