@tbrigden.bsky.social
Senior TB Advisor, The Global Fund. Passionate about ending TB, access to medicines and lung health. Views expressed here are my own.
Some really big news for #TB diagnosis and innovation. Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) commits $50M to Global Fund to support scale up of new TB diagnostic innovations! www.theglobalfund.org/en/news/2025...
CIFF Commits Additional US$50 Million to the Global Fund to Scale Up TB Diagnosis
The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) today announced a US$50 million commitment to accelerate the introduction and rollout of innovative diagnostics for tuberculosis (TB). This marks the F...
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September 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Some really big news for #TB diagnosis and innovation. Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) commits $50M to Global Fund to support scale up of new TB diagnostic innovations! www.theglobalfund.org/en/news/2025...
Building on the previous ASLM ECHO session I will be presenting with Prof Dissou on the Near Point of Care TB pipeline and approaches to consider in planning to implement this new class of TB diagnostic. Recommend listening to the previous session which was excellent! bit.ly/3JKhos0
August 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Building on the previous ASLM ECHO session I will be presenting with Prof Dissou on the Near Point of Care TB pipeline and approaches to consider in planning to implement this new class of TB diagnostic. Recommend listening to the previous session which was excellent! bit.ly/3JKhos0
Did you know that we may be on the cusp of a new sampling technique for #TB? The African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) LabCop is doing a session on non-sputum based tests so you can find out more! To register - lnkd.in/eh99PFyC
August 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Did you know that we may be on the cusp of a new sampling technique for #TB? The African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) LabCop is doing a session on non-sputum based tests so you can find out more! To register - lnkd.in/eh99PFyC
Agree. Hoping my MP @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social is supportive of the UK maintaining its funding for The Global Fund!
Supporting the work the Global Fund does is essential to the fight to #EndTB , and all countries play a role! UK residents: email your MP about maintaining the UK's commitment to the Global Fund! And join RESULTS UK's email list for more ways to fight #Tuberculosis
results.org.uk/news/...
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support the Global Fund's life-saving work - Results UK
Help support the Gloal Fund's life-saving work.
results.org.uk
June 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Agree. Hoping my MP @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social is supportive of the UK maintaining its funding for The Global Fund!
Really important call from @who.int for data on new #TB diagnostic platform and sampling types. Please share with manufacturers and researchers who are working in this area. hq_globaltuberculosisprogramme.cmail20.com/t/d-e-shuitj...
May 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Really important call from @who.int for data on new #TB diagnostic platform and sampling types. Please share with manufacturers and researchers who are working in this area. hq_globaltuberculosisprogramme.cmail20.com/t/d-e-shuitj...
Thank you @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social for coming to Global Fund and @stoptb.bsky.social office yesterday to discuss #EverythingisTB. Although it was a room of people converted to the cause of fighting for #TB it was a hopeful and inspiring discussion which is very needed right now!
May 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Thank you @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social for coming to Global Fund and @stoptb.bsky.social office yesterday to discuss #EverythingisTB. Although it was a room of people converted to the cause of fighting for #TB it was a hopeful and inspiring discussion which is very needed right now!
#TBScience has now launched it's call for abstracts. The themes this year are:
- New frontiers in TB treatment development and monitoring
- Artificial Intelligence advancing the TB field
- TB vaccines and other prevention strategies
- Microscopic frontiers in TB pathology
shorturl.at/m7oh9
- New frontiers in TB treatment development and monitoring
- Artificial Intelligence advancing the TB field
- TB vaccines and other prevention strategies
- Microscopic frontiers in TB pathology
shorturl.at/m7oh9
TBScience – The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2025
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May 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
#TBScience has now launched it's call for abstracts. The themes this year are:
- New frontiers in TB treatment development and monitoring
- Artificial Intelligence advancing the TB field
- TB vaccines and other prevention strategies
- Microscopic frontiers in TB pathology
shorturl.at/m7oh9
- New frontiers in TB treatment development and monitoring
- Artificial Intelligence advancing the TB field
- TB vaccines and other prevention strategies
- Microscopic frontiers in TB pathology
shorturl.at/m7oh9
Great to see @arabnews.com.web.brid.gy highlighting the work on finding and treating #TB in Iraq and how investments from The Global Fund have supported this work. www.arabnews.com/node/2597362...
How falling cases of tuberculosis in Iraq reflect a wider health system recovery
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April 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Great to see @arabnews.com.web.brid.gy highlighting the work on finding and treating #TB in Iraq and how investments from The Global Fund have supported this work. www.arabnews.com/node/2597362...
It seems this is a Good News day for TB! www.stoptb.org/news/global-...
The 6 month all oral regimen (BPaLM) now available for $310. This is what we dreamed of when I worked at the MSF Access Campaign! Great work from GDF @stoptb.bsky.social
The 6 month all oral regimen (BPaLM) now available for $310. This is what we dreamed of when I worked at the MSF Access Campaign! Great work from GDF @stoptb.bsky.social
Global Drug Facility Announces Another Big Price Drop: 25% Reduction in the Price of Pretomanid | Stop TB Partnership
www.stoptb.org
April 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It seems this is a Good News day for TB! www.stoptb.org/news/global-...
The 6 month all oral regimen (BPaLM) now available for $310. This is what we dreamed of when I worked at the MSF Access Campaign! Great work from GDF @stoptb.bsky.social
The 6 month all oral regimen (BPaLM) now available for $310. This is what we dreamed of when I worked at the MSF Access Campaign! Great work from GDF @stoptb.bsky.social
Good news from the TB research world! Maybe we will have a new TB vaccine by 2030...... healthpolicy-watch.news/promising-ph...
Promising Phase 3 Trial Of Tuberculosis Vaccine Is Running Ahead Of Schedule - Health Policy Watch
A Phase 3 trial for the tuberculosis vaccine known as M72/AS01E is running a year ahead of schedule and has already recruited 90% of the 20,000 people it
healthpolicy-watch.news
April 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Good news from the TB research world! Maybe we will have a new TB vaccine by 2030...... healthpolicy-watch.news/promising-ph...
Looking forward to joining fellow speakers from @treatmentactiongroup.org @apcaso.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social to discuss what tests where when thinking about ensuring access to WHO recommended #TB diagnostic tests.
March 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Looking forward to joining fellow speakers from @treatmentactiongroup.org @apcaso.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social to discuss what tests where when thinking about ensuring access to WHO recommended #TB diagnostic tests.
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1 week today until our World TB Day Symposium! Join us in-person (more tickets available) or online.
Register now to join us for this year's #WTBD symposium!
With sessions on post-TB lung disease, the UK's place in national and international policy, and asymptomatic TB, plus a debate on Pan-TB regimens and turbo talks from early career researchers @tb-lshtm.bsky.social & @ucltb.bsky.social!
With sessions on post-TB lung disease, the UK's place in national and international policy, and asymptomatic TB, plus a debate on Pan-TB regimens and turbo talks from early career researchers @tb-lshtm.bsky.social & @ucltb.bsky.social!
March 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
1 week today until our World TB Day Symposium! Join us in-person (more tickets available) or online.
#TB anywhere is #TB everywhere, but approaches to improve models of care, diagnostics and treatment work everywhere! @spotlightnsp.bsky.social @treatmentactiongroup.org @gfanafrica.bsky.social mg.co.za/thought-lead...
Solutions to TB and HIV benefit all of us, North and South
Diseases don’t respect national borders … governments all over the world need to work together to rein them in
mg.co.za
March 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
#TB anywhere is #TB everywhere, but approaches to improve models of care, diagnostics and treatment work everywhere! @spotlightnsp.bsky.social @treatmentactiongroup.org @gfanafrica.bsky.social mg.co.za/thought-lead...
Great to see the work of National #TB programs in scaling up TPT highlighed in the Global Fund quarterly update. www.theglobalfund.org/media/nakosw...
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March 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Great to see the work of National #TB programs in scaling up TPT highlighed in the Global Fund quarterly update. www.theglobalfund.org/media/nakosw...
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Video now online for 'TB in the UK' webinar youtube.com/watch?v=h5Lp... #tuberculosis
March 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Video now online for 'TB in the UK' webinar youtube.com/watch?v=h5Lp... #tuberculosis
#TB folks in South East Asia, APCASO, Diagnostics Equity Consortium (DEC), and @treatmentactiongroup.org are arranging a 2-part study club on the TB diagnostic landscape & strategies to increase TB testing coverage. Great speakers planned for the first session
georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Speed-Up, Scale-Up TB Testing! A Focus on the Asia-Pacific Region: What Test Goes Where?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joi...
Time: 10:30 IST | 11:00 BDT | 12:00 ICT | 13:00 PHT
Join APCASO, the Diagnostics Equity Consortium (DEC), and the Treatment Action Group (TAG) for a two-part study club series focused on the Asia- Pa...
georgetown.zoom.us
March 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
#TB folks in South East Asia, APCASO, Diagnostics Equity Consortium (DEC), and @treatmentactiongroup.org are arranging a 2-part study club on the TB diagnostic landscape & strategies to increase TB testing coverage. Great speakers planned for the first session
georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
New Grand challenges call from The Gates Foundation looking for innovations in TB sample collection and processing. Information webinar details in the link. gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/en...
Enhancing HIV and TB Diagnosis: Adjunct Technologies for Sam
Enhancing HIV and TB Diagnosis: Adjunct Technologies for Sample Collection and Processing Grand Challenges RFP
gcgh.grandchallenges.org
February 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
New Grand challenges call from The Gates Foundation looking for innovations in TB sample collection and processing. Information webinar details in the link. gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/en...
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The first chapter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCbD...
EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS!
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February 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The first chapter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCbD...
Challenge to the #TB community.... what are the RCT's we really need to push things forward in TB? @who.int is putting a call out as part of their Global Clinical Trials Forum. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @catherineberry.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social @sgschumacher.bsky.social
Identifying key randomised clinical trials that could transform clinical care and public health
Clinical trials have been pivotal to the improvements in public health and clinical
care, leading to many millions of additional years of healthy life globally. Some
examples of disease areas in which...
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February 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Challenge to the #TB community.... what are the RCT's we really need to push things forward in TB? @who.int is putting a call out as part of their Global Clinical Trials Forum. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @catherineberry.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social @sgschumacher.bsky.social
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Many #TB local #community organizations & their life saving wk has been impacted by the #USAID stop work order. While the US Administration reviews aid priorities, Stop TB has launched a fundraising campaign to support these orgs. Donate! #keepthelightson #endTB act.unfoundation.org/onlineaction...
February 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Many #TB local #community organizations & their life saving wk has been impacted by the #USAID stop work order. While the US Administration reviews aid priorities, Stop TB has launched a fundraising campaign to support these orgs. Donate! #keepthelightson #endTB act.unfoundation.org/onlineaction...
Sign up! Looking forward to participating in the panel discussion. @ucltb.bsky.social
Person-Centred Care for TB-affected Households symposium
- Tomorrow 11th Feb, 1230-1400 GMT
- Hybrid, no registration required
www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/person-ce...
- Tomorrow 11th Feb, 1230-1400 GMT
- Hybrid, no registration required
www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/person-ce...
February 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Sign up! Looking forward to participating in the panel discussion. @ucltb.bsky.social
**Upcoming Abstract deadline for the 𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (12 May, Windhoek, Namibia) is in 𝟮 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞𝗦! If you’re working on innovative solutions for #TB great opportunity to present your work academicmedicaleducation.com/meeting/2nd-...
2nd Conference on Innovations in Tuberculosis 2025 | AME
academicmedicaleducation.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
**Upcoming Abstract deadline for the 𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (12 May, Windhoek, Namibia) is in 𝟮 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞𝗦! If you’re working on innovative solutions for #TB great opportunity to present your work academicmedicaleducation.com/meeting/2nd-...
For @theunion-tblh.bsky.social members the #TB Section Vice Chair is now open. Look on the members website or contact me directly for information on how to apply.
February 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
For @theunion-tblh.bsky.social members the #TB Section Vice Chair is now open. Look on the members website or contact me directly for information on how to apply.
Looking forward to taking part in the discussions - sign up now. :-)
Join our "Person-Centred Care for TB-affected Households" hybrid symposium www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/person-ce... #tuberculosis
- Tues 11 Feb 2025, 1230-1400 GMT
- No pre-registration needed
- Tues 11 Feb 2025, 1230-1400 GMT
- No pre-registration needed
January 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Looking forward to taking part in the discussions - sign up now. :-)