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Participant explaining his lived experience through a photo News article 13 Jun 2024 Co-creating Solutions: Promoting Gender-Responsive Tuberculosis (TB) Care and Services through Photovoice Author: Andrew Oguntolu and Oluwatoyosi AdekeyeOn 23rd May 2023, the LIGHT Consortium at Zankli Research Centre launched a photo voice enrichment...
News article 4 Apr 2024 The vital role of parliamentarians in developing and implementing gender-responsive TB policies and programmes to address gender disparities in TB in African countries Author: Leyla Abdullahi, PhDThe substantial gender disparities in the epidemiological burden of tuberculosis (TB), with higher incidence among men (5...
News article 8 Feb 2024 New Kenyan strategic plan to harness gender-transformative approaches in ending tuberculosis Author: Leyla Abdullahi, PhDTuberculosis (TB) continues to be a major public health challenge worldwide, while disproportionately affecting men in...
News article 7 Feb 2024 Moving towards gender-responsive approaches to TB in Kenya’s National TB Strategy Authors: Edel Sakwa, Rhoda Pola and Felix MbeteraIn Kenya, a proactive effort is currently underway to enhance initiatives supporting the National...
News article 28 Sep 2023 Thursday Thought: The importance of Evidence Informed Decision Making | Dr Kerry Millington Campaigns in Global Health hosted Dr Kerry Millington, LIGHT's Research Uptake Manager at the LSTM and the Co-Chair of UK...
News article 7 Aug 2023 Collaborative efforts in Kenya towards addressing gender disparities in TB prevention and care In Kenya, tuberculosis (TB) remains a pressing public health concern. Kenya is on the global list of countries with a high TB burden, with TB ranking...
Luke Banda and Chikondi Kadongola at the NMES launch_August 2023 News article 4 Aug 2023 Partners for an inclusive society: reflections on the recently launched Malawi Male Engagement Strategy (MES)  For far too long, the push towards gender equality and related issues such as eliminating gender-based violence (GBV), has been often viewed as...
RAMP logo and participants in action at the RAMP training News article 6 Jul 2023 Q & A Blog: Research Administration and Management Programme (RAMP) Training administrators, managers, and finance officers: A conversation with Talib and Mary
Speakers at the PATS Conference- Kenya- June 2023 News article 12 Jun 2023 Pan African Thoracic Society (PATS) Congress: Urgent policy solutions needed as respiratory diseases rise in Africa – experts advise Respiratory diseases are persistently rising in African countries. These diseases affect the lungs and airways, and include tuberculosis (TB),...
News article 16 May 2023 Research Administration and Management Programme (RAMP) training: a learning journey By Samira Abdallah
News article 24 Mar 2023 World TB Day 2023 From: LSTM
Dr Mohammed Yassin News article 23 Mar 2023 Looking to the future of TB research Dr Mohammed Yassin is Senior Advisor for Tuberculosis at the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, and sits on the External...
Tenzin Kunor News article 9 Mar 2023 Going the distance together: academics & health care professionals working with Tuberculosis survivors & advocates to end Tuberculosis At the LIGHT research programme’s annual meeting (27 February – 3 March 2023) in Liverpool, the LIGHT research, research uptake, and communications...
The LIGHT consortium's Knowledge Exchange Officer Taghreed El Hajj, Post-Doctoral Research Associate Beate Ringwald, and Research Uptake Manager Kerry Millington strike the #EmbraceEquity pose. News article 7 Mar 2023 Celebrating International Women’s Day 2023: Preparing to embrace equity every day of the year “My name is Beate Ringwald and I am a postdoctoral research associate focused on gender and equity with the Leaving no-one behInd: transforming...
Research support staff in front of Pembroke house News article 15 Dec 2022 Training research support staff to achieve scientific success Recent surveys show that researchers spend a disproportionate amount of time on grant administration and management, with Principal Investigators (...
News article 7 Jul 2022 E6 - Mary Mpakibi, A journey of strength, courage, and leadership from a TB survivor In this episode we hear from Mary, a TB survivor who shares her inspirational journey from initial sickness to embarking on multiple complex...
News article 25 Mar 2022 Phumeza Tisile’s story: surviving the worst of tuberculosis Phumeza Tisile is a Research Assistant, a project lead and an Advocacy Officer at TB Proof organisation, based in Cape Town, South Africa and Adviser...
News article 24 Mar 2022 E4, Part Two Challenges and opportunities in TB: leveraging lessons from COVID-19 – the view from the frontlines This episode is a two-part feature with Charles Yin who has been a TB researcher for over 30 years and Mohammed Yassin from Global Fund. In this...
News article 23 Mar 2022 S3E4, Part One. Challenges and opportunities in TB: leveraging lessons from COVID-19 – the view from the frontlines This episode is a two-part feature with Charles Yin who has been a TB researcher for over 30 years and Mohammed Yassin from Global Fund. In this...
News article 22 Mar 2022 Investing in gender equitable access to TB prevention and care will save lives Tuberculosis (TB) kills 30 Ugandans every day. On March 24, Uganda’s National Tuberculosis (TB) and Leprosy Control Program joins the world to...
Credit: Naomi Walker News article 22 Mar 2022 Shining a light on TB - Blog for World TB Day Tuberculosis (TB) has affected humankind for millennia. Each year, TB continues to cause 10 million people to fall ill, 1.5 million people to die,...
News article 22 Mar 2022 ‘Snap! Spit! Treat!’ Artificial intelligence offers new hope for expanding tuberculosis screening and diagnosis within high burden communities Computer-aided detection on chest X-ray for tuberculosis has high accuracy, does not depend on reported symptoms, has high throughput, and can thus...
News article 17 Mar 2022 Episode 3: Re-imagining TB treatment (or) the Challenge of TB treatment and the need for Change! Featuring guest speakers Timeo Mtenga from the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust and Naomi Walker from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, this...
News article 10 Mar 2022 Series 3. Ep2 TB and diagnosis - Using state of the art technology to find and treat people living with TB Welcome to the connecting citizens to science podcast, in this month’s series we have been ‘in conversation with’ global experts on the current...
News article 3 Mar 2022 Episode 1: TB and gender: changing the dynamics In the first episode of this TB series, we speak to Katherine Horton from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Jeremiah Chikovore...
Photo credit: Daniel Foster via Flickr News article 11 Feb 2022 If we want more women and girls in science, we must empower and ignite their interest Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) play a key role in the sustained growth and stability of any economy. Stem related concepts...
Tenzin Kunor News article 30 Nov 2021 Tenzin Kunor’s story: my personal experience with tuberculosis On International Men’s Day on 19 November 2021, Tenzin Kunor from the WHO Civil Society Task Force on TB and We are TBopened a webinar on Enabling a...
Oxana Rucsineanu News article 30 Nov 2021 Oxana Rucsineanu’s story: A tale of activism and legislation born of experience On International Men’s Day on 19 November 2021, Oxana Rucsineanu, Director of programs at the Society of Moldova against Tuberculosis (SMIT), TB...
Eziagulu Otu Community Chief and men News article 8 Nov 2021 Gender equitable access to healthcare is an essential element of a resilient TB response in Nigeria In 2018, Heads of States and Governments met in New York at a UN High Level Meeting (HLM) on Tuberculosis (TB). At the meeting ambitious targets and...