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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...
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 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...