Ahead of the United Nations’ first High Level Meeting to address and help end the tuberculosis epidemic, BMC is featuring a series of podcasts, including one from Madhu. Enjoy!
New paper on stigma from Amrita Daftary
Read Amrita’s latest paper “To End TB, First-Ever High-Level Meeting on TB Must Address Stigma” published in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Jody Boffa – Postdoctoral Fellow
Congratulations to Jody who became a postdoctoral fellow on September 15th! Jody will continue to work with Amrita on the TB care cascade project in South Africa.
Systematic review on biomarkers for childhood TB
Congratulations to Toyin, Emily, Madhu and our collaborator for their new systematic review “Biomarkers for diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis: A systematic review” published in PLoS One! This paper is part of the project Improving the diagnosis of childhood TB in high burden settings.
Improving access to essential tests – Editorial
Mikashmi, Paulami and Madhu’s editorial on “Improving access to essential tests for infectious diseases” will be published in Microbes and Infection (now in press). Congratulations!
Upfront Xpert MTB/RIF testing for pediatric TB – paper from Sophie Huddart
Sophie contributed to the paper “Upfront Xpert MTB/RIF testing on various specimen types for presumptive infant TB cases for early and appropriate treatment initiation“, published in PLoS One. As she puts it: “This is a deeper dive into the infant TB cases diagnosed with Xpert. Almost all were diagnosed using non-sputum samples and 5% were rif resistant. We also observed an 11% mortality in TB cases. This is certainly the largest cohort of infant TB I’ve come across and it paints a scary picture!”
Lancet Global Health: report of the HQSS Commission
The report of the HQSS Commission was published today in the Lancet GH. TB is prominently used throughout the report and you can see that by searching for tuberculosis in the PDF. Some of our team’s work is also cited. For this, we can thank Danielle and Tripti, who worked hard with the HQSS team on the TB aspects. Look for their names in the acknowledgements section! Check out also Madhu’s blog post on the subject in Nature Microbiology.
Welcome to Lena Faust
Lena is joining the Pai TB Group to do a PhD, with Madhu serving as her supervisor. Welcome Lena!
Cochrane review from Mikashmi Kohli
Congratulations to Mikashmi and her co-authors for their new Cochrane systematic review “Xpert MTB/RIF assay for extrapulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance“!
NIH award for Amrita Daftary
Congratulations to Amrita who is Co-Investigator on a new NIH R21 award: Evaluating a multimodal behavioral intervention to reduce stigma in HIV/drug resistant TB in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (PI: O’Donnell MR, Columbia University)!