Sourya Shrestha

Our colleague @anchalthapamgr presenting @Unionconference on ‘Impact & cost-effectiveness of implementing TB preventive treatment among adult household contact persons in Nepal: A model-based analysis’. @JohnsHopkinsSPH @soustha @LSTMnews @impact_tb Highlights👇(Thread 1/3)

Almost everyone in #Gaza is going hungry according to the latest assessment. This is inhumane. @WHO calls for immediate access for all humanitarian aid, starting with food and medicine for severely malnourished children, who need to be treated urgently. WHO continues to call for a ceasefire. The best medicine is peace.

This is the best news of the week! ‘Gamechanger’ HIV prevention drug to be made available cheaply in 120 countries! A twice year injection that showed 100% success in protecting against HIV infection! theguardian.com/global-develop…

Thank you Javier Bardem for your decency, your courage, and love for all human beings. You are a beacon of light, amigo.

Participation of female athletes at the Olympics: Athens 1896 - 0% Paris 2024 - 50% It took more than a century, but the Paris 2024 Olympics are set to be the first in history to achieve full gender parity, with equal numbers of male and female athletes! That's pretty awesome.

Classic books on TB from 1940s recently purchased by me online. Still valuable insights on pathogenesis and epidemiology of TB." ..from too much zeal for the new, and contempt for what is old, from putting knowledge before wisdom,..Good Lord deliver us"- Robert Hutchison's Litany

@HelenBranswell @cdc It's confirmed H5. @WastewaterSCAN has reported two positive samples over the past month from SF.

Resurgence with a vengence! Interesting it has taken longer for Pertussis than some other resp infections like flu and rsv.

.@JohnsHopkinsEPI is seeking a dynamic and visionary leader to serve as Director of the George W. Comstock Center for Public Health Research and Prevention. apply.interfolio.com/146156

@TAlexPerkins @NDBios @NDscience Congrats!!

A third of rebel fighters in Nepal's civil war were women. They were enticed to join on a promise of equality. But the crimes against them during war were not treated equally in peace. 🧵 #DeviDoc #CRSV #Nepal #nepali #Feminist

TB continues to be #1 infectious disease villian, causing loss of >65 million DALYs in 2019.

We have an exciting position to fill for an epidemiologist/data scientist in our team at the University of Heidelberg, Germany for work in Global Health diagnostics. Please share widely karriere.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?ac=j… Here the team website: denkglobaldx.org

The U.S. government is still supplying 2 thousand pound bombs and ammunition to support Israel's policy. Until there are substantive consequences, this outrage does nothing. Bibi obviously doesn't care what the U.S. says, its about what the U.S. does. politico.com/news/2024/04/0…

BREAKING: Celebrity chef Jose Andres told @Reuters that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them 'systematically, car by car' reut.rs/3xkmsgB

Such a tragedy

In one generation, the Indigenous share of California’s population fell from 90 to 1 percent, writes @SimonMoyaSmith. And the 49ers played an active role in this genocide. bit.ly/4bKKph5

Important and interesting issues for new TB vaccines. Next Thursday. Join if you can...

Our North American regional membership group is working with the National Tuberculosis Coalition of America (NTCA) to host an event in Baltimore, Maryland April 16 - 19. Registration is now open! For more info: conta.cc/49faxyu

A jail sentence for Sandeep Lamichhane for rape, and arrest of Ram Bahadur Bomjan in case of a minor's rape and disappearance of four people . It has been a good week, Nepal.