RFK Jr’s unethical experiment on African babies is officially canned, thanks to public backlash driven by Stand Up For Science 🎉 ✊️ 🧵 🧪

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Same. Most of my time here has been as a student. Getting it was such a relief as ILR and citizenship become viable options in a near future.

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Not mentioned about this unethical study is "why Guinea-Bissau"? The trial is not to test efficacy - we already know it's effective - it's to test non-specific effects. There is *zero* grounds to do that in a country with high risk of HepB - if UoSD is hell-bent on doing a study, do it in Denmark.

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🌍 Working with @gavi.org, @lshtm.bsky.social researchers led by @drjohnellis.bsky.social modelled the potential impact of new TB vaccines across 73 LMICs. 💉 vaccines delivered between 2030 and 2050 could avert up to 61 million TB cases and 7 million deaths by 2100. Read more 👉 bit.ly/4rkkTax

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New paper from @plosglobalpublichealth.org: which TB screening strategies are the best value as funding shrinks? Modelling clinic/community approaches in 🇿🇦, we found combining strategies reaching risk groups is more cost-effective than any one approach alone doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0006738

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