Leslie Enane

Rest in peace, Jane.
The world will miss you.

My favorite quote from Jane:

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

A young woman with a bit of a goofy grin is standing next to Jane Goodall. A signed note reads, “For Leslie - Together we can make this a better world for all life. - Jane Goodall.”

I was very lucky to be able to meet Jane Goodall 22 years ago, in western Tanzania. She was incredibly kind to me and I was just in awe to meet my hero and spend a bit of time together.

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting. USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

5-year-old Suza from #DRCongo should still be alive. Malaria is treatable, but medicine wasn't available when she needed it.

Heartbreaking, urgent reporting from @washingtonpost.com shows how even brief interruptions in aid delivery can have dire consequences for vulnerable communities:

87-year-old Cecil Williams walked down the runway to "Neva Scared" during Actively Black and Spill's #NYFW show this weekend

www.whatimreading.net/p/civil-righ...

It’s not visible to most Americans, but TB is on the rise in the US in recent years, and most specialists in infectious disease and public health still diagnose and manage a lot of TB. With the drawback of US support, we will see more children and adults sick with TB that could have been prevented.

As much as we combat #TB in patient care, public health, or research, we need to advocate for our leaders to invest in this fight - to choose a different world in which TB is not killing 1.25 million/yr. Thank you to @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social #PIH and #TBfighters for the tremendous #TBHillDay.

Amid the heartbreak in so many directions, it was a wondrous balm to spend today on Capitol Hill with over 200 TB Fighters from every state in the U.S. Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who made it happen from @tbfighters.org to @partnersinhealth.bsky.social. Together, we are strong.

“All I can say is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims - and as far as possible one must refuse to be on the side of the pestilence.”

- Albert Camus, The Plague

The cost of blood cultures: a barrier to diagnosis in low-income and middle-income countries The recent Editorial by The Lancet Microbe, titled Rethinking blood culture, highlights the blood culture bottle shortage in the USA and the overreliance on single manufacturers.1 The shortages of blo...

If you can't afford to use a diagnostic test, then its relative performance characteristics become irrelevant.

Important issue raised re blood cultures 👇 @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social
#ClinMicro #IDSky #AMR
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Testing. Treatment. Advocacy.

We are proving that TB can be beaten, but it takes all of us to drive change 💪

Let’s fight for a world where no one dies from a preventable disease.

Click here to learn more about TB by downloading our advocacy guide: act.pih.org/tb

New publication, led by @rachaelburke.bsky.social

In meta-analysis of ~100,000 hospital admission, we found that AIDS-related illnesses (42%) & especially #TB (19%) remain the commonest cause of hospitalisation for people with #HIV, despite high ART coverage.

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"You Are (Still) Not Alone: #HIV Long-Term Survivor Rebecca Denison Lays Out the Next Phase of the Fight" via @thebodydotcom.bsky.social

(🧵) In honor of #WorldTBDay, we're sharing recommendations from PIHers on what to read about #tuberculosis.

These books highlight the urgent fight against TB—through history, research, and the voices of those affected.

Follow the thread to check out some of these recommendations 👇

The injustice of tuberculosis Why would John Green, a best-selling American novelist, write a book about tuberculosis? The answer can be found in his new book Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadlies...

On World Tuberculosis Day, we acknowledge that “tuberculosis is both a form and expression of injustice,” as @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social put it and recommit to ending TB

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... via @thelancet.bsky.social

A photo of mothers and small children. Copyright © 2025 Burger/Phanie/Science Photo Library

"On #WorldTBDay 2025, a glaring weakness in the cascade of care for children with #Tuberculosis—case finding—is the crucial first step."

Read the Comment from global experts ➡️ buff.ly/zFWotbv

#EndTB #IDsky

A roadmap for integrating nutritional assessment, counselling, and support into the care of people with tuberculosis Undernutrition—the leading risk factor for tuberculosis worldwide—is associated with impaired immunity, more extensive disease, delayed sputum convers…

Undernutrition is the leading risk factor for TB globally, so its very exciting to see this roadmap for integrating nutrition into the care of people with TB out now in @lancetgh.bsky.social, led by the amazing @tbtakenseriously.bsky.social
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Aidsmap is back and you can get their insightful coverage of CROI2025 directly to your inbox. 

Sign up to the new mailing list ✉️

As the #measles outbreak continues, and has now unfortunately resulted in the death of a child, I see a lot of posts along the lines of: "I had measles as a child and I'm fine". Let me tell you a different version of that story:
🧵1/11 🧪 #medsky

Very sad for the children, families, and communities affected by this outbreak.

Reducing global inequities in medical oxygen access: the Lancet Global Health Commission on medical oxygen security “Oxygen delayed is life denied.”—Person who survived COVID-19, Kenya

"5 billion people—ie, 60% of the world's population—do not have access to affordable, high-quality medical oxygen services"

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth

Image shows a quote from the piece on how the Kansas outbreak should be a wake up call for what can happen when we divert resources away from public health

🗞️News

📰Historic #TB outbreak a wake-up call for US policy makers

Written by @bryantfurlow.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/8u6nmf4a

#EndTB #TBsky #tuberculosis @theunion-tblh.bsky.social

A Lancet Editorial: “American chaos: standing up for health and medicine”

“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.”

The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av

Photograph of a warehouse in Kinshasa where unboxed tuberculosis medications are going undistributed due to the stop work order by the Trump Administration.

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

Tuberculosis - new warriors take on an old enemy TB has affected humans for centuries. In 2025, it is the number 1 infectious killer of humankind. We know how to control this disease, but have chosen not to. Four new books bring attention to this an...

In 2025, TB is the number 1 infectious killer of humankind

Four new books bring renewed attention to this ancient plague

Thank you Handaa Enkh-Amgalan, Maria Smilios, Vidya Krishnan & @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

communities.springernature.com/posts/tuberc...

Over 100 refugees who were scheduled to be resettled in Indiana have seen their flights canceled in the last two days. Refugees make our state stronger, and the bipartisan support for U.S. refugee resettlement has been a pillar of our nation for over a century.

Dr. Arthur L. Caplan [bioethicist & polio survivor]:
“I always felt like the voices that need to be heard are the kids who died, the kids who didn’t make it.”
He said of the hearings: polio survivors will be watching, “and there will be a lot of ghosts in that hearing room.”
#IDsky #pedsID #pedsky