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Inadequate last-mile pharmaceutical waste management is a neglected threat to environmental and public health: a call to action In 2024, the WHO’s Division on Access to Medicines and Health Products issued a call to action for sustainability in the pharmaceutical sector. The initiative, ‘Greener Pharmaceuticals’ Regulatory Hig...

Last-mile #pharmaceutical #waste management is a neglected #health, #ecological & #social challenge. Let's act to protect #vulnerable communities & the #environment! @itmantwerp.bsky.social #UWC #UniversityNamibia @salehaljadeeah.bsky.social @belentarrafeta.bsky.social

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🦟 Have you spotted a tiger mosquito?
📍 One place to report it: mosquitosurveillance.be
🔍 Let’s track them together!

In the past week, 90 students have finished their studies at ITM, ready to take on global health challenges!
To all our graduates: your hard work, resilience, and dedication have brought you here. You're not only graduating. You're joining a powerful global community of changemakers. #ITMAlumni

🦴"I feel like my bones are breaking." That's how bad dengue can be. Meet this rising global threat on our podcast Transmission.
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Epidemiologist Epidemiologist for modelling AMR transmission in LMICMore than 500 staff members at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) contribute e...

Open position for an ID modeler @itmantwerp.bsky.social on community-level + healthcare transmission of resistant #AMR bacteria in LRS, working with Clinical Research Unit Nanoro, @esthervk.bsky.social, @bugwonk.bsky.social, KEMRI-wellcome Kilifi, myself,... #IDSky #EpiSky
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📈Dengue is on the rise. Can we outsmart the mosquitoes that spread it? Find the answers in our podcast Transmission. 🎧 www.itg.be/nl/health-st...

#MuggenSurveillance 🦟 | De #tijgermug blijft zich in België verspreiden… en burgerbetrokkenheid is belangrijker dan ooit!

👉 Dankzij jullie meldingen kunnen Sciensano en het @itmantwerp.bsky.social de verspreiding van deze invasieve mug van nabij opvolgen.

🦟 Our MEMO+ project in @brusselstimes.com!

An extension of the Spiegelhalter-Knill-Jones method for continuous covariates in clinical decision making - BMC Medical Research Methodology Background There is still demand for algorithms that can be used at the point of care, especially when dealing with events that do not present with a single obvious clinical indicator. The Spiegelhalt...

New article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology led by our @itmantwerp.bsky.social statistician Bart KM Jacobs. We describe an extension of the Spiegelhalter-Knill-Jones method allowing the inclusion of continuous covariates. bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Great as always being at @itmantwerp.bsky.social today teaching whole genome sequencing for clinical tuberculosis management to the group of super engaged clinical doctors taking our DR-TB course. So many great questions I tried my best to answer 😅

💣Cutting global health funding doesn’t just stall progress. It actively endangers our future. But there’s still time to act, if we choose to.
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First day of @itmantwerp.bsky.social short course on #Pharmaceutical #Policies in #HealthSystems: @verowirtz.bsky.social introduces the Essential Medicines concept & explores trade-offs between #equity and #efficiency
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Global health predicament after US funding cuts Is global health security worth 0.01% of our GDP?

Related - via @itmantwerp.bsky.social www.itg.be/en/health-st... @rravinetto.bsky.social @gorikooms.bsky.social

🚨 Treat global health as global security. The US withdrawal threatens millions more HIV, malaria & TB deaths by 2025.

The Global Fund needs replenishment—and reform. Equal representation, fair funding, real partnerships. Time to act! @plosglobalpublichealth.org www.itg.be/en/health-st...

🌈 Today—and every day—we support equality, inclusion, and diversity.

Our colleagues listened to:
👉 Michel Malo shared his journey as a refugee who fled Lebanon due to his sexual orientation.
👉 Imran Nawaz, Mister Gay Belgium, spoke about faith, identity, and breaking taboos.
#IDAHOT #LoveIsLove

Our 'Short Course in Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine' @itmantwerp.bsky.social closes today with students presenting their research proposals to an external jury! Proud to see such innovative ideas from young researchers after 4 intensive weeks! #ClinicalResearch #EBM

BopCo - Mosquito diversity at deployment sites of armed forces We provide DNA-based identifications to investigate mosquito diversity at foreign deployment sites of the Belgian armed forces.

🥼 BopCo, alongside researchers from the @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social, the @uantwerpen.be, and the @itmantwerp.bsky.social, had the pleasure of joining a supervised tour through the Biological laboratory of the Belgian Defence Laboratories (DLD-Bio).

🔬African-led research is reshaping the fight against malaria. Hear from experts like Halidou Tinto in our podcast Transmission.
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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary ...

Hosting offer for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 Call @itmantwerp.bsky.social in the context of Evolutionary Genomics and Molecular Surveillance of Leishmania. www.itg.be/storage/file...
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From ITM to Rentokil: continuing the fight against invasive mosquitoes 🦟
After 7 years @itmantwerp.bsky.social , thx you for the warm farewell & kind words!
My final fieldwork week brought Belgium’s first tiger mosquitoes of the year 🇧🇪
Now onwards @rentokilinitial.bsky.social, the mission continues!

TIME100 Health: Placide Mbala Find out why Placide Mbala is on the TIME100 Health 2025 list.

💥 ITM alumnus Dr Placide Mbala has done it again — now named among @TIME’s 100 most influential people in health! His discovery of a new mpox strain in DRC changed global response strategies. Proud moment for our work together in the Mbote Project. 👏 Congrats!
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Fexinidazole for human African trypanosomiasis: the challenge of accessibility This issue of The Lancet Global Health features two Articles on fexinidazole treatment for human African trypanosomiasis. One Article by Victor Kumeso and colleagues1 on gambiense human African trypan...

Mwamba, Pasib & Hasker in @lancetgh.bsky.social: to avoid Human African Trypanosomiasis deaths & make best use of investments made in #fexinidazole, it is now crucial to ensure #accessibility in remote sub-Saharan #Africa areas #HAT #NCD @itmantwerp.bsky.social
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✨ Thank you to Antwerp Diner for their incredible donation of € 44 000! Thanks to this our project on injectable PrEP for HIV prevention in Flanders is moving forward. This will have a big impact on advancing sexual health and HIV prevention in our community. ❤

Next edition 📆 07/12/2025 - Antwerp.

Immunization for all is humanly possible, but often practically impossible for millions of forcibly #displaced people. We need more research&resources: if #Health is a human #right, immunization should not leave anyone behind
#WorldImmunizationWeek
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Malaria remains a major health challenge in Peru. Progress has been slow & obstacles persist. What's holding us back? Can tools like malaria molecular surveillance (MMS) turn the tide? ITM PhD student Luis Cabrera Sosa's explores these urgent questions on 29/4 🧠👉 Register: www.itg.be/en/events/al...

🦟Malaria is still taking lives. Experts are racing to stop the disease. Join their journey in our podcast Transmission. Episode 4 is out today!
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Inequities in #spatial access to childbirth care in Conakry, Guinea. Published in Nature Cities

► Disparities in #geographic access to facilities providing childbirth care

► Driven by skewed spatial distribution of facilities, heavy traffic & socio-economic disadvantage

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💊 What happens when war dismantles a nation's healthcare system? Pharmacist and researcher @salehaljadeeah.bsky.social has seen the answer firsthand in Syria. Read his story about resilience, hope and the fight for a better future in a war-affected setting:
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Group picture of attendees of the 12th International EMCA Conference 2025

🦟 Exotic mosquitoes are heading north. Are we ready to swat back? Proud to have hosted the 12th EMCA conference, where 174 experts from 33 countries discussed the threat of mosquito-borne diseases.

💪 Let's work together & turn insights into action!
💡 Highlights: shorturl.at/OS9tB

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