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Good lesson.

Share this. Help restore the diagnostic pipeline—lives depend on it.
#TBLogisticsCrisis #SampleTransport #DiagnosticChain #RuralHealth #EndTB

We’re creating diagnostic blind spots where TB spreads unseen.
This isn’t “just logistics”—it’s life-saving infrastructure for TB prevention and care.
📊 Evidence comes from ourTB Specific Impact Survey, conducted during the Stop TB Work Orders (180 responses across 39 countries).

.... and it never reaches the lab.

No transport → no diagnosis → delayed treatment → avoidable harm.

Rural communities are hit hardest:

● Samples left waiting in clinics

● Cold chain not maintained

● Courier routes suspended

● Fuel shortages halt transport

From @tbcommunityhub.bsky.social
🚨 THE CRITICAL LINK IS FAILING: Sample transport is the lifeline of TB diagnosis—and it’s breaking.
● 35% completely stopped 🛑

● 23% reduced to critical levels 📉
= 58% of sample transport disrupted
What this means: A person with TB symptoms gives a sample…

URGENT: Share this before more lives are lost to guesswork.

#DiagnosticCrisis #TBTestingDisrupted #HealthSystemFailure #NoTestNoTreatment #EndTB

Even more alarming: 33% of organizations reported not providing testing at all. We cannot go back to the dark ages of medicine.

📊 These findings come from our TB Specific Impact Survey, conducted during the Stop TB Work Orders, with 180 responses from 39 countries.

Without lab confirmation:
❌ Wrong treatment may be given
❌ Drug resistance goes undetected
❌ Deadly delays increase
❌ Treatment outcomes worsen

A health worker without diagnostics is like a pilot flying blind in a storm.

This is a dangerous step backwards in public health.

From @tbcommunityhub.bsky.social
DIAGNOSTIC DISRUPTION: We can’t fight what we can’t diagnose.
● 27% of TB testing completely stopped 🚫

● 26% severely reduced ⚠️
= More than half of diagnostic capacity disrupted.

Translation: More people living with TB now go undiagnosed and unconfirmed.

📊 This evidence comes from our TB Specific Impact Survey, conducted during the Stop TB Work Orders with 180 responses from 39 countries.

SHARE THIS. Make it impossible to ignore.
#TBCrisis #ScreeningSavesLives #RestoreTBFunding #PublicHealthEmergency #EndTB

This isn’t just numbers. This is your neighbor. Your colleague. Your child’s teacher.
Every day of inaction = more infections, more deaths, more drug resistance.
The funding freeze has created a ticking time bomb. We CANNOT let TB win.

From @tbcommunityhub.bsky.social
🚨 RING THE ALARM: Nearly half of TB screening services have stopped.
Right now, while you read this, people living with TB are going undiagnosed. Untreated. Left without access to care and unable to protect their families.
● 46% stopped ❌

● 37% scaled down 📉

Undernutrition remains one of the most significant drivers of the TB epidemic globally. Check out these new guidelines and recommendations from @who.int to tackle undernutrition and food insecurity and #EndTB.

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World leaders, are you listening? The data is overwhelming. The time for action is NOW. Restore funding and programs to #EndTB
#TBServicesDisrupted #GlobalHealthCrisis #RestoreTBFunding #EndTB

What “severe impact” really means:
❌ Clinics closing
❌ Health staff terminated
❌ People lost to follow-up mid-treatment
❌ Communities left without access to diagnosis
Only 9% reported no disruption, so 91% of participants are struggling.

These aren’t just statistics, these are lives at stake.

H/t @tbcommunityhub.bsky.social

THE EVIDENCE IS UNDENIABLE: worldwide disruption of TB prevention and care.
● 52% report severe impact 🚨
● 24% report significant impact ⚠️
This is evidence from the TB Specific Impact Survey, conducted during the Stop TB Work Orders: 180 responses from 39 countries.

Who's most at risk?
- Nearly 1 in 4 new TB cases in 2024 were in people 65+
- Many Medicare recipients face added risks

Ask your members of Congress to urge CMS to start the long-delayed review for Medicare LTBI testing coverage.
Take action at stoptbusa.org/take-action

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Healthy lungs = a healthier world. Let's act this World Lung day.
#endTB #worldlungday #stoptbnow

Testing for latent TB infection (LTBI) saves lives and money. But Medicare has stalled...
- Over 25 organizations called on CMS to act nearly 2 years ago.
-TB cases are the highest in a decade.
- Older Americans are at greater risk.
@globalsentinels.bsky.social @tbfighters.org @wearetb.bsky.social

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Come with questions.

Heads up everyone:

Months ago the CDC said the last day to order publications on demand was September 2.

Now according to their website, it's this Friday, August 15.

wwwn.cdc.gov/pubs/

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And then there's the human benefit...

What is TB? PDFs (in both original and printer-friendly form) are downloadable at linktr.ee/stoptbusa

It's not just about food and medicine, it's about infrastructure that delivers supplies to those in need, and when that's gone you simply cannot turn on an aid spigot in a moment of decency.

@pih.org shows the way for you to take action, make your voice heard.

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Readers of the StopTB Wire know we've written about this book twice: once from a pTB survivor and once from a woman of color who has a medical degree. Read the book, and you'll see why it deserves such extensive attention from multiple angles.