TBFighters
A collective committed to fighting the structural causes of #tuberculosis (TB). TBFighters lead by following and act with compassion! #TimeFor5 TBFighters.org
- Are you running out of ways to start conversations about #Tuberculosis? Let your tote do the talking! TBFighters merch: available now at DFTBA. #TBHillDay attendees, order before Feb 13th 🛒 store.dftba.com/collections/tbfighters
- Our reading period for STIGMATIZED: A Mongolian Girl's Journey from Stigma & Illness to Empowerment has begun! Follow along with author Handaa Enkh-Amgalan's experience of being diagnosed with TB at just age 15. Order STIGMATIZED now or request it at your local library: tbfighters.org/book-club
- Only ONE MONTH until #TBHillDay! The weather in DC might not be hot to go but we sure are (and so is TBFighters merch at DFTBA: store.dftba.com/collections/tbfighters)
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- TBFighting merch is LIVE on our @dftbarecords.bsky.social store! There's never been a more important time to tell every person you meet about #Tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease. Now your shirt, tote bag, and stickers can help! store.dftba.com/collections/tbfighters
- If you have high quality TB gear on your 2026 bingo card, you're gonna love tomorrow's announcement! 👀
- Did you miss our talk with Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee about Search-Treat-Prevent? You can watch it and all past TB Ed Talks streams any time on our Youtube channel!
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- The first TB Ed Talk of 2026 is TODAY at 8pm ET with Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee! Join us to learn about a crucial strategy to eliminate #Tuberculosis: Search-Treat-Prevent. youtube.com/live/iiw9EqjWFrg?
- Tomorrow is 2026's first TB Ed Talk with Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee! Tune in to learn about Search-Treat-Prevent: a strategy to eliminate #Tuberculosis. Watch with us here: youtube.com/live/iiw9EqjWFrg? #IDSky #TBSky
- Only a few days until 2026's first TB Ed Talk with Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee! Tune in to learn about Search-Treat-Prevent: a strategy to eliminate #Tuberculosis. Submit questions at the link below or ask questions live: forms.gle/nyS52pM93bwathQ66 #IdSky #TBSky
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- Oh, look, the postcards we sent last year at Hill Day just arrived! Check out what #TBHillDay participants had to say about their experience advocating on the Hill
- Wealth has a large impact on quality of care, or even if one gets care, as individuals like Dr. Robitzek saw in his personal and professional life. How does income impact a person’s experience with TB, both today and in the past? #TBReaders
- Less than an hour till we start!
- We're gonna make it through this year (and end TB)! Join #TBFighters and special guests, including experts from @PIH.org and @TreatmentActionGroup.org, tomorrow at 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT for a review of 2025's biggest moments in TB fighting: www.youtube.com/live...
- We're gonna make it through this year (and end TB)! Join #TBFighters and special guests, including experts from @PIH.org and @TreatmentActionGroup.org, tomorrow at 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT for a review of 2025's biggest moments in TB fighting: www.youtube.com/live...
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- We've almost made it through another year! Join #TBFighters and special guests, including @PIH.org advocacy experts Vincent and Rosie, on Wednesday, December 17th at 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT for a review of 2025's biggest moments in TB fighting: www.youtube.com/live...
- We're no longer "Looking for Alaska", but we are looking for more attendees in Wyoming, North Dakota, Hawaii, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and South Dakota. Apply to join us at #TBHillDay 2026: tbfighters.org/hill-...
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- Less than an hour until our third-ever TB Ed Talk with @msfaccess.org's Dr Stijn Deborggraeve! Tune in to learn why diagnosing TB in children is so difficult and how we can work together to do better. Join us and ask questions live: www.youtube.com/live... #PedSky #IdSky #TBSky
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- Reposted by TBFightersOn World Children’s Day (20 Nov 2025), TB activists and MSF marched in solidarity with children affected by tuberculosis at the Union World Conference on Lung Health in Copenhagen. To learn more about MSF’s work and engagement on TB in children, visit: www.msf.org/tactic-tuber...
- Only one week until our third-ever TB Ed Talk with @msfaccess.org's Dr Stijn Deborggraeve! Tune in to learn why diagnosing TB in children is so difficult and how we can work together to do better. Submit questions at the link below or ask questions live: docs.google.com/form... #PedSky #IdSky #TBSky
- Henry Reider, his mother Isatu, and @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social were invited to speak at the Union World Conference on Lung Health last week! However, much like Henry's struggle with TB, Henry and Isatu's path to get to the conference was not an easy one #WCLH2025 #TBSky
- What if you could fight back against the dismantling of USAID by speaking to those in power about the importance of global health aid? And you could open the door for TB experts and survivors to share their experiences with decision makers? tbfighters.org/hill-day/
- We're still Looking For Alaska (and Arkansas, Hawaii, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia, & Wyoming) to join us this year at #TBHillDay 2026! tbfighters.org/hill-day/
- The #TBHillDay 2026 application has been open for less than a week, and already ONE HUNDRED people have signed up! Now's your chance to join @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social and a couple hundred of your closest #Tuberculosis fighting friends in Washington DC to fight worldsuck! tbfighters.org/hill-...
- #Tuberculosis kills 1.25 million people every year. This isn't because we can't cure it—it's because we let it kill. That's why we're going to DC to advocate for funding. Want to support #TBHillDay 2026? You can donate to help survivors, advocates, and experts get to DC: act.pih.org/tb-hill-...
- A recurring theme we see in The Black Angels is nurses, especially black nurses, not being allowed to speak their minds, even when it was in the best interest of their patients. #TBReaders
- Starting soon!
- Thinking about attending #TBHillDay 2026? Join us this Sunday at 3 ET/12 PT for a kickoff stream! @PIH.org's Rosie Poling will explain what's going on in the advocacy world and why you should come to Hill Day. Plus, ask questions and get hyped with fellow TB haters! georgetown.zoom.us/j...
- The #TBHillDay 2026 application has been open for less than a week, and already ONE HUNDRED people have signed up! Now's your chance to join @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social and a couple hundred of your closest #Tuberculosis fighting friends in Washington DC to fight worldsuck! tbfighters.org/hill-...
- Chapter 4 of The Black Angels accounts how poverty and overcrowding led to higher rates of disease and death in the Black neighborhoods of Harlem. How are these the result of human choices and human-built systems? #TBReaders
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- Happening tomorrow! www.youtube.com/live/XBqQUT1...
- Thinking about attending #TBHillDay 2026? Join us this Sunday at 3 ET/12 PT for a kickoff stream! @PIH.org's Rosie Poling will explain what's going on in the advocacy world and why you should come to Hill Day. Plus, ask questions and get hyped with fellow TB haters! georgetown.zoom.us/j...
- Get ready TB Haters: the #TBHillDay 2026 application is open now! In 2025, over two hundred TB survivors, experts, and advocates traveled to Washington DC to advocate for #Tuberculosis funding. Join us March 2-3, 2026 to do it again: tbfighters.org/hill-day
- Have you missed any of our live streamed discussions with #Tuberculosis doctors, experts, and authors? All past TB Ed Talks and #TBReaders streams are available to watch any time on our Youtube channel! 🎙️TB Ed Talks: youtube.com/playlist?lis... 📚TBReaders: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- "Black nurses could work only in Black hospitals, and in the late 1920s, America registered 210 Black hospitals, compared with 6,807 white ones." With disparities this dramatic, it's no wonder many had doubts about hospitals, but dedicated advocates like Edna show how to meet people where they're at
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- "When we talk about 'funding gaps', we're talking about over a million people dying needlessly each year of TB." Hear about @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's trip to the Philippines, #Tuberculosis as a path into a larger obsession, & what #GlobalHealth funding gaps really mean
- The beginning of The Black Angels introduces us to the story and accomplishments of the African American nurses at Sea View Hospital on Staten Island. For decades, much of their story was preserved by word of mouth, not archived or written about. #TBReaders
- Lesotho was on track to meet UNAIDS' goal of ending the #AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030. Until it lost 23% of #PEPFAR funds. Now, community clinics are closed and patients don't have access to treatment:
- The process of finding a TB treatment regimen that works can be a difficult ordeal. Masla's poem Letter From My Left Arm was a "way of accounting [her] efforts to death." Watch the whole #TBReaders livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xx1... #Tuberculosis #Poetry
- #TBReaders Book Club had an amazing time reading The Underdream by Aiyana Masla. Want to be a part of our next read? Join our Book Club discord server here: tbfighter.link/tbrea... Shoutout to AngienessNotFound for the picture!
- Reposted by TBFightersI’m moderating a panel of TB experts on the vlogbrothers youtube channel! Tune in on November 13th at 9 am EST.
- Not infectious ≠ not affected! Check out our latest TB Ed Talk with Dr. Carole Mitnick, where she shares the importance of patient centered care that continues post-TB. Plus a CTA that's right up our alley (spoiler: it involves memes) www.youtube.com/watc... #TBSky #MedSky #IDSky #PublicHealth
- Our next book club read is the most requested title since we started #TBReaders ! Get hyped for Maria Smilios' The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis. Order it now or request it at your local library: tbfighters.org/book-...
- Dismantling #USAID and halting #ForeignAid is a huge set back in our work to #EndTB, but there's still reason for hope! Check out @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's video from the Philippines where he gives an update on the project to eliminate TB on Guimaras Island www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxmq...
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- Only one hour until our second ever TB Ed Talk with the brilliant Dr. Carole Mitnick! Tune in to learn about post-TB #LungDisease from an expert in the field, and ask questions live in chat:
- Have a question for @pih.org's Dr. Carole Mitnick? Now's your chance to ask! She joins us tomorrow to talk about post-TB lung disease at our second ever TB Ed Talk. Learn more & submit questions: tbfighters.org/tb-ed... #TBSky #MedSky
- You don't have to travel the globe to find economic injustice, "it is wherever we are." Luckily, so are the tools to fight injustice! Join us Monday, Oct 27 for our next TB Ed Talk with @pih.org's Carole Mitnick about post-TB lung disease: tbfighters.org/tb-ed-talks #EconomicJustice #LungDisease
