A summary of what we have learnt from the mentoring programme in TriageTB and some recommendations for establishing successful mentoring programmes
On 25-26 Nov 2023, TriageTB and ENDxTB members could finally come together again for their joint project meeting, where four young researchers opened the plenary session on Day 2.
Next to her involvement in TriageTB, AnnRitah Namuganga is pursuing a PhD in immunology and molecular biology at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.
In April, TriageTB hosted two student presentation sessions in collaboration with its sisterproject, ENDxTB.
A conversation with Awa Gindeh, a Junior Researcher at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at LSHTM and a mentee in TriageTB’s mentoring scheme.
Two years into the project, the TriageTB consortium came together virtually for its Year 2 Annual Meeting on November 15-16, this year with our sister project, ENDxTB.
The TriageTB consortium has kicked off recruitment for the second part of the study in South Africa, the Gambia, and Uganda. Vietnam is scheduled to start recruiting shortly.
The AE-TBC consortium received the Outstanding Research Team Prize at the virtual EDCTP Forum 2021 on October 21.
TriageTB’s Coordinating Institution, Stellenbosch University (SUN), in Cape Town, South Africa, has put together a 5-minue video that provides an overview of how the ongoing pandem
TriageTB's funder, the European and Developing Countries Clinical Partnership (EDCTP), published its Annual Report 2020 on June 30, 2021.
The first recruitment phase is scheduled to run until the end of April this year. By then, the goal is to have enrolled approximately 50 participants per site.
One year into the project, the TriageTB consortium got together virtually for the Year 1 Meeting on November 16-17, 2020.
TriageTB's new sister project ENDxTB will compare an array of novel tuberculosis tests to identify the best tests for diverse situations and patient groups.
Two years after the UN High Level Meeting on Tuberculosis, the WHO released a progress report last week to take stock of progress made in meeting the global TB targets.
TriageTB's funder, the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), published its Annual Report 2019 on August 14, 2020.
Prof Dockrell, Lead for Capacity Building, designed the TriageTB capacity scheme to foster active and mutually beneficial mentoring relationships over long distance.
The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) and the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) have developed a free online course on COVID-19 diagnostics and testing.
The work of TriageTB consortium members Dr Paul Corstjens and Professor Annemieke Geluk was featured in an article in the local Dutch newspaper Leidsch Dagblad on 4 December 2019.
The consortium led by Stellenbosch University will field-validate a rapid point-of-care triage test for active tuberculosis (TB) to make testing faster and easier
Building on the experience gained in previous joint projects, capacity strengthening is a central element in the TriageTB work plan and one of the project’s key objectives.
