Pilar Garcia-Vello
@pilargvello.bsky.social
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Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Epidemiology Working for Doctors without Borders #MSF Former: #WHO #LSHTM #MarieCurieFellowship #AMR #medsky #episky #microsky #aidsky #idsky
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Doctors can't stop genocide, world leaders can

#Gaza #MSF #Humanitarian #Genocide
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📢 STOP THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA

Israeli forces have purposefully and systematically destroyed the conditions necessary for life in Gaza. Nowhere is safe.

World leaders must act to end their complicity in this genocide.

Doctors can't stop genocide, world leaders can.

Read more: bit.ly/42fRgvR
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🌍 Is there a #MSF lab near you?

🌞 MSF builds labs where diagnostics are scarce
🦠 Because the right test = the right treatment
🔬 Our #Gaza lab was one of them — healthcare facilities must be respected

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#AMR #GlobalHealth #Diagnostics #MSF #MicroSky
MSF run, supported and validated laboratories, current and planned
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#Ebola is back in #DRC

MSF is already responding

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCrO...

#IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky #outbreaks
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Ibuprofen and acetaminophen significantly increased mutation frequency and conferred high-level ciprofloxacin resistance
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#AMR #Medsky #Episky #IDsky #Microsky
Reposted by Pilar Garcia-Vello
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Please don't let this be true: the UK government couldn't possibly consider cutting funding for one of the major organisations working in the field of treatment resistant bacteria...could they? Surely they wouldn't do something that short sighted...would they?

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Closure of the Fleming Fund risks undermining UK leadership on AMR - The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
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Reposted by Pilar Garcia-Vello
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Great ID modelling opportunity to aim for real impact on mitigating and monitoring AMR in sub-Saharan Africa. You'll work closely with us @ox.ac.uk, and Oxford’s Modernising Medical Microbiology group, as well as collaborators at CRUN (Burkina Faso) and KWRTP-KEMRI (Kenya). tinyurl.com/mry25kxe
Epidemiologist
Epidemiologist for modelling AMR transmission in LMICMore than 500 staff members at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) contribute e...
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If you are a 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁 who wants to help others while traveling,𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 needs you!

www.orthosurgeon.msf.org/en/job/micro...
#hiring @msf.ca #microsky #sciencesky #AMR
Microbiology Mobile Implementation Officer
Microbiology Mobile Implementation Officer, Medical, NGO, Humanitarian Job, MSF Belgium, Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium
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A powerful image to 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿 civilians affected by #conflict and the healthcare workers trying to 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 them

#War must end. But while it continues, civilians and medical staff must be 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱

#Congo #Gaza #Syria #Sudan #Ukraine #Yemen
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@msf.ca #humanitarian
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Happy #InternationalNursesDay!!
🎉

And thank you for your essential contribution to the health of the patients!

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WHO @who.int · May 11
On #InternationalNursesDay, we honour the 30 million nurses who are the heart of health systems worldwide.

WHO urges accelerated investments to avoid a projected 4 million #nurse shortage by 2030.

Because when nurses are supported, everyone thrives 🔗 bit.ly/42SkqBL
A group of diverse nurses from around the world, including women and men, are smiling and working in different health care settings. The background features a light green globe design. Text reads: “30 million nurses are the heart of health systems worldwide.
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At the #ESCMIDGlobal in Vienna, @msf.ca presented key research on #AMR:

🧪 Salmonella and #HIV in #DRC
📈 Antibiotic use in #Syria
🦠 #NICU outbreaks in #CAR and #Afghanistan
💊 Vancomycin dose monitoring in #Gaza
📚 SR on AMR in #Mozambique

Thank you!

#medsky #episky #microsky @escmid.bsky.social
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@msf.ca is at #ESCMIDGlobal talking about #AMR!

Pass by our booth to know more about our work!

#Viena @escmid.bsky.social
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@msf.ca continue to fight #cholera in #Yemen

In 2024, the country faced over 250,000 suspected cholera cases and 861 associated deaths. The threat continues in 2025.

This preventable disease should not cost lives!

#HumanitarianCrisis #PublicHealth #mesky #microsky #episky #vaccination #wash
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In Maiduguri, #Nigeria, #AMR sepsis is killing children with #malnutrition

@msf.ca is fighting back with IPC, AMS & D&S - but this crisis won't end without food security and holistic health programs

#medsky #microsky