Hailemichael D Mekonnen MD, PhD
@hailemichaeld.bsky.social
#Hepatology, Director Sub-Saharan Africa Gastroenterology iECHO
🇪🇹 Two weeks to COLDA 2026.
The 9th Conference on Liver Disease in Africa opens 17 September at the Hilton Addis Ababa.
📣 3 days of capacity building
🦠 Viral hepatitis
🎗️ Liver cancer
🫀 Transplantation
🍽️ Metabolic liver disease
See you in Addis 👋
#COLDA2026 #LiverTwitter
The 9th Conference on Liver Disease in Africa opens 17 September at the Hilton Addis Ababa.
📣 3 days of capacity building
🦠 Viral hepatitis
🎗️ Liver cancer
🫀 Transplantation
🍽️ Metabolic liver disease
See you in Addis 👋
#COLDA2026 #LiverTwitter
September 7, 2026 at 2:23 AM
🇪🇹 Two weeks to COLDA 2026.
The 9th Conference on Liver Disease in Africa opens 17 September at the Hilton Addis Ababa.
📣 3 days of capacity building
🦠 Viral hepatitis
🎗️ Liver cancer
🫀 Transplantation
🍽️ Metabolic liver disease
See you in Addis 👋
#COLDA2026 #LiverTwitter
The 9th Conference on Liver Disease in Africa opens 17 September at the Hilton Addis Ababa.
📣 3 days of capacity building
🦠 Viral hepatitis
🎗️ Liver cancer
🫀 Transplantation
🍽️ Metabolic liver disease
See you in Addis 👋
#COLDA2026 #LiverTwitter
I am honored to serve as Local Chair for COLDA.We welcome clinicians, researchers, trainees, policymakers, and partners from across Africa and around the world. #corporatesupport
#COLDA2026 #Hepatology #LiverDisease #GlobalHealth #Ethiopia #MedicalEducation #CapacityBuilding #Africa
#COLDA2026 #Hepatology #LiverDisease #GlobalHealth #Ethiopia #MedicalEducation #CapacityBuilding #Africa
August 5, 2026 at 10:14 AM
I am honored to serve as Local Chair for COLDA.We welcome clinicians, researchers, trainees, policymakers, and partners from across Africa and around the world. #corporatesupport
#COLDA2026 #Hepatology #LiverDisease #GlobalHealth #Ethiopia #MedicalEducation #CapacityBuilding #Africa
#COLDA2026 #Hepatology #LiverDisease #GlobalHealth #Ethiopia #MedicalEducation #CapacityBuilding #Africa
Our recent work published in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology.
📌 … directly informed the 2024 WHO guideline update, supporting simplified and expanded treatment criteria.
🔑 takeaways
•when to initiate treatment
•When treatment can be deferred
Link:- www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📌 … directly informed the 2024 WHO guideline update, supporting simplified and expanded treatment criteria.
🔑 takeaways
•when to initiate treatment
•When treatment can be deferred
Link:- www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 24, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Our recent work published in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology.
📌 … directly informed the 2024 WHO guideline update, supporting simplified and expanded treatment criteria.
🔑 takeaways
•when to initiate treatment
•When treatment can be deferred
Link:- www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📌 … directly informed the 2024 WHO guideline update, supporting simplified and expanded treatment criteria.
🔑 takeaways
•when to initiate treatment
•When treatment can be deferred
Link:- www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Great work by our team!!!, For those with HBV DNA concentrations <2000 IU/mL and persistently normal ALT concentrations, treatment can be deferred.
March 20, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Great work by our team!!!, For those with HBV DNA concentrations <2000 IU/mL and persistently normal ALT concentrations, treatment can be deferred.
Reposted by Hailemichael D Mekonnen MD, PhD
The May 2025 issue of The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology is out now at www.thelancet.com/gastrohep!
Including content on achalasia, kidney injury in cirrhosis, viral hepatitis, alcohol use disorder, inflammatory bowel disease, liver cancer & more.
#GastroSky #MedSky #OncSky #IDSky #LiverSky
Including content on achalasia, kidney injury in cirrhosis, viral hepatitis, alcohol use disorder, inflammatory bowel disease, liver cancer & more.
#GastroSky #MedSky #OncSky #IDSky #LiverSky
April 10, 2025 at 5:32 AM
The May 2025 issue of The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology is out now at www.thelancet.com/gastrohep!
Including content on achalasia, kidney injury in cirrhosis, viral hepatitis, alcohol use disorder, inflammatory bowel disease, liver cancer & more.
#GastroSky #MedSky #OncSky #IDSky #LiverSky
Including content on achalasia, kidney injury in cirrhosis, viral hepatitis, alcohol use disorder, inflammatory bowel disease, liver cancer & more.
#GastroSky #MedSky #OncSky #IDSky #LiverSky
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February 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Join us for a biweekly educational series @projectechohq.bsky.social
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TAF reduces the risk of liver-related serious adverse events in adults w/ non-cirrhotic chronic hepatitis B & moderate or high viraemia but normal/mildly elevated ALT
Data suggest guidelines should allow early therapy in patients with a moderate or high viral load
#LiverSky #MedSky #IDSky #HepSky
Data suggest guidelines should allow early therapy in patients with a moderate or high viral load
#LiverSky #MedSky #IDSky #HepSky
New research - Early antiviral treatment with tenofovir alafenamide to prevent serious clinical adverse events in adults with chronic hepatitis B and moderate or high viraemia (ATTENTION): interim results from a randomised controlled trial
tinyurl.com/4cvdy6h2
#LiverSky #IDSky #MedSky #HepSky
tinyurl.com/4cvdy6h2
#LiverSky #IDSky #MedSky #HepSky
February 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Reposted by Hailemichael D Mekonnen MD, PhD
The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology is now on Bluesky!
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February 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology is now on Bluesky!
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January 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Clinical significance Vs statistical significance
In the TB-CHAMP randomized, controlled trial involving children with household exposure to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, levofloxacin led to a lower incidence of tuberculosis than placebo, but the difference was not significant. Full trial results: nej.md/41AXgQd
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December 25, 2024 at 12:24 AM
Clinical significance Vs statistical significance
How 🐒 resist #Hepatitis B infection? #aminoacid differences in #NTCP species barriers for viruses #SARS-COV-2
December 15, 2024 at 11:55 PM
How 🐒 resist #Hepatitis B infection? #aminoacid differences in #NTCP species barriers for viruses #SARS-COV-2
Reposted by Hailemichael D Mekonnen MD, PhD
New Comment - Elimination of hepatitis B requires recognition of catastrophic costs for patients and their families
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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#HepSky #IDSky #LiverSky #MedSky
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December 14, 2024 at 6:32 AM
New Comment - Elimination of hepatitis B requires recognition of catastrophic costs for patients and their families
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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#HepSky #IDSky #LiverSky #MedSky
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Reposted by Hailemichael D Mekonnen MD, PhD
🧵 Combination Therapy for Chronic HBV Infection (a thread)
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) affects more than 3% of the world population and is responsible for approximately 1.1 million deaths annually.
Full article: nej.md/49nfu9F 1/15
#MedSky
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) affects more than 3% of the world population and is responsible for approximately 1.1 million deaths annually.
Full article: nej.md/49nfu9F 1/15
#MedSky
December 9, 2024 at 7:43 PM
🧵 Combination Therapy for Chronic HBV Infection (a thread)
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) affects more than 3% of the world population and is responsible for approximately 1.1 million deaths annually.
Full article: nej.md/49nfu9F 1/15
#MedSky
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) affects more than 3% of the world population and is responsible for approximately 1.1 million deaths annually.
Full article: nej.md/49nfu9F 1/15
#MedSky
Reposted by Hailemichael D Mekonnen MD, PhD
6. Church of St. George
This church is one of eleven in Ethiopia carved from solid rock, dating to the late 12th or early 13th century AD.
This church is one of eleven in Ethiopia carved from solid rock, dating to the late 12th or early 13th century AD.
November 28, 2024 at 12:10 AM
6. Church of St. George
This church is one of eleven in Ethiopia carved from solid rock, dating to the late 12th or early 13th century AD.
This church is one of eleven in Ethiopia carved from solid rock, dating to the late 12th or early 13th century AD.
Reposted by Hailemichael D Mekonnen MD, PhD
Over 800 million adults are now living with #diabetes worldwide with more than half not receiving treatment, global analysis suggests.
Explore the findings ▶️ bit.ly/3Be89wl
Explore the findings ▶️ bit.ly/3Be89wl
November 28, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Over 800 million adults are now living with #diabetes worldwide with more than half not receiving treatment, global analysis suggests.
Explore the findings ▶️ bit.ly/3Be89wl
Explore the findings ▶️ bit.ly/3Be89wl
Happy thanksgiving
November 28, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Happy thanksgiving
Reposted by Hailemichael D Mekonnen MD, PhD
Our latest issue came out last week, with an Editorial on incretin mimetics & obesity, new research on MASLD, intestinal ultrasound in IBD, HBV, & predicting CSPH. Also a great pair of reviews on IBS: one on diet, the other on personalised medicine
www.thelancet.com/gastrohep
#GastroSky #LiverSky
www.thelancet.com/gastrohep
#GastroSky #LiverSky
November 12, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Our latest issue came out last week, with an Editorial on incretin mimetics & obesity, new research on MASLD, intestinal ultrasound in IBD, HBV, & predicting CSPH. Also a great pair of reviews on IBS: one on diet, the other on personalised medicine
www.thelancet.com/gastrohep
#GastroSky #LiverSky
www.thelancet.com/gastrohep
#GastroSky #LiverSky