🩸 Sunday marks the first-ever #WorldPPHDay. A new commentary reflects on progress since the launch of the PPH Roadmap, and why urgent, coordinated action is needed to end preventable deaths from PPH—still a leading cause of maternal mortality. 🔗 bit.ly/3IMs0qm

Powerful opinion piece in today’s NYT from Perri Klass (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o... #PedsID #IDSky #PedsSky

Michael Marmot: “There’s enough in the world to make one despair. But we know what must be done—we just have to do it” www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Postpartum hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal death worldwide. Unitaid is working with @jhpiego.org to scale up use of calibrated drapes – simple tools that allow health workers to detect dangerous bleeding quickly and accurately. Learn more: unitaid.org/news-blog/un...

Rural Patients Face Tough Choices When Their Hospitals Stop Delivering Babies kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

Learn more about the Midwifery Accelerator, a global initiative led by UNFPA, @who.int , @unicef.org , the @internationalmidwives.org, Jhpiego, and partners to ensure midwives are equipped and supported to deliver high-quality, respectful care: www.unfpa.org/publications...

Midwives are essential to health system resilience. By achieving universal coverage of midwife-delivered care by 2035, we could avert 67% of maternal deaths, 64% of newborn deaths, and 65% of stillbirths—saving 4.3 million lives every year. #IDM2025

With maternal mortality declining just 2.5% per year since 2016, we must act faster. The REACH trial, led by Unitaid and partners, could help deliver a transformative medicine to more women, no matter where they give birth. Every life counts. Learn more: unitaid.org/news-blog/cl...

Today is International Day for Maternal Health and Rights 🤰🏾🤱🏻 (thread) Earlier this week, WHO and partners released the latest estimates on trends in maternal mortality (bit.ly/42kB7UK). We have made tremendous strides.

Según la Dra Suzanne Serruya, esté año, por primera vez, la OMS y la OPS han decidido que nuestro enfoque en salud maternal y neonatal no solamente dirigiría las actividades del #DíaMundialDeSalud sino que también las de todo el año. Porque las madres y los neonatos SÍ importan. 💪🤰🏽🤱👶🏿

This #WorldHealthDay, I'm reminded just how much progress we've made in improving maternal survival ... and just how much work we still have to do to ensure that all moms can thrive. Latest trends data are here --> cdn.who.int/media/docs/d... Onwards.

LAUNCHING NOW! UNAIDS wants to hear from you! Your insights, lived experiences, and ideas will help shape the Global AIDS Strategy 2026-2031. Have your say. Take 15 minutes to fill out our survey: surveymonkey.com/r/SJN6RXX #endAIDS #GlobalAIDSStrategy2031

Closing on Monday! ➡️ lancetcountdown.org/join-our-team/

"The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) has made a groundbreaking US$150 million commitment, a five-fold increase from its previous contribution."

Trans and gender-diverse patients should be able to access inclusive, thoughtful, and respectful care without restrictions, burdens, or stigma. ACOG continues to be committed to uplifting and supporting trans and gender-diverse patients, who are a vital part of communities everywhere.

The US axing funding for contraception will cause a 12% increase in global maternal mortality. That's another 34,000 women who will die due to pregnancy and childbirth. It will cause another 17.1 million unintended pregnancies, and 5.2 million unsafe abortions www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

Did you know that many cases of childhood hearing loss are preventable? A recent study showed that vaccines could prevent up to 40% of childhood hearing loss caused by infections like #measles, #meningitis and #rubella.

Some very bad news: New modelling predicts up to 10 million additional HIV infections following aid cuts www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

“By Gavi’s own estimate, the loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result.”

Visiting PhD fellowships with the good people at @unu-wider.bsky.social - including on tax and public finance! Please share widely www.wider.unu.edu/opportunity/...

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

La santé des femmes doit être une priorité. Renforcer les systèmes de santé et garantir un accès équitable aux soins améliore non seulement leur bien-être, mais aussi celui des communautés et des économies. Il est temps d’agir. Pour en savoir plus : unitaid.org/fr/news-blog...

World Book Day reading for future visioning… “Freedom Farmers: Agricultural resistance and the Black Freedom Movement” by Monica M. White Because farming is a praxis of food justice, which itself is co-constitutive of reproductive justice.

📣 PMNCH is shaping its Strategic Plan 2026-2030, & we need YOUR insights to build a bold, impactful roadmap for women’s, children’s & adolescents’ health. 🤔 How can you participate? 👇 📄 Review the Strategy Working Paper 🗓️ Share your feedback by March 14 pmnch.who.int/news-and-eve...

Excellent analysis on the social implications of COVID (or any similar health emergency, for that matter) There’s been similar, though smaller scale, fallout from other epidemics, like Ebola and SARS www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

These authors have done the Lord's work in synthesising multidisciplinary meta-analyses of individual & structural determinants of behaviour. What a fantastic overview. Hats off! Focus on removing social & structural barriers rather than targeting knowledge & beliefs! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Request for proposals: Systematic reviews to inform WHO guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma in primary care www.ungm.org/public/Notic...

Do you need a measles booster? (Talk to your health care provider - chart is a general guideline) www.npr.org/sections/sho...

We have up to 15 positions open for the CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellowship — now with more time to apply. In California, we're proud to place scientists directly into the Legislature, State Agencies, and Offices of the California @governor.ca.gov to inform our policies. #scipol #scicomm

Global health colleagues - we are looking for small project opportunities for our local partner in South Sudan, who unfortunately has been defunded due to USAID cuts. They are a grassroots org working on HIV, general diagnostics literacy, & refugee support. 📩 me if there are any opportunities.

“This is exactly what we predicted would happen and exactly what we were afraid would happen” Devastating, important reporting from @propublica.org #MaternalHealth #ReproSky #MedSky #HealthSky

Combatting anaemia with new guidelines and innovative tools to enhance measurement, interpretation and reporting of haemoglobin concentrations. Anaemia affects 3 out of 10 women and 4 out of 10 children globally. #publichealth www.who.int/news/item/13...

This World Anemia Awareness Day, we call for greater action to close the gaps in maternal health. With our latest $50M investment, we are accelerating access to innovative solutions for anemia and pre-eclampsia, preventing complications and saving lives. Learn more: unitaid.org/news-blo...

Please advise if there is a way to access without the paywall. Public health requires collective action and solidarity. We cannot make good decisions when only some have access to critical information.

The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying. pepfarimpact.vercel.app

My university library is assembling a list of resources for disappeared US government #data. Check it out: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue

Pinning my new project: blackness and assisted reproduction. Looking to interview Black parents, Black egg/sperm donors and clinicians and fertility workers who've worked with Black patients. Drop me a DM! #sociology #reproduction #interviews #research

Open Call for Joining the WHO Health Inequality Monitoring Network www.who.int/news-room/ar...

Solidarity is not transactional. If you're supporting someone's human rights only out of the expectation they'll do the same, you don't understand solidarity. Everyone deserves human rights. Everyone, everywhere. And no one is free until we all have them.

Groundbreaking Ebola vaccination trial launches in Uganda! #PublicHealth 🛟 #Ebola www.who.int/news/item/03...

The CDC page is down, but @who.int has Medical Eligibility for Contraception materials available, including in an app. Please spread the word. #ReproSky www.who.int/news/item/29...

I'm biased here because this has been my take all along, but still. If you *really* don't want people to overinterpret your associations, provide alternative explanations!

Finished Hwang Sok-Yong’s Mater 2-10 last week and I’m still buzzing. It follows a working class Korean family over a century, through the rise and fall of fascist Imperial Japan, painting an intimate portrait of resistance. But that’s like calling 100 Years of Solitude a story about a family.

“That dynamic has implications for American businesses, allowing pharmaceutical & health technology companies to operate in countries that adhere closely to W.H.O. recommendations, said Anil Soni, chief executive of the W.H.O. Foundation, an independent entity that facilitates partnerships& funding”

“Countries that do not have the equivalent of a C.D.C. or a Food and Drug Administration rely on the W.H.O. for public health guidelines, childhood vaccinations and drug approvals… “Ministries of health typically won’t move unless there’s a W.H.O. guideline,” said Dr. Chris Beyrer”

EXCLUSIVE: Countries Might Weigh Costs & Prioritize Items on WHO’s Agenda; Targets for Membership Fees at Risk Even as WHO Seeks 9% Hike for 2026-2027 Budget genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/countries-... Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #248 [The Files In-Depth]

We see you. WHO is grateful for the love 💙 and messages of support we received. We stand by you. #HealthForAll

Wait wait Andrew Wakefield was getting literal kickbacks from a personal injury lawyer and was patenting his own vaccine? Antivax not just as grift but outright corruption www.thetimes.com/article/andr...

Good thread to keep up with the mountain of changes