Rest in Peace, Jane 💔

ow price of lenacapavir for all who need it everywhere + adequate funding to deliver PrEP programmes-if leaders are serious about stopping AUDS as a public health problem www.scidev.net/global/news/...

This week, the world learned that a new HIV prevention drug will be available for $40/year in 120 countries by 2027. Yet millions of people in countries with growing HIV crises still are left out. Today, health groups came together to support access for everyone, everywhere.

If you think that private provider and insurance are the solution to get mental health services available to us in UK, think again. Here is the example from the US "America’s Mental Barrier How Insurers Interfere With Mental Health Care" www.propublica.org/series/ameri...

It was already going to be a challenge to get lenacapavir to the communities that need the new breakthrough #HIV prevention method most b/c of the price Gilead is charging. Then the Trump admin ended critical U.S. support to global HIV prevention efforts: theforsaken.substack.com/p/the-promis...

groundup.org.za/article/moza... Tell us how no one has died again?

Another SpaceX rocket explodes in new setback to Elon Musk’s Mars project

Excellent blog on lenacapavir by @ellenthoen medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/06/fda-...

By invitation . A new era of diabetes treatment meets old barriers Affordable access to diabetes treatments hinges on legal battles over patent monopolies By @LMenghaney www.thehindubusinessline.com/specials/pul...

Is this sane? The U.S. bought $12 million in aid for poor nations. Under Trump, it may be destroyed. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Africa needs 6.4 million mpox vaccines to address the outbreak-now concentrated in Sierra Leone us2.campaign-archive.com?e=b6b5cecd96... The vaccine is produced by one company only and is stockpiled in the North while the diseases is in the South. Did politicians learn anything from the HIV crisis?!

⚠️ South Africa: Lifesaving scientific research on prevention, testing, treatment and care for people living with #HIV and #tuberculosis is under serious threat due to funding suspensions and grant terminations U.S. government. msfaccess.org/us-funding-c...

Net Zero & economic growth can quite happily walk hand in hand "Electric plane tech centre to be built near Glasgow Airport" "Facility to develop & manufacture fuel cells for small electric planes could be in operation by 2028 creating around 350 jobs" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#People's Medicine Alliance reaction to adoption of the pandemic agreement at @who.int Here: peoplesmedicines.org/resources/me... @jkarpsawey.bsky.social

Kennedy Jr wants to start a new health organisation without political influence! just that it is influenced by US policies e.g. on gender ! He wants an organisation that supports unprecedented measles outbreak because of antivax?!!!

"Following PEPFAR cuts, vulnerable Ugandans are dying, providers say" Lydia Nabirye stopped taking her HIV medicines & died outside the eastern Ugandan town of Kamuli on March 26 after a U.S.-supported program was eliminated. She was 28 years old. @devex From devex.com

Really important comment about regulation of AI in healthcare from @hai-org.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...

x.com/i/status/190... ٍThe difference between singly payment system (public as in Canada and the UK #NHS) and multiple system (Australia public and private)

,"17 States have reported a total of 378 cases of measles" and 2 deaths for the first time in a decade. Still parents do not want to vaccinate their children. Amazing really

In 2023, 22% of total foreign aid for all Development Assistance Committee (DAC) countries was spent at home.

In 2023, 22% of total foreign aid for all Development Assistance Committee (DAC) countries was spent at home.

Aid to Africa? From 1980-2018, sub-Saharan Africa lost a staggering $1.3 trillion to illicit financial flow- annually $88.6 billion =3.7% of Africa GDP. Why not stop this. Instead it finances agriculture, health, education, research, social care and jobs.

🚨 The government’s #NHS England scrap raises more questions than answers. On Sky News, our Director Diarmaid:  “If we risk a large scale reorganisation without significantly increased funds, I have very grave concerns things are going to get worse instead of better.” ⬇️ youtube.com/shorts/GIrvj...

while many of us are focused on aid crisis and geopolitical interruptions in US relations, we shouldn't sleep on how much Trump's moves are empowering anti-democratic, anti-gay, anti-woman political leaders around the world. Their actions in last month are chilling and linked to goings on in DC...

Did you miss this piece of good news from Colombia? 🇨🇴 Thousands of people living with #HIV will get access to affordable and effective HIV treatment 👏 Miguel Angel Barria, ED of Red Somos, a sexual health organisation working with #LGBTQ people, welcomes this new development ⤵️

Amazing! on Ebola in Uganda "The collaboration of both governments (US & Uganda), “has thus far minimized the impact of this outbreak on U.S. citizens.” So tat's what matter. Never mind the death of a Ugandan mother and her 2 kids and the dangers to other Ugandan pple!

Suspected cases of #mpox are tested but there is no money to pay for transport of samples to labs. Testing in DRC dropped from 27% last week to 17% this week Thank you USA!! Time for African leaders to prioritise investment in public health and medical research.

Thanks to US administration run by billionaires: “People will die,” “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

Thank you @AnnelieseDodds for sticking to humanity's moral values " these cuts will remove food and healthcare from desperate people - deeply harming the UK's reputation.” I hope @Keir_Starmer look for ways to increase revenue by taxing billionaires instead of cutting aid.

@timschwab.bsky.social "we are reaching a tipping point with the way that extreme wealth corrupts democracy" Why has Bill Gates suddenly gone quiet on #aid for poor people's health ? He has not even talked about vaccines-his favourite life saviour? timschwab.substack.com/p/as-trump-a...

The amazing people of the US protesting against the US president' decision to let people die by stopping funding HIV and other health programs financed by #PEPFAR and shutting #USAID www.gettyimages.co.uk/editorial-im...

"USAID’s finance team called a staff member's child’s school abroad to inquire about refunding the tuition already paid — for a child with special needs. “It’s inhumane and humiliating" The new USA !! pages.devex.com/index.php/em...

Motion for Civil Contempt Filed in Foreign Aid Freeze Lawsuit www.citizen.org/news/motion-... God bless @publiccitizen.bsky.social

I didn’t get the MMR when I was a baby and I got measles induced encephalitis. I was hospitalised for months, not able to talk or walk. I didn’t recognise any of my family. It’s a miracle I recovered. America, we know you love guns, but please do not play Russian Roulette on your kids health!

Stopping USAID funding meant stopping clinical trial for a potential HIV vaccine!! The US lost its mind! www.science.org/content/arti...

My 37 year old daughter died from colon cancer last week after 14 months of chemo. It was not even discovered until she was already Stage 4. Cancer research is an IMPERATIVE, not something to "pause" or "rethink" while you plot tax cuts for the rich. 😡😡

Well done. Let's hope for a permenant win

US cuts of aid has bad impact on millions especially in Africa www.scidev.net/global/news/...

Senate Democrats went for the kill here, damn.

"I was racist before it was cool" "I would not mind if Gaza and Israel were wiped off the face of the Earth" “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity" “Normalize Indian hate" -- Top Musk/DOGE aide; posts discovered by WSJ's @klong.bsky.social Gift link www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

A must read: Abolishing USAID Is Both Unconstitutional and Disastrous foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/04/u... @MMKavanagh @abinader

Does the waiver on freezing US aid include financing food, water and shelter for Gaza? Or US president want to transfer 2 million people to any country as if they were chairs not humans!

VI appoints Nicaise Ndembi as Deputy Director General of its Africa Regional Office www.ivi.int/ivi-appoints...

Siteki's Hospital (Eswatini) is hardly a "Good Shepherd" if it is detaining a 15 year old mother because she can't pay her hospital bill www.times.co.sz/news/148801-...

Iran's publicly-financed PHC-led UHC reforms are also performing well and could be a model for other developing nations www.tehrantimes.com/news/508235/...

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.