Fatima Hassan
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Gilead's greed knows no limits. For all the hype, here we go: About 37k doses arrived in SA in APRIL 2026 via GFATM and Gilead. YOU READ THAT RIGHT. 37k! Are we supposed to celebrate this shocking drip feed and rationing, at the epicenter...?! Outrageous. Watch this space...
#lenacapavir
about 2 months ago
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Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting
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EXCLUSIVE: World Health Assembly Votes To Suspend USA's Voting Rights, Restore Iran's - Health Policy Watch
GENEVA – The World Health Assembly Committee B resolved to penalise the United States for outstanding dues, while restoring Iranian voting rights on Thursday. Officials announced the sudden payment of Tehran's outstanding debts just as the summit commenced, averting an immediate penalty.
https://healthpolicy-watch.news/who-iran-voting-rights-us-faces-suspension/
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TAGHIVscience
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Under-5 mortality of infectious diseases in 204 countries between 1990 and 2021
tp.amegroups.org/article/view...
(open access)
#HIV
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Under-5 mortality of infectious diseases in 204 countries between 1990 and 2021
Under-5 mortality of infectious diseases in 204 countries between 1990 and 2021
https://tp.amegroups.org/article/view/151541/html
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The Overseer Class is available everywhere books are sold
4 days ago
The Overseer Class is now available wherever books are sold. To every soul who helped me write it, to every soul who pre-ordered, to every soul who *will* read and share it, to every soul who stands together in solidarity in these times, “all of us, hand in hand,” THANK YOU 🙏🏾❤️
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Wait - so doctors now have a right to practise anywhere etc. but as patient I must got to a ''designated hospital'', ''designated network of doctors'', ''designated chemist'' - all decided by administrators of a medical scheme...? Make it make sense.
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The LEN-LA roll out in SA for all its significance and uncritical media 'celebration' is an embarrassment - Gilead (and USG) has royally messed with South Africa. The NDoH, GFATM do not come off too great either. A trickle dose start date now only of June 2026, yes...June 2026.
#lenacapavir
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Gregg Gonsalves
10 days ago
The destruction of US pandemic preparedness, infectious disease research, our withdrawal from WHO, is a five-alarm fire. Want something to be worried about? Should we be faced with another pandemic, we are now more vulnerable than ever.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Hantavirus Isn’t the Biggest Threat We’re Facing
The government’s destruction of our pandemic preparedness is.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/hantavirus-pandemic-preparedness/
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Look...the NHI ACT STILL ALLOWS Medical Schemes to operate, in parallel. So 'NHI gevaar' is misplaced - BUT there are *other* more critical equity focused issues lacking in the Act... but big business won't talk about that.
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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle)
28 days ago
worth reupping also that just a few weeks ago,
@mattherder.bsky.social
,
@fatimahassan.bsky.social
, Andy Hill and I argued about US driving a public health emergency of international concern in
@bmj.com
:
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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Part 2: "Who controls South Africa’s lenacapavir rollout? Not South Africa" With African Alliance
@hji-sa.bsky.social
health-e.org.za/2026/04/21/w...
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Part 2: "Who controls South Africa’s lenacapavir rollout? Not South Africa" With African Alliance
@hji-sa.bsky.social
health-e.org.za/2026/04/21/w...
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'We are managing HIV with a selective lenacapavir roll-out, not ending it...' Our latest in health-e on SA's drip feed LEN-LA roll out - with
@africanalliance.bsky.social
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@hji-sa.bsky.social
LINK: 📲
health-e.org.za/2026/04/20/m...
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We Are Managing HIV With Selective Lenacapavir Roll-out, Not Ending It
Lenacapavir promised to change the course of the epidemic, but a limited, geographically selective rollout exposes a harder reality: who gets protected, who is left behind, and whether this is progres...
https://health-e.org.za/2026/04/20/managing-hiv-selective-lenacapavir-rollout/
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'We are managing HIV with a selective lenacapavir roll-out, not ending it...' Our latest in health-e on SA's drip feed LEN-LA roll out - with
@africanalliance.bsky.social
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@hji-sa.bsky.social
LINK: 📲
health-e.org.za/2026/04/20/m...
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We Are Managing HIV With Selective Lenacapavir Roll-out, Not Ending It
Lenacapavir promised to change the course of the epidemic, but a limited, geographically selective rollout exposes a harder reality: who gets protected, who is left behind, and whether this is progres...
https://health-e.org.za/2026/04/20/managing-hiv-selective-lenacapavir-rollout/
about 1 month ago
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In latest Medicine & Science
@bmj.com
Podcast-I join my co-author
@mattherder.bsky.social
&
@kamranabbasi.bsky.social
to discuss our recent Analysis (w. Andy Hill &
@roojinhabibi.org
) calling for WHO to declare USG a PHEIC also due to its 'unhinged nationalism'. 📲
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
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The Trump administration is an international health emergency
Podcast Episode · Medicine and Science from The BMJ · April 17 · 51m
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-trump-administration-is-an-international/id283916558?i=1000762030549
about 1 month ago
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In latest Medicine & Science
@bmj.com
Podcast-I join my co-author
@mattherder.bsky.social
&
@kamranabbasi.bsky.social
to discuss our recent Analysis (w. Andy Hill &
@roojinhabibi.org
) calling for WHO to declare USG a PHEIC also due to its 'unhinged nationalism'. 📲
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
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The Trump administration is an international health emergency
Podcast Episode · Medicine and Science from The BMJ · April 17 · 51m
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-trump-administration-is-an-international/id283916558?i=1000762030549
about 1 month ago
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3 mill for the world. You read that right. April 2026! Scandalous greed and artificial scarcity ala Gilead. 👇🏿🚨
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about 1 month ago
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Well this happened- just so humbled to be alongside some of these great voices for health equity and justice in Africa. 🤲🏾✊🏾
meridianletters.com/africa-healt...
#Africahealth20
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Africa Health 20
Africa Health 20 is an annual editorial project highlighting 20 leaders shaping health across Africa.
https://meridianletters.com/africa-health-20/
about 1 month ago
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Fatima Hassan
about 2 months ago
ICYMI - Our analysis published in
@bmj.com
makes the case for
@who.int
to declare that the actions of the US under President Trump amount to a 'PHEIC' under the International Health Regulations. CC
@roojinhabibi.org
@fatimahassan.bsky.social
@gavinyamey.bsky.social
@jocalynclark.bsky.social
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Well this happened- just so humbled to be alongside some of these great voices for health equity and justice in Africa. 🤲🏾✊🏾
meridianletters.com/africa-healt...
#Africahealth20
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Africa Health 20
Africa Health 20 is an annual editorial project highlighting 20 leaders shaping health across Africa.
https://meridianletters.com/africa-health-20/
about 1 month ago
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Fatima Hassan
Gilead's greed knows no limits. For all the hype, here we go: About 37k doses arrived in SA in APRIL 2026 via GFATM and Gilead. YOU READ THAT RIGHT. 37k! Are we supposed to celebrate this shocking drip feed and rationing, at the epicenter...?! Outrageous. Watch this space...
#lenacapavir
about 2 months ago
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Gilead's greed knows no limits. For all the hype, here we go: About 37k doses arrived in SA in APRIL 2026 via GFATM and Gilead. YOU READ THAT RIGHT. 37k! Are we supposed to celebrate this shocking drip feed and rationing, at the epicenter...?! Outrageous. Watch this space...
#lenacapavir
about 2 months ago
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Condolences. Huge huge loss for our movement... Stephen Lewis called out Manto and Mbeki's AIDS denialism when most world leaders were scared to! Fearless. Never forget! Hamba Kahle Comrade. Rest in Power. ✊🏾💙⏳️
#StephenLewis
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about 2 months ago
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When Gilead plays god, after extracting global south participation... Worse, Gilead cannot meet global demand. That much is clear. 👇🏿
#lenacapavir
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about 2 months ago
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Health Justice Initiative
about 2 months ago
📢JUST IN📢 This HUMAN RIGHTS month, we are excited to share Health Justice Initiative's (HJI) Turning 5 Report. Link:
healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2026/03/25/h...
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about 2 months ago
New analysis published in
@bmj.com
where
@roojinhabibi.org
Fatima Hassan, Andy Hill & I argue the US -- through its actions -- creating a 'public health emergency of international concern'. Multiple epidemics are expected, so we call upon
@who.int
to act decisively.
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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Prof Gavin Yamey
about 2 months ago
🚨 This analysis piece in
@bmj.com
is absolutely 🔥 (disclosure: I was a peer reviewer) The authors argue that US actions to dismantle public health at home & abroad “constitute a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) under international law” 1/2
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern
Matthew Herder and colleagues call for broader mobilisation to avoid the deaths and morbidity in low and middle income countries likely to result from recent US policy changes Announcing the United ...
https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj-2026-089474
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Jocalyn Clark
about 2 months ago
Savage. The White House has responded to the paper we published last night in
@bmj.com
, which calls the US administration a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Read & weep:
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Trump administration is world’s "worst public health emergency" say experts
The researchers argue that U.S. policy shifts are fuelling disease spread and rising deaths—in some countries more than others.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-trump-administration-public-health-emergency-international-concern-warn-researchers-11734250
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Eric Topol
about 2 months ago
Title: "The United States is Driving a Public Heath Emergency of International Concern"
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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Read our new piece on the pernicious role of the USG in global health, in the BMJ, today. *The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern* With:
@mattherder.bsky.social
@roojinhabibi.org
and Andy Hill.
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about 2 months ago
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Health Justice Initiative
about 2 months ago
MUST READ: 'The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern'
@mattherder.bsky.social
@fatimahassan.bsky.social
A Hill and
@roojinhabibi.org
Via
@bmjmedicine.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern
Matthew Herder and colleagues call for broader mobilisation to avoid the deaths and morbidity in low and middle income countries likely to result from recent US policy changes Announcing the United ...
https://share.google/K5pkVXymrbeX91z66
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Health Justice Initiative
over 1 year ago
📢Just in📢 Interpreting USG Order, Waiver & Cases:PEPFAR+ Available via Community Coalition-CHANGE:
healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2025/02/05/p...
With: @HealthGAP @ITPCglobal @SECTION27news @_ARASAcomms @ABIAIDS @TAGTeam_Tweets @HIVpxresearch @TAC @SweatTweets @actupny @iasociety @amfAR
#pepfar
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Health Justice Initiative
over 1 year ago
📢PEPFAR FREEZE-WAIVER📢 JUST IN: SA health groups have written to Health, Treasury, DIRCO & SA Presidency about need for urgent, reasonable PLAN, to address dire consequences of USG Executive Orders, Waiver, Bans & US Court Rulings, for SA. More here:
healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2025/02/05/p...
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PEPFAR FREEZE - Health Justice Initiative (HJI)
A group of civil society organisations has written the following joint letter calling for the South African government to provide a coordinated emergency response to address the healthcare emergency c...
https://healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2025/02/05/pepfar-freeze/
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John Green
over 1 year ago
We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
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Trump's authoritarian orders has just risked global defaulting in/of key treatment programmes. A global health nightmare of epic proportions unfolding- for 'revenge', ideology and of course...$. Blood. On. His. Hands.
#PEPFAR
over 1 year ago
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Asia Russell
over 1 year ago
tl;dr: PEPFAR must get back to work, firing on all cylinders; but this waiver guidance appears needlessly limited whereas Sec Rubio's waiver announcement was broad
www.state.gov/emergency-hu...
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Emergency Humanitarian Waiver to Foreign Assistance Pause - United States Department of State
To carry out President Trump’s Executive Order on Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid, yesterday I approved an additional waiver of the pause for life-saving humanitarian assistance ...
https://www.state.gov/emergency-humanitarian-waiver-to-foreign-assistance-pause-2/
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Asia Russell
over 1 year ago
there will be (more) chaos and confusion over waiver implementation, which further undermines the
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infections each second, and a
#AIDS
death every minute, there is no time for more waste & harm >>
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
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Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/health/trump-aid-malaria-tuberculosis-hiv.html?searchResultPosition=1
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Fatima Hassan
Asia Russell
over 1 year ago
We published the leaked guidance for @PEPFAR on the waiver to the funding freeze for "life-saving humanitarian assistance programs" here:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
>> a thread 🧵:
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2025_02_01 Waiver Notice to DPs and PCOs FOR DISTRIBUTION.pdf.pdf
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQgNTpC6F5oaOnkebQokJ_2eYgM_IcQNT7alIL6R3P16Ef4Z0pmQby3Y1eHbJcTxK_yJ8EPVNiibxON/pub
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Health Justice Initiative
over 1 year ago
We are now on bsky📲 Our latest news: Coalition Demands Accelerated Access to Revolutionary HIV Prevention, Calls on Governments in Global South to Break Trade & IP Barriers & Take on Gilead’s Power. Press Statement:
healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2024/12/02/a...
Health GAP Just Tx ABIA - GTPI
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Activist Coalition Demands Accelerated Access to Revolutionary HIV Prevention - Health Justice Initiative (HJI)
Calls on Governments in the Global South to Break Trade and Intellectual Property Barriers and Take on Gilead’s Power Countdown to access campaign launched on World AIDS Day Johannesburg, South Afri...
https://healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2024/12/02/activist-coalition-demands-accelerated-access-hiv-prevention/
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Al Jazeera English
over 1 year ago
"Starvation is destroying our bodies and our minds, incapacitating us. And this is the goal... and while Israel may hope that we starve in silence, we will not. The world can and must stop the starvation of Gaza." —
#AJOpinion
by Nour Elassy ⤵️
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I am starving in Gaza and I don’t believe the world can’t do anything
Israel tried to starve Gaza before and the international community reacted. Why isn’t it doing anything now?
https://aje.io/3twa2k
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💥 Just in 💥 Coalition Demands Accelerated Access to Revolutionary HIV Prevention, Calls on Governments in Global South to Break Trade & IP Barriers & Take on Gilead’s Power: WITH: HEALTH JUSTICE INITIATIVE - HJI GTPI - ABIA 3rdworldnetwork - TWN Health GAP Just Treatment TAC
#GileadGreed
over 1 year ago
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Ellen 't Hoen
over 1 year ago
McKinsey nears $600mn settlement with US over opioid claims
on.ft.com/3V5VmCZ
Let’s agree to keep them away from global health from now on.
@who.int
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McKinsey nears $600mn settlement with US over opioid claims
Payment would significantly raise cost to firm of its past work for opioid makers
https://on.ft.com/3V5VmCZ
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The Guardian
over 1 year ago
‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuels
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‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuels
Interviews and analysis of court documents show how the world’s most prestigious consulting firm quietly helps fuel the climate crisis Two giant, mirrored walls are set to rise out of the sands of the Arabian desert. They will run parallel for more than…
http://dlvr.it/TGHPtq
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SA's Discovery Health (large private health scheme provider) co-hosts a "future health summit" in SA (!) with genocide defenders, Israeli Health Ministry (!) +other apartheid apologists but can't seem to say the words medical apartheid, Gaza or genocide. Current/future health in Gaza: OBLITERATED!
over 1 year ago
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SA's Discovery Health (large private health scheme provider) co-hosts a "future health summit" in SA (!) with genocide defenders, Israeli Health Ministry (!) +other apartheid apologists but can't seem to say the words medical apartheid, Gaza or genocide. Current/future health in Gaza: OBLITERATED!
over 1 year ago
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My first post here: Free Palestine 🍉🤲🏾✊🏾 And stop arming and supporting a genocide.
over 1 year ago
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