So excited.... Join us next Thur at Book Lounge in Cape Town. 🎙

📣 Join us 📣 16 July 2026. Book Lounge, Cape Town. Featuring:🎙 @tahiramin.bsky.social from @imakglobal.bsky.social

Congratulations to Stephanie Nolen, former Globe and Mail reporter, and now New York Times reporter, who was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada for "exposing inequities in health, conflict and social justice...and groundbreaking HIV-AIDS coverage in Africa." www.gg.ca/en/appointme...

What is the Home Affairs Minister & President doing? For goodness sake they should be bringing an urgent interdict... not entertaining unauthorised deadlines, fear. Also, court order after court order AGAINST Home Affairs that is crap at doing its job - delays in processing are known for years!

A new low for the US Embassy in SA... #MOREFUNDINGCUTS

CONGRATULATIONS FATIMA ! 🎉🎉🎉 Fatima is reimagining access to life-saving medicine by challenging the systems that treat essential healthcare as a privilege rather than a human right. Read: www.ashoka.org/en-us/fellow... #AshokaFellow #EveryoneAChangemaker #HealthJustice #AshokaAfrica @ashoka.org

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Wow, just wow, entire *US* NGOs, and WHO and pharma funded groups praise singing today- ignoring local demands, needs, and context of self created scarcity by Gilead. To be an ally, then be an ally... (Also, we can be relieved to have a new prevention tool, but still be critical) #lenacapavir

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 4 June 2026, Thursday, SAST 11h00 __________________ Launch of Lenacapavir in South Africa for HIV prevention South Africa Helped Create Lenacapavir, Gilead Should Not Decide Who Gets It – SA Civil Society Groups

Shameful, sad time for all of us, in what should otherwise be a time of celebration. SA Govt. 'launches' a prog. of about 37000 doses lenacapavir tomorrow, BUT we need MILLIONS of doses. Scarcity & control is self-created. Will the President take on Gilead, the pharma co. flexing all of its power?

And why he is rationing and drip feeding the world...?

Under-5 mortality of infectious diseases in 204 countries between 1990 and 2021 tp.amegroups.org/article/view... (open access) #HIV

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 🙏🏾❤️

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.

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

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...

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.

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/...

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...

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...

'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 - @hji-sa.bsky.social LINK: 📲 health-e.org.za/2026/04/20/m...

'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 - @hji-sa.bsky.social LINK: 📲 health-e.org.za/2026/04/20/m...

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...

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...

3 mill for the world. You read that right. April 2026! Scandalous greed and artificial scarcity ala Gilead. 👇🏿🚨

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Gilead plays god, after extracting global south participation... Worse, Gilead cannot meet global demand. That much is clear. 👇🏿 #lenacapavir

📢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...

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/...

🚨 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/...

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:

Title: "The United States is Driving a Public Heath Emergency of International Concern" www.bmj.com/content/392/...

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.

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/...

📢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

📢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...

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.

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

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..., for example >>

there will be (more) chaos and confusion over waiver implementation, which further undermines the #HIV response. 25 #HIV infections each second, and a #AIDS death every minute, there is no time for more waste & harm >> www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

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 🧵:

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

"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 ⤵️

💥 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