During 2023 Marburg outbreak in Tanzania, a community health worker.. received a local alert about unexplained deaths. Her rapid reporting through established community health channels triggered a coordinated response that helped contain the outbreak within 78 days. www.scidev.net/global/opini...

Why don’t apply their brain a bit while using AI? Like a teenie tiny bit of common sense would have helped 🤣

Number of suspected Ebola cases in DR Congo passes 900 as health workers face attacks and shortages

We are retrograding big time in context of believing in science that has saved lives for decades. Just insane.

Cuts to foreign aid budgets by the UK, France and Germany could contribute to more than 11.5 million preventable deaths by the end of the decade... www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Africa CDC chief says he's in 'panic mode' after Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda and calls for manufacturing vaccines and treatments in Africa. youtu.be/-j-HhytGDfA?...

a Lancet Commission on activism and health! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#Ebola An article worth reading to know challenges being faced on the ground during the most recent outbreaks - from testing hiccups to lack of vaccines and treatment and above all the political turmoil in DRC that already obstructs access to health services! www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/2... #IDSky

UK Civil society fighting back against controversial drug pricing deal with the US pushing for measures that can curb NHS's ability to decide and pay for medicines www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

A step in the right direction to ensure transparency even though forced by courts in Switzerland. Crazy prices charged by pharmaceutical companies for COVID vaccines. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/drug-pri...

Finally some good news .....

List prices range from about $80,000 for a year’s treatment in Germany to $208,000 in the U.S., $93,000 in Lebanon to about $130,000 in Colombia, $65,000 in South Africa to $116,000 in Croatia. www.icij.org/investigatio...

If you’re looking for an NGO to support through your charitable contributions this year, I strongly recommend them. Been following their work for years. Believe me, every penny contributed by you will be put to good use, supporting and covering health needs of women in India.

Spring is here

Amid crazy conflict setting, it's always the women and girls who get the worst of it. Kudos to all those woman who courageously stepped up to share their stories for this heartbreaking yet much needed report by MSF. #SexualViolence in Darfur, Sudan.

NEW: US pharmaceutical corporation Gilead Sciences is refusing to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF.

AMR is everywhere. But situation is much much worse in crisis and conflict-affected settings. Read this report of ours that reveals our experience of witnessing AMR and struggling to deal with it in South Sudan, Ethiopia, Nigeria and now Gaza.

Perils of AI: When I asked about the best hot-dog-eating tech journalists, Google parroted the gibberish from my website, both in the Gemini app and AI Overviews..ChatGPT did the same thing, though Claude, a chatbot made by the company Anthropic, wasn't fooled. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Lancet: "From next month, patents for semaglutide will expire in several countries, including in Brazil, Canada, China, India, and Türkyie—amounting to about 40% of the world's population. Manufacturers in China and India stand poised to launch a raft of biosimilars."

More on WHO DG elections www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A great tool to be used in remote settings for countries having limited resources. Hoping for a quicker roll out now. #TBSky

Tuberculosis funding cuts could cost households up to $80 billion www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis...

Read MSF's factsheet on emerging near point-of-care nucleic acid amplification tests (nPOC-NAATs) for TB. Watch out for more details on MiniDock Ultra (Pluslife), the first TB nPOC-NAAT test available for procurement through the Global Fund and the GDF. www.msf.org/report-near-...

Coming soon: Next round of WHO DG elections amid massive cuts and fund shortage: healthpolicy-watch.news/want-to-beco...

It’s spring already in a green house garden in Geneva

Worth noting for people following PABS discussions at Geneva level. There are attempts underway to roll back existing laws in Brazil that ensure broader post-trial access for clinical trial participants.

WHO recommended community-based, out-patient treatment for people with drug resistant TB in 2011. Yet, 15 years after this recommendation and 8 years after the introduction of all-oral regimen, many countries are still slow in adopting this guidance. Must read by @stephanienolen.bsky.social

The use of compulsory licenses by high-income countries to gain access to medicines increased considerably over a recent 10-year period, mostly for treatments of noncommunicable diseases such as cancer and cystic fibrosis, along with Covid-19, a new study found.

Modelling scientists at Wits University have calculated that if enough people — between 1-2 million per year — take LEN just once, new infections would decline fast enough so that South Africa can end #AIDS as a public health threat by 2043. #IDSky

One year later, MSF is witnessing the human cost of decisions that have upended aid programmes worldwide where #FundingCuts are restricting access to basic healthcare, vaccines, nutrition, epidemic control tools, and support for marginalised populations. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/how-u...

Why is #insulin, an essential and lifesaving medication that’s existed for over 100 years, still priced, patented, and distributed like a 💎luxury good💎? Listen as our advocacy advisor, Candice Sehoma, unpacks it on this #podcast episode: open.spotify.com/episode/6p39...

Few people have heard of Happi and Sabeti, yet they not only run a virus detection network to stop the next deadly pandemic but are also breaking down inequity between Africa and the global north by empowering African scientists to improve African lives. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

CSOs continue to call for equitable access at every platform possible.

Message was loud and clear: Don't forget kids affected with tuberculosis! Nearly half of all children with TB are not diagnosed, which means they miss out on access to the lifesaving treatment.

Wow very very innovative protest!

At a session on TB in children, Aman Shukla from YOUNITE Global said that statistics will not change much in future if the community engagement continue to reduce in absence of funding and support #TBSky

Some good examples of countries providing TB treatment and care to refugees and migrants

Very impressive work being done by IOM to support people with TB on the move

Joanna Ladomirska from MSF presenting on TB in migrants. MSF supporting TB treatment and care in Poland to refugees from Ukraine managed to establish linkages and care in countries where these people moved. See map behind her.

Migrants and refugees are more vulnerable to TB and face barriers in accessing TB care and services #TBSky

John Green talks about economic injustice when it comes to tuberculosis. Progress is made but it’s not reaching to the people who most need it. #UnionConf #TBSky

« I thought I was the next one to go down after my best friend died of TB. » said Henry, TB survivor from Sierra Leone and protagonist of John Green’s book ´Everything is TB’. He is at the TB Union Conference today at the plenary sharing his experience of undergoing TB treatment.

Beautiful takeaways on where panelists find hope: when one person with TB gets cured, community movement supporting people who need care, people speaking out about TB , every mother having info about TB, every child with TB getting diagnosed and treated, every person with TB treated as human being.

Happening Now!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBqQ...