After all the lobbying of industry and government to tackle the causes of obesity and promote solutions to it, are these jabs giving the Big Junk industry a massive free pass? What message is it sending to parents? #obesity #diabetes #publichealth #nutrition www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"If the US government persists down this current path...the world will inevitably witness a tragic increase in child deaths..." Sobering warning from @drsethberkley.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#IAS2025 first ever lenacapavir PrEP implementation study will be in Brazil! Will include a mobile PrEP unit in Sao Paolo to best reach communities who will benefit @iasociety.bsky.social

Holy cow, as an American, I wasn't aware of the Horizon IT scandal. ~1,000 postal workers were wrongfully prosecuted for theft and other crimes, imprisoned, and forced to repay tens of thousands of pounds. 13 of them committed suicide! But it was an IT error! AI will make this worse.

The attempted assassination of a Colombian presidential hopeful has reignited fears of a return to a bloody past when organized crime and rebel groups murdered candidates, journalists, judges with impunity. Latest for the @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Colombia’s female prison population has increased more than fivefold since 1991, largely driven by drug laws that disproportionately punish women. Now Colombia is attempting a new approach – pivoting from punishment to rehabilitation. www.theguardian.com/global-devel... @mickessler.bsky.social

Wow...such preparedness. I just can't handle all the winning. That's Ok, they'll say it was Biden's flu. Stand up for science. 🧪

Scientists must lean into uncomfortable roles, like political advocacy, to defend scientific independence. My thoughts from the 2025 Cambridge Disinformation Summit. youtu.be/UgA44T1lEPE?...

Everyone working in #globalhealth should read this. Chaos historically follows #pandemics & we are now in an information war which means we need to be much better with our #scientific and #health #communications. More than ever we need more activist scientists too. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Let’s not underestimate what a significant step forward around the Pandemic Agreement we saw early this morning. Multilateralism won out. There’s a way to go but gees given the global health turbulence and potential biomedical threats emerging this is an important win. We needed this.

Surely given Jay Bhattacharya's concern about censorship and academic freedom, he will step in and promptly reverse this decision.

Malcolm Turnbull wants Australia to face up to the realities of a new world of Trumpian disorder. Our governing class would prefer he kept quiet, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.

As the U.S. Government endeavors to make tuberculosis great again, please consider preordering a signed copy of my book about our deadliest infection, its long history, and why in the 75 years since TB became curable, we've allowed over 150,000,000 people to die of the disease. everythingistb.com

He also baselessly claimed that natural immunity from measles and other diseases could protect people from cancer and cardiac disease.

Posted by @ianbremmer.com on another platform: “Mexico president Sheinbaum with 85% approval, strongest leader of a major democracy. Hell of a turnout in Mexico City today.”

apnews.com/article/trum... Funding for new grants also slowed to a trickle after NIH halted grant application review meetings in January. At Duke, NIH grant and contract award notices plummeted, dropping from 166 in January and February of 2024 to 64 so far in 2025, according to the university.

Nearly half of women in Africa will be obese or overweight by 2030 – study

Today at the “Stand up for Science” demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial.

"Wired gained 62,500 new subscribers in the United States during the first two weeks of February alone"

For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

@caglauren.bsky.social Hello Cagla..am trying to reach you to discuss a media workshop we´d like invite you to. [email protected]

Katie Dain, CEO, NCD Alliance: “NCDs have already been under-prioritized. Anything on the bottom of the list is going to get even further de-prioritized.” www.devex.com/news/how-usa...

Prof Kenneth Ngure, President-elect of the @iasociety.bsky.social: “It’s like you’re having a car speeding on a highway. Then you apply emergency brakes. There are so many things that can go wrong.” #endAIDS #savinglives #prevention #sciencematters www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

What does the US foreign aid freeze mean on the ground? @kaamilahmed.bsky.social and I heard about people going without vital medicine, refugee camps facing the loss of services and more. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"PEPFAR provides HIV medication to more than 20 million people..stopping its funding essential stops their HIV treatment,” International AIDS Society President Beatriz Grinsztejn said.... “If that happens, people are going to die and HIV will resurge.” #hiv #sciencematters time.com/7210427/cdc-...

This man cannot be confirmed. This is pre-meditated murder of children. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Now that @pkrugman.bsky.social is free, his work is soaring. Some people (me too) do better when mama is not telling us what to do. www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

📣 The IAS warns that the reinstatement of the “global gag rule” will have dire consequences for the #HIV response, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Read the full IAS statement now and join our call for policies that heed science:

The anti-abortion Mexico City policy -- a.k.a. the "global gag rule" -- is on again. Trump reinstated it tonight. It bars tax dollars from going to any overseas organization that promotes or performs abortions -- whether or not they use US $$ to do it. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

"Institutions such as PEPFAR and the Global Fund to Fight #AIDS, #Tuberculosis and #Malaria have between them saved some 90 million lives. They are worth defending, not defunding." healthpolicy-watch.news/why-hiv-coul...

New case of mutant mpox strain detected in UK www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

US conservatives, uneasy with HIV being sexually transmitted, have an excuse to defund #PEPFAR, pushing for it to focus on #abstinence not #antiretrovirals, informed by ideology not science ⬇️ @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social #Trump2025 @iasociety.bsky.social healthpolicy-watch.news/ambivalent-a...

NEW: In 2021, as thousands of Americans were dying of Covid-19, RFK Jr. demanded that officials rescind authorization for the shots and refrain from approving any Covid vaccine in the future. My colleague @by-cjewett.bsky.social reports www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/h...

Timely. #publichealth #disinformation www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The peer-reviewed science shows that the primary factor behind the increase in wildfire extent in the western U.S. is increased aridity and fuel load due to human-caused warming. Via #AAAS #SciLine: www.sciline.org/climate/clim...

Brilliant but scary assessment of what 2025 holds for #globalhealth www.statnews.com/2024/12/26/g...

So, so hard to believe it's been 5 years.

Five years ago some infectious diseases experts were starting to grasp that the world was watching the emergence of a new pandemic. #Covid was a painful experience that should have taught us a lot about pandemic preparedness. But we seem to be unwilling to learn. www.statnews.com/2025/01/06/c...

The lack of severe infections among US #H5N1 #birdflu cases up till now may have created the notion among some people that the virus has become harmless. The death of a person in Louisiana is a reminder that that is not a safe bet. www.statnews.com/2025/01/06/b...

✨Hi Bluesky!✨ After 11 years connecting with thousands of people & organisations through Twitter, the time feels right to start connecting with a reenergised community migrating to brighter horizons. I look forward to fresh conversations & perspectives, & co-creating a space even better than before.

Exciting to have the next @iasociety.bsky.social conference in Rwanda, home to a heavily affected population. There have been a few in South Africa, but nowhere else on the continent, in my recollection.

What we learnt from the DRC’s malaria outbreak www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Yes, public health successes are still possible 🙏

Pakistan's transgender community have high rates of tuberculosis but struggle to access healthcare. New screening and outreach projects are trying to change things. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

What a cool study and a powerful demonstration that Tuberculosis is largely a disease of poverty. In Brazil a large scale intervention which provided cash monthly to families living in poverty led to profound reductions in TB cases. Up to 50% among the poorest groups. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One of Jimmy Carter's most consequential achievements is the near-total eradication of Guinea worm disease. The day after he learned he had brain cancer, he said, “I’d like for the last Guinea worm to die before I do.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/u...

NEW: The Biden administration is nearly doubling its investment to ward off a bird flu outbreak in humans. $306 million to be distributed in the next two weeks, before Trump takes office. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/u...