Must Read:📲 For the LEN-LA roll out in South Africa, what is at stake? This 2-part series by @fatimahassan.bsky.social & Tian Johnson unpacks key issues affecting timing, pace, price, delivery, licensing & control. Part 1: health-e.org.za/2026/04/20/m... Part 2: 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...

SCOOP: Trump is trying to disguise a sociopathic idea as a garden variety neo-con slogan ('trade over aid'). In fact they are proposing U.S. corporations exploit poor countries as a trough they can eat from, subsidized by public funds, while eliminating lifesaving aid. Gift link: wapo.st/4tg4zI4

thank you @altcdc.altgov.info Here is more about the protest: healthgap.org/press/aids-a...

📣📣📣 HJI DIRECTOR, FATIMA HASSAN - RECOGNISED AMONG 20 LEADERS SHAPING HEALTH ACROSS AFRICA: 📲 meridianletters.com/africa-healt... @fatimahassan.bsky.social

📣📣📣 HJI DIRECTOR, FATIMA HASSAN - RECOGNISED AMONG 20 LEADERS SHAPING HEALTH ACROSS AFRICA: 📲 meridianletters.com/africa-healt... @fatimahassan.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

HJI sends it condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Stephen Lewis. Today, the world lost a social justice warrior and HIV Tx champion. Rest in Power, Stephen. ✊🏾🤲🏾 @theslf.org

🌍 Worried about the impact US policy has had on global health? 📖 Read this timely analysis from GSL Global Health Law Director, @roojinhabibi.org and co-authors @mattherder.bsky.social, Fatima Hassan, and Andrew Hill.

ICYMI. THE US IS DRIVING A PHEIC.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

I've walked thru the economic logic here, but Gilead obviously does not say this out loud. They don't really have a good reason not to sell to MSF, which is why they landed on negotiating supply contracts is "a lot of work" (actual thing they said). 13/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/preve...

Doctors Without Borders calls Gilead ‘unconscionable’ for refusing to sell HIV prevention drug to organization.. statnews.com/pharmalot/20... #pharma #HIV #AIDS #pharma #Gilead

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

Cool new research digs into 💉 purchasing contracts that pharma negotiated with South Africa Here's what they found: @hji-sa.bsky.social‬ @abinader.bsky.social‬ @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social‬

"Imagine a new HIV prevention tool existed that could – if it reached the right people – flick the switch to prevent almost all new HIV cases across the world... Fatima Hassan, Leena Menghaney, and Bellinda Nkoana brilliant piece @hji-sa.bsky.social www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/09/09/a...

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/...

📢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...

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/...

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📢 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...

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:

We are 5!!!!! For more on our work, and to support the HJI please visit: www.healthjusticeinitiative.org.za healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/donate/

"We thought we had built the right networks for HIV and COVID—but with today’s political and aid instability, we need new forms of solidarity. "- Fatima Hassan, @hji-sa.bsky.social during the 3rd GH-Solidarity Webinar @wellcometrust.bsky.social #Health #solidarity #southafrica #GlobalHealth

🔔How can solidarity be used as a tool for justice during times of crisis? We're honoured to feature Fatima Hassan, a leading human rights lawyer and social justice activist, and founder of the @hji-sa.bsky.social in our upcoming GH- Solidarity Webinar. #globalhealth

Must Read: Law & Global Governance of Infectious Disease: Access to Medicines on COVID, AIDS, & Beyond Via: American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics Journal Cambridge Univ. Press @ASLMENews Matthew Kavanagh Luis G Abinader Fatima Hassan Eric Friedman Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Must Read: Law & Global Governance of Infectious Disease: Access to Medicines on COVID, AIDS, & Beyond Via: American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics Journal Cambridge Univ. Press @ASLMENews Matthew Kavanagh Luis G Abinader Fatima Hassan Eric Friedman Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Must Listen: Via @safm - this weeks Talking Point w. @CathyMohlahlana ''Health civil society organisations calling on government to make emergency funding available'' (PEPFAR/USAID cuts for health services & research) omny.fm/shows/the-talk… With @SECTION27news @SweatTweets

🚨Must Read🚨 "Inside SA government’s confused response to US funding crisis: The government could have used emergency allocations to finance defunded services but has failed to do so." groundup.org.za/article/inside… Via @GroundUp_News @TAC @PSAM_AFRICA @SECTION27news @Afri_Alliance

Brian Mast's claim about "extremely expensive #HIV medication" is false, first line regimens are typically less than $45 per year. Pete Marocco's claims about advocacy funding just as inaccurate. Politico could've fact-checked both, but didn't.

🚨Must Read🚨 HIV-AIDS OP-ED: *A lifeline in freefall: The loss of Pepfar in SA could cost a million lives over 10 years* Link: www.dailymaverick.co.za/home-summari... With: @TAC @Afri_Alliance @HealthJusticeIn

🚨Must Read🚨 HIV-AIDS OP-ED: *A lifeline in freefall: The loss of Pepfar in SA could cost a million lives over 10 years* Link: www.dailymaverick.co.za/home-summari... With: @TAC @Afri_Alliance @HealthJusticeIn

Letter to SA Government 📄 SA NGOs remain concerned that there is not enough transparency in SA government’s handling of consequences of USAID/ PEPFAR cuts. Link: healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2025/03/18/p... African Alliance TAC SECTION27news Sweat PSAM_AFRICA Cancer Alliance

“about a million additional people will die terrible deaths every single year for the foreseeable future if PEPFAR doesn’t get reversed” www.vox.com/future-perfe...

99% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action. www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...

Some photos from the Stand Up for Science protest in San Francisco. #standupforscience

Read: A long overdue investigation by the Competition Commission has commenced for insulin pens and more, in South Africa– against Novo Nordisk and Sanofi-Aventis. Link to our reaction: healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2025/02/26/c... #TAC #MSF

📢Just in 📢 Fact Sheet- The SA Competition Commission is investigating pharmaceutical corporations Novo Nordisk & Sanofi-Aventis SA for potential anti-competitive practices in the insulin pen market. Download the Fact Sheet here: (with TAC) t.co/Ixv5NNbatQ

NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

"Eliminating PEPFAR would lead to 601,000 HIV-related deaths and 565,000 new HIV infections in South Africa alone over 10 years. It would also increase population-level health care expenditure by $1.7 billion..." @linda-gailb.bsky.social writes in @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2025/03/01/p...

Watch: 'A disaster is looming...' 27 Feb. South Africa Groups and CHANGE Press Conference - on Trump Termination of Health Services in SA LINK:📲 healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2025/02/27/c... @hivpxresearch.bsky.social

📢Media Reports SA CHANGE PRESS Conference 27 Feb -re. USAID, PEPFAR+ funding termination: healthpolicy-watch.news/us-terminates-… independent.co.uk/news/world/ame… dw.com/en/south-afric����� businesslive.co.za/bd/natinational/he… theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f… wenewsenglish.pk/us-hiv-aid-fre…

Watch: 'A disaster is looming...' 27 Feb. South Africa Groups and CHANGE Press Conference - on Trump Termination of Health Services in SA LINK:📲 healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2025/02/27/c... @hivpxresearch.bsky.social

📢Media Reports SA CHANGE PRESS Conference 27 Feb -re. USAID, PEPFAR+ funding termination: healthpolicy-watch.news/us-terminates-… independent.co.uk/news/world/ame… dw.com/en/south-afric����� businesslive.co.za/bd/natinational/he… theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f… wenewsenglish.pk/us-hiv-aid-fre…

🚨📢🚨📢 'U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World. -Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails' Via NYT: @snolen 📲📰 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

Read: A long overdue investigation by the Competition Commission has commenced for insulin pens and more, in South Africa– against Novo Nordisk and Sanofi-Aventis. Link to our reaction: healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2025/02/26/c... #TAC #MSF