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"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

CSOs have been key actors in Global Health Governance. Next week, together with @hji-sa.bsky.social and UNAL's Centro de Pensamiento Medicamentos Información y Poder, we'll cover three case studies of how CSOs have been working to expand transparency in the pharmaceutical sector. Come join us!!

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

26 Feb. 2025 Press Release: Civil society calls for end to double standard in diabetes care as SA’s Competition Commission launches critical investigation for insulin pens and more – v. Novo Nordisk and Sanofi-Aventis #TAC #MSF #HealthGAP @taghivscience.bsky.social

26 Feb. 2025 Press Release: Civil society calls for end to double standard in diabetes care as SA’s Competition Commission launches critical investigation for insulin pens and more – v. Novo Nordisk and Sanofi-Aventis #TAC #MSF #HealthGAP @taghivscience.bsky.social

Biopharma companies and CEOs are keeping their heads down at their own peril. They should speak up about what’s happening to the NIH and other science agencies before it’s too late. Silence gives consent. And no one should consent to this.

Just as we feared, @who.int has confirmed that the US CDC has stopped sharing influenza virus data even as H5N1 spreads in the country. CC @kkirkup.bsky.social www.who.int/multi-media/...

Listen:🎧 Last weeks Citizens Corner on @SAfmRadio re Trump USAID Orders/Rubio Waiver. With: @TAC @RHAPnews As waiver & court cases advance, please see updates here: healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2025/02/05/pep… LINK:🎧#CitizensCornerer: Public Health treatment Programmes omny.fm/shows/the-talk

Listen:🎧 Last weeks Citizens Corner on @SAfmRadio re Trump USAID Orders/Rubio Waiver. With: @TAC @RHAPnews As waiver & court cases advance, please see updates here: healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2025/02/05/pep… LINK:🎧#CitizensCornerer: Public Health treatment Programmes omny.fm/shows/the-talk

South African Civil Society Urges President Ramaphosa to ‘Step Up’ to Address HIV Funding Crisis Via: healthpolicy-watch.news/south-africa... #SWEAT #TAC

NEW: DOJ files a notice of correction indicating that (1) it underestimated the number of USAID employees placed on leave; and (2) misstated that only future contracts were being frozen, when existing contracts were frozen as well. I suspect the judge will not be happy. www.democracydocket.com

⏰ BREAKING ⏰ New lawsuit filed against illegal global HIV funding freeze: www.citizen.org/news/nonprof... It is hard to keep track; this one is important. Suing Trump over his illegal and deadly attack on global #HIV and health programs 👇👇 @hivpxresearch.bsky.social @publiccitizen.bsky.social

PRESS STATEMENT: 'South Africa’s HIV response in crisis as illegal US funding freeze pushes health system to the brink' Link: healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2025/02/10/sou… @Afri_Alliance @SweatTweets @ezintsha @PublicHealth @HealthGAP @TAC @SECTION27news @RHAPnews @OutrightIntl @TAGTeam_Tweets

We join @hji-sa.bsky.social in calling for the South African govt to provide a coordinated emergency response to address the healthcare crisis created by the US govt's actions on foreign aid. ✍️📩 Read the joint letter by civil society: healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2025/02/05/p... #PEPFARFreeze

Now in: CHANGE - GLOBAL COMMUNITY COALITION INFO SHEET 2: Explanation of US Temporary Restraining Orders (TROs) – Pepfar+ LINKS: healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2025/02/05/pep… healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/wp-content/upl��� (Via CHANGE) @HealthGAP

Mr President, South Africa You said we were beggers re. vaccine inequity (COVID) ✔️ You said SA will stand w. Palestine re. ICJ case ✔️ You said we will not be bullied by Trump administration re. USAID/PEPFAR cuts/threats ✔️ NOW IS THE TIME: -Amend SA Patent Laws -Take Compulsory Measures v Pharma

"It is difficult to know the total number of trials shut down, or how many people are affected, because the swift demolition of U.S.A.I.D. in recent days has erased the public record. In addition to the disabled website, the agency no longer has a communications department"

*breaking* we are blocking traffic, demanding an end to Rubio’s illegal stop-work order that is killing people with AIDS.

📢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

TODAY—activism doesn’t stop for rain—or a two hour school delay. Please join us in one hour! 👇👇

📢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...

THIS THURSDAY: Join TAG, Housing Works, Health GAP, ACT UP + allies to protest the new administration's grotesque attack on HIV communities. Thursday, Feb. 6 @ 11 a.m. at the U.S. State Department Buses available from NYC to DC: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... SEE YOU THERE💪✊🤝

📢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 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