This is bright news in dark times… the #vaccine alliance @gavi.org continues to reach children & save lives, securing funding despite cuts. Success in #Sudan, #Mali, #Haiti, roll out of wider #HPV coverage & readiness for roll out of new #malaria vaccine. 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 #PublicHealth #MedSky #VaccinesWork 🧪💉

For all who love #vaccines, the quest to eliminate #hepatitis viruses (A-E), #publichealth, #science, #research and #EvidenceBasedMedicine, please watch this to lighten the load and cheer yourself up 🤣🧪 #MedSky #HepSky

Great to hear Prof Edith Heard on women's health, bench-to-bedside discovery, sex chromosome biology, migrancy, science democratisation, threats to the global scientific ecosystem, female leadership. Plenty to be getting on with... welcome to the Crick! @crick.ac.uk 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#PEPFAR has been brutally uprooted and #USAID doesn’t really exist any more. Are there green shoots anywhere in this catastrophe? 🌱 It feels hard to find them, but clinging onto hope that our amazing leaders & community can navigate the storm. 🧪🩺💊🌍 #HIV #globalhealth www.thebody.com/hiv/pepfar-f...

Scientific, public health & lived experience rationale for expanding #hepatitis B treatment. Webinar hosted by @ice-hbv.bsky.social & #HepatitisBFoundation. Details in flyer 👇 #HBV #HepSky #LiverSky #MedSky 🧪💊🌍 @suwang88.bsky.social @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social www.hepb.org

Work presented at the international #HBV meeting & #COLDA highlights high level impact & profound concern around loss of funding for #hepatitis clinical care, public health programmes & research. 🧪 @crick.ac.uk @mariondelphin.bsky.social @worldhepalliance.bsky.social doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

We are on the brink of a game changer for #HIV… long acting agents which protect against infection… akin to a #vaccine (with repeated dosing). And we know that #vaccineswork. In the meantime, the ecosystem collapses & funding is slashed right where we need it the most #CDC #PEPFAR #USAID 🧪 @who.int

Shout out to @lou-downs.bsky.social & Dorcas Okanda for a prize at #COLDA. Their #HBV work in #Kenya expands insights in a neglected space, using #virus #genomics to influence healthcare. #MedSky #NoHep @crick.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social @kemriwellcome.bsky.social 🧪🇰🇪🌍

#Obama says linking #paracetamol to #autism is ‘violence against the truth’. Lies beget lies. This one leads to individual harm, but also - dangerously - to the ongoing erosion of trust in #medicine, #health & #science. Thank you @barackobamaauto.bsky.social for speaking out… & welcome to #London. 🧪

Tackling liver #cancer ↔️ tackling viral #hepatitis. #vaccineswork not only to prevent infection but to prevent cancer. #HBV vaccine is safe, effective and cheap. A dose at birth, and 3 doses in infancy (together with other vaccines) can prevent lifelong infection & disease. 🧪 #NoHep #vaccination

NHS guidelines stand In the UK, paracetamol (acetaminophen in USA) is the first choice of painkiller if you're pregnant. It's commonly taken during pregnancy and does not harm your baby www.nhs.uk/medicines/pa...

Session led by @worldhepalliance.bsky.social #COLDA2025 representing lived experience including #stigma and #discrimination for people living with #HBV. A threat to wellbeing and a roadblock on progress to #elimination. #NoHep #MedSky 🧪

Funding crisis for #HBV in #WHO #Africa region… A survey shows ⚠️0%⚠️ have sufficient funding to enact priority interventions for agreed international targets for #elimination. Presented by Dr Akudo Ikpeazu #COLDA2025 #SOLDA #NoHep #PublicHealth #hepatitis @who.int 🧪

"If you think research is expensive, try disease!" 🧪 #NIH #CDC #PEPFAR #NIHR @who.int

Resharing our questionnaire on #funding cuts to coincide with #COLDA2025 #liver meeting in #Ghana for anyone working in the field of viral #hepatitis, or with lived experience... wherever you are in the world. Please share! #SOLDA #PublicHealth #MedSky #LiverSky #HepB #NoHep 🧪

Shout out for #COLDA meeting launching in #Ghana. Starting with discussions on #hepatitis #HBV guidelines & implementation for #Africa Anyone else here on @bsky.app? Hosted by #SOLDA Society on Liver Disease in Africa www.solda-society.org #NoHep #CDCAfrica #LiverSky #MedSky #HepSky @who.int 🧪

‘Biotech winter’… this could be a long cold spell for UK and USA. Another way of thinking about ‘climate change’ for the scientific ecosystem. 🧪 Where is biotech spring blooming?🌸 How can we tackle the big freeze?🥶

Proud of Wales for this super response to the appearance of St George flags everywhere. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Work by @mariondelphin.bsky.social & @tongaimaponga.bsky.social to describe #immune signatures associated with diverse treatment outcomes in #HBV infection. #hepatitis #immunology #LiverSky #MedSky 🧪 @crick.ac.uk @suhealthsci.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

📢 Call to anyone working in - or affected by - #HIV #HBV #hepatitis, as we gather data about impact of #funding cuts. Can you help with a short questionnaire? link here ⬇️ forms.gle/nUJZFpMTdiwB... Can be anonymous. Preliminary results in this thread. #PEPFAR #CDC #NIH #MedSky #LiverSky #NoHep 🧪

Impact of international #funding cuts on #HBV. Results of a questionnaire to clinical, research & civil society reflect high impact, presented at HBV meeting in #Berlin. 🧪 #PEPFAR #USAID #CDC #NIH #MedSky #LiverSky @ice-hbv.bsky.social @who.int @worldhepalliance.bsky.social doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

International #HBV meeting this morning in #Berlin hosted by @ice-hbv.bsky.social ...targeting the #liver reservoir by gene editing, technologies working for #DNA & #RNA. Great to see investment in new antiviral therapeutics emerging, aiming for #hepatitis B #cure. #NoHep #LiverSky #HepSky #MedSky 🧪

'Aid cuts are hampering UK #science, Crick researcher says...' reducing overseas development aid is a disaster... for ethics, environment, ecosystem, education, excellence & economy @crick.ac.uk @uclnews.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social 🧪 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Trump’s aid cuts in east Africa led to unwanted abortion and babies being born with HIV – report Doctors, nurses, patients & other experts describe the loss of decades of progress in beating the virus in 100 days after Pepfar was disrupted @katlay.bsky.social ✍️ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Imagine if RFK and co destroy childhood vaccination in the US? A 50% decline in childhood vaccination could result in 51.2 million measles cases over a 25-y period, 9.9 million rubella cases, 4.3 million polio cases, 10.3 million hospitalizations, and 159 200 deaths jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"Biomedical research is not a luxury. It is a public good that enables emergency preparedness, equitable care, and medical progress...we cannot afford silence." @davidzd.bsky.social puts this so clearly. doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... 🧪 #MedSky #IDSky #PublicHealth #VaccinesWork #SciSky

Real world effects of funding cuts. #TB #HIV #hepatitis #vaccines all being hit. #GlobalHealth will slide backwards… and it will happen quickly. @who.int @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social #PEPFAR #CDC #USAID 🧪

#Hepatitis D recognised as a #carcinogen. Too long neglected... but with better monitoring & treatment becoming available we need to raise awareness & commit resources. We can also act by preventing #HBV because #vaccineswork. www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016... @who.int #NoHep #MedSky 🧪

People everywhere must have access to health services, supplies and humanitarian aid. #HealthForAll

End of #summer sun in #Oxford, soaking it up (while grateful for rain too!) 🌱🌤️

We all need to wake up… #CDC resignations #measles surge #data blackouts #EDI takedown #PublicHealth dismantling #funding cuts The cost is our lives and our civilisations 🧪💔 open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

‘Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to BlueSky’ #MedSky #HepSky #LiverSky #SciSky #PublicHealth let’s try to rebuild (and keep improving) 🧪 🦋💪 arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Tools for #elimination of #HBV include a safe, cheap & effective #vaccine. Not only does this prevent #INFECTION it also prevents #CANCER. Let's improve pathways to access. #vaccineswork @crick.ac.uk @ukhsa.bsky.social @england.nhs.uk @uclnews.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1lg5r,60n7... 🧪💉

Research, clinical care and public health interventions for #HBV have always lagged behind #HIV. We wrote this article recognising there may be overlooked consequences for babies and children exposed to #hepatitis B, even if they don’t develop chronic #infection. #LiverSky #HepSky #MedSky #NoHep 🧪

💬 Viewpoint: Terminating grants related to #HIV prevention jeopardizes decades of progress and risks increased morbidity and mortality from preventable new HIV infections. ja.ma/3VdSa7O

#r4today Irresponsible, racist, one dimensional journalism by the #BBC #Today programme. Celebratory Tory rhetoric about closure of a hotel housing asylum seekers - no mention of national strategy needed to tackle a crisis for society’s most vulnerable (many created by our own nation’s actions).

Learn about #hepatitis #HBV for #WorldHepatitisDay - a quick tour of history, biology, medicine, interventions and research… and voices of people with lived experience. #LiverSky #HepSky #MedSky #PublicHealth #EpiSky #NoHep @crick.ac.uk

Raising awareness for #WorldHepatitisDay - a neglected public health crisis. We have the tools to make real progress. Let’s reach everyone who needs information & access to services. #NoHep #LiverSky #HepSky #MedSky #EpiSky @crick.ac.uk @ahri-news.bsky.social @cnwl.nhs.uk @uclnews.bsky.social 🧪

Research is crucial to inform better interventions for #diagnosis, #prevention & #treatment of viral #hepatitis for different people in different settings. Global collaboration essential! #WorldHepatitisDay #NoHep #HBV @crick.ac.uk @ahri-news.bsky.social @cnwl.nhs.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social 🧪

It’s #WorldHepatitisDay! We work all through the year with amazing international and interdisciplinary partners to improve awareness, advocacy, training and access to interventions. Thanks to an amazing team! @crick.ac.uk @ahri-news.bsky.social @cnwl.nhs.uk #KWTRP #UVRI #NoHep #HBV 🧪🌍🦠💉🏥

Today is World #Hepatitis Day. Did you know❓ Hepatitis is the second leading infectious cause of death globally, with hepatitis B and C claiming 3 500 lives every day. Learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones 👉 bit.ly/hepatitis2025

For #WorldHepatitisDay, twin papers explore perspectives on #HBV #treatment expansion: 🦠 Scientific & medical: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 👨‍👨‍👦 Patient & public health: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ice-hbv.bsky.social @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social #HepSky #MedSky #LiverSky 🧪

Love this by Jennae Cecelia. #vaccineswork #MedSky 🧪

Total global spending on health projects will fall from £974 million to £527 million. www.thetimes.com/article/c226...

Happy Friday from #Oxford

Screening event to promote #liver health awareness & offer screening at the #Naadam #Mongolia community event in #London this weekend. Food, families, music, dancing, wrestling… & know your #hepatitis status. @crick.ac.uk @uclnews.bsky.social #MedSky #LiverSky #HepSky #NoHep #InclusionHealth #HBV 🧪

We're launching the new Global AIDS Update "AIDS, Crisis and the Power to Transform" this Thursday, 10 July at 11:30 CAT, in South Africa, in partnership with SANAC. Watch live on YouTube for the latest data, insights, and key findings. Stay tuned! youtube.com/live/jA3FScr...