Diagnostics are critical to controlling #Ebola. But major challenges remain: • Unreliable electricity and power supply • Limited lab capacity and trained personnel • Insecurity making sample transport and access difficult Diagnostics require infrastructure, logistics, and sustained investment.

CORRECTION: The war is not costing the US tens of billions of dollars. That’s just the price tag of missiles fired & hardware smashed. The actual cost to the US is *hundreds* of billions, and very possibly *thousands* of billions. Justin Wolfers has crunched the numbers.

Maniacal, but sadly what we have come to with increasing anti-intellectualism.

What would we do without the @who.int? I hope American republicans and Argentinians who were supportive of their country’s exit reflect on what’s happening with Hantavirus and why WHO is so critical to keep all of us safe.

Reviewing a journal article by an extremely senior well-known global health person and the referencing is atrocious. Absolute garbage. The academic in me is screaming. Please do not use your stature to avoid using Zotero or Endnote properly.

As a Malaysian I am utterly embarrassed that given our GDP we are providing only a paltry amount to @who.int. Ensuring you have a seat at the table, can agenda-set, and can influence global decisions is not guaranteed merely by being a WHO member state. Money talks and translates into power.

Please, please give your newborn a Vitamin K shot.

Gentle reminder to my global health colleagues developing policy briefs: please date your documents. It is absolutely shocking how many policy briefs there are out there with no dates. It’s maddening.

HPV vaccination cuts cancer risk in men by about half, study suggests www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

I’ll say this again and again. Countries need to preemptively enact domestic ABS laws in case this initiative fails.

Great to hear Guillaume Long, senior diplomatic advisor to The Hague Group & former minister of culture /Ecuador, on how “fear has been the greatest obstacle” to The Hague Group work - especially by Member States who fear how engagement may impact their relationships with the United States. #webinar

And the so called civilised west turns a blind eye. Again

While it’s great that Laos has received money from the Pandemic Fund for pandemic preparedness, I do wish The World Bank would make it easier for us to understand who from Laos is involved in the project and who best to invite for meetings. www.thepandemicfund.org/projects/adv...

WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

This is a comprehensive investigation of patent abuse of a Keytruda & the best I've ever seen patent data visualisation of evergreening practices and the resulting thicket until 2046 - another extra twenty years of patent monopoly right h/t @clancyny.bsky.social

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What can stop Israel?

Who cares about brown Jews though, right? Infuriating.

Did not think that I would be worrying about an entire civilisation being wiped out. Agreeing with @drtedros.who.int today that peace is the best medicine. May we see sense - and may we work every day on the shifting of the world order towards one that still prioritises the rule of law.

There are a few things in life that I hate and the genocidal state of Israel is one of them. The second thing is probably people whatsapping to tell me they have emailed.

The theatre that is Arab leaders saying the Arab League is weak while in the same breath failing to acknowledge that it is Israel, not Iran, that is destabilising the region, is the core reason that the Arab League will continue to be weak. Continuing to fellate the U.S. will bring you nowhere safe.

The "Hybrid PABS System" proposal - Yesterday, word of a "compromise" solution made the rounds of #IGWG6 - I am not sure how much traction this received.

Absolutely disgusting and abhorrent.

If there’s anything Iran and Gaza have taught global south peoples is that Western morality is fragile and two-faced, and that building defence systems to mitigate for another catastrophic failure of western morality is necessary.

Everything is legal if the victims are brown.

Absolute insanity. The impact of problematic migration policies on health.

Why do I not know any of the little girl’s names from Minab? Why do I not know what poems those little girls studied, the names of their mums? The dreams they had. Somebody tell me so I can remember them for the rest of my life. 💔

“Made in USA” and Department of Defense codes: new photos of weapon debris allegedly recovered from Feb. 28 school strike in Minab show remnants consistent with a U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missile. w/ @malachy.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social t.co/q8zQ0peJpd

First lecture done as Visiting Academic at the University of Warwick, at the @warwickpais.bsky.social @wicidwarwick.bsky.social on Future Pandemic Governance, Democratic Legitimacy, and Efficiency. I spoke about how global north dominated governance reduced efficiency, racism & self tests, &more.

Good. But I hope this puts an end to non-white countries believing they have immunity from western imperialism.

What irks me the most about white feminism is that it wants to save Iranian women from compulsory hijab, while not acknowledging that its methods to do that involve killing 63 Iranian girls aged 7-12 and 20 women volleyball players. Who will never see the day where they will have free choice.

Espen Barth Eide has gotten conflicts consistently right. Much better statement than most other western leaders - who have urged Iran to deescalate. They didn’t start this.

Middle East Eye: " #BREAKING: At least 24 girls have been killed in an air strike on an elementary school in southern Iran, local authorities said, as the United States and Israel ramps up attacks on the country.

@fifarahman.bsky.social will next week be delivering the @wicidwarwick.bsky.social guest lecture "Future Pandemic Governance: Imperatives for Democratic Legitimacy and Efficiency". 📆 3rd March 2026 ⏰ 12:00-13:45 📍 E2.02 (Social Sciences Building) 🔗 Register: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais...

🌍 Global Health at a Crossroads — Part I New AJIL Unbound symposium on global health law, equity & pandemic governance. 👉 Check it out now:https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/ajil-unbound-by-symposium/global-health-at-a-crossroads-part-i

Illegal migrant in small boat stopped from entering sovereign territory without a permit.

At the opening of the 39th summit of the African Union, the Chairman of the Commission Mahmoud Ali Youssouf said the "extermination" of the Palestinian people must end.

No science, just vibes.

These cuts were expected, but highly concerning nonetheless. Of particular concern is the budget for @unitaid.bsky.social - which possesses a unique space in modifying health technologies so they reach patients faster. Hoping @afd-france.bsky.social maintains €. www.france24.com/en/france/20...

Great to be at @lselaw.bsky.social today for an event organised by @sivathambisetty.bsky.social on DSI and Access and Benefit Sharing. Great discussions on whether we’ve done the intellectual/philosophical work on what DSI is before defining it, the polycentric governance of ABS laws, and more.

Maniacal behaviour. My fear is what this means for the rest of the world. Hoping that our global majority countries have better sense than U.S. states and U.S. leadership in general.

When is the American establishment going to realise that their domestic affairs are probably more important to handle instead of continuing to finance genocide?

A Swedish study of nearly 60,000 women finds COVID-19 vaccines don't affect fertility. The additional evidence may not persuade all wome. Public attitudes about vaccines, Dr. Tara Smith said, “tend to be based on vibes and feelings," not data. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lar...

It is endlessly frustrating that this needs to be said, but to believe this is to believe that cold blooded mass murder of civilians is acceptable in Gaza, but not in Minneapolis. A politics that is imaginatively stunted and racially circumscribed.

Those core values killed 1.3 million Iraqis and who knows how many thousands of Palestinians. I don’t think anyone should be surprised vis-a-vis the imperial boomerang. And now innocent Americans, including a mum and an ICU nurse, have faced the consequences.

The United States is completely lawless.

Sobering. And stupid.

Glad this is suspended. It should have never been approved in the first place. We need strength and consistency from all Global Majority governments. Not Accra’s message of public health independence one second and acquiescing to U.S. imperialist demands the next.

Spoke to a friend who works in Madagascar today. Two young men aged 20 and 24 died prematurely. As is custom, buried within 24 hours without a post-mortem/disease investigations. And for years, we have heard from global health agencies that Mada is “too hard” “too complex”. These are the results.

I can’t find it now but saw a graph on the reduction of scientific workforce in the United States. This will indisputably hurt the United States, and the world at large. So much technical expertise and technological advancement in medicines and diagnostics comes from the U.S.