Gorik Ooms
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Human rights law; global health law
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Even if at risk today, still worth remembering how it was done
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The successful scaling-up of antiretroviral therapy globally has many lessons for advancing universal health coverage: progress at risk - Globalization and Health
Globalization and Health - The expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART) over the past twenty years is one of the most significant achievements in public health. It has transformed HIV from a...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12992-025-01181-w?utm_source=bmc_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CONR_12992_AWA1_GL_DTEC_054CI_TOC-260101
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Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
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âIn a partnership on equal footing, one side cannot decide to reduce a previously agreed contribution by 25% or 50%. A cooperation should be more reliable than a donorârecipient relationship,â says
@gorikooms.bsky.social
, health-policy researcher at ITM.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The US and Europe have cut billions in health aid â can anyone fill the gap?
It's time to radically reimagine global health, leaders tell World Health Summit in Berlin.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03384-y
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Kristof Decoster
3 months ago
Wondering when we're going to "sunset" Ryanair, Exxon Mobil, Amazon and all the rest of them.
#WHS2025
#GHreform
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Kristof Decoster
3 months ago
Surely one of the more annoying things here at
#WHS2025
is the ubiquitous use of the term "innovative financing" by many, when they mean "common sense taxation", even of the prudent kind, at least when considering we live in a world of massive inequality.
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World Health Summit
3 months ago
âThis crisis is an opportunity for reform.â â John-Arne RĂžttingen, CEO, Wellcome Trust
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World Health Summit
3 months ago
đ„đ» Weâre live now
#WHS2025
has officially started. đ Know someone passionate about global health? Share this post and invite them to join the
#WHS2025
conversation. đ All livestream links are available on our website: https://f.mtr.cool/pcehexgjrn
#GlobalHealth
#HealthForAll
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Jo Wolff
5 months ago
Er, do they all talk at the same time and answer the question they wanted you to ask rather than the one you actually asked?
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Raffaella Ravinetto
5 months ago
The @ALLEA_academies Board has published a statement expressing its deep respect and full support for the public statement issued by Professor David Harel on July 14th 2025.Â
#Gaza
#health
#aid
allea.org/portfolio-it...
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Statement of the Board of ALLEA in Alignment with the Stance of Prof. David Harel, President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
https://allea.org/portfolio-item/statement-of-the-board-of-allea-in-alignment-with-the-stance-of-prof-david-harel-president-of-the-israel-academy-of-sciences-and-humanities/
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Belén Tarrafeta
8 months ago
As governments pull back from global aid, rethinking Global Health is urgent. Thanks to
@gorikooms.bsky.social
for calling for real multilateralism and pragmatism. Reforming Global Health is a shared responsibility.
#GlobalHealth
#Multilateralism
#HealthEquity
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Is global health security worth 0.01% of our gross domestic product?
https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0004491
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
8 months ago
The end of aid: What The Global South needs to do Six key actions countries can take â and should have taken a long time ago â if they are to liberate themselves from dependence on foreign aid
@themrise.bsky.social
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
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The end of aid: What The Global South needs to do
Six key actions countries can take â and should have taken a long time ago â if they are to liberate themselves from dependence on foreign aid.
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025/05/20/end-aid-what-global-south-needs-do
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Kristof Decoster
8 months ago
Nice metaphor!
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Andrew Green
8 months ago
This is Lydia Nabirye. A Ugandan, she was a mother and dreamed of becoming a nurse. She also lived with HIV w/support from a U.S.-funded program. The Trump administration eliminated the program in January. Lydia died two months later:
forsaken.life/orals/lydia-..
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@unaids.org
@asia-ilse.bsky.social
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Lydia Nabirye - FORSAKEN
I told her there's still time for everything. It's a long life. I told her she would not be neglected.
https://forsaken.life/orals/lydia-..
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Ellen MH Mitchell
8 months ago
Rebuild TB programs with less precarious financial & governance structures
#tbsky
www.itg.be/en/health-st...
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International health threat response
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria should step up efforts
https://www.itg.be/en/health-stories/press-releases/international-collective-action-is-required-to-address-global-health-security-threats
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GHA EU
8 months ago
đȘđșThe 2025 EU
#GHPF25
is taking place today, organised by the
@ec.europa.eu
in Brussels. đWe will be present alongside many other civil society organisations to ask important questions regarding accountability and share key recommendations for the future of this strategy. See you there!
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While discussing 'the' 'new' global health architecture at
#GHPF25
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8 months ago
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PLOS Global Public Health
8 months ago
NEW Opinion from
@gorikooms.bsky.social
et al: Is global health security worth 0.01% of our gross domestic product?
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Is global health security worth 0.01% of our gross domestic product?
https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0004491
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Melissa Barber
9 months ago
I think most people have a hard time believing that the USAID/PEPFAR cuts are as bad as they are bc it's impossible to stomach that policymakers would knowingly kill millions. But this is what is happening. PEPFAR supported antiretroviral therapy for 20.6 million people.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Portraits: A 10-year-old, a house painter and a mom who are running out of HIV pills
HIV medications were supposed to be exempt from U.S. aid cuts. In Zambia, for example, those on the ground say otherwise.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/04/20/g-s1-61227/hiv-usaid-zambia-teenager
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Raffaella Ravinetto
9 months ago
Immunization for all is humanly possible, but often practically impossible for millions of forcibly
#displaced
people. We need more research&resources: if
#Health
is a human
#right
, immunization should not leave anyone behind
#WorldImmunizationWeek
@salehaljadeeah.bsky.social
@itmantwerp.bsky.social
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Dr Fifa A Rahman
10 months ago
đšNEW ARTICLE
@thediplomat.com
: Seismic political shifts in the West means that we need a long term South-South roadmap. Written by 6 experts from each region of the Global South, we contemplate the decline of the West and propose next steps.
@munira.bsky.social
Read:
thediplomat.com/2025/03/a-ro...
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A Roadmap for South-South Cooperation
Greater Global South solidarity is the only viable solution in the face of the seismic political shifts in the West.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/03/a-roadmap-for-south-south-cooperation/
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André Picard @picardonhealth
10 months ago
Africans with
#HIV
facing new dangers, as Trump administration cuts aid, by
@geoffreyyork.bsky.social
, Jeffrey Moyo
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
via
@theglobeandmail.com
#GlobalHealth
#AIDS
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Africans with HIV facing new dangers, as Trump administration cuts aid
As many as 600,000 people could die over the next 10 years in South Africa alone as a result of U.S. funding cuts, study says
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-africans-with-hiv-facing-new-dangers-as-trump-administration-cuts-aid/
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Ellen 't Hoen
11 months ago
Argentinaâs copycat move: follows US in leaving the WHO
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Argentina to withdraw from World Health Organization after Trump exit
Argentina will pull out of the World Health Organization (WHO), the presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said on Wednesday, following President Donald Trump's executive order last month to pull the United States out of the global health group.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-withdraw-world-health-organization-after-trump-exit-2025-02-05/
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MO*Magazine
12 months ago
âDe rapporten van het VN-Klimaatpanel worden met de jaren alarmerender, terwijl hun politieke impact paradoxaal genoeg lijkt af te nemen.â Opinie van milieuwetenschapper Aaron Van Poucke.
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âDe klimaatcrisis is meer dan ooit een politieke keuzeâ â MO*
Milieuwetenschapper roept op om de urgentie van de klimaatcrisis écht te erkennen en er doortastend naar te handelen.
https://buff.ly/4gRefSR
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Rob Yates
about 1 year ago
Developing countries in Asia would be much better advised to follow Thailand's truly universal health model than India's system that selectively provides insurance against inpatient hospital care:
www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/gen...
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Thailand's 30-baht healthcare plan in final roll out
The fourth and final phase of the so-called "treatment anywhere" 30-baht universal healthcare scheme will kick off in the last 31 provinces of the country on Jan 1, as the nation adopts more digital...
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2927146/thailands-30-baht-healthcare-plan-in-final-roll-out
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Rob Yates
about 1 year ago
It really is time Kenya abandoned insurance models and followed Thailand's tax financed route to UHC
eastleighvoice.co.ke/universal%20...
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Confusion and concerns persist as Kenyans struggle with new social health insurance scheme
While the government has maintained that SHIF is functioning effectively, many Kenyans are still frustrated and eager for the system's issues to be addressed.
https://eastleighvoice.co.ke/universal%20health%20coverage/101657/confusion-and-concerns-persist-as-kenyans-struggle-with-new-social-health-insurance-scheme
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about 1 year ago
We need to discuss the impact of sanctions on access to health. Read our correspondence published at the Lancet and titled âSanctions and the right to health in post-Assad Syriaâ.
@rravinetto.bsky.social
@gorikooms.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Sanctions and the right to health in post-Assad Syria
Dec 8, 2024, marked the end of the five-decade long regime of Bashir al-Assad and the Assad family in Syria, characterised by systemic repression, human rights abuses, and crimes against humanity.1 After the protests of 2011, Assad's response involved indiscriminate bombings, targeting of health-care facilities and health-care workers, and the use of internationally prohibited chemical weapons, triggering one of the worst humanitarian crises since World War 2.1
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02790-9/fulltext
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Kristof Decoster
about 1 year ago
Second good news in one week. After the resilience of South-Korean democracy, the end of Abbas' dictatorship in Syria. Even if plenty of caveats, not all is lost yet.
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Richard Van Noorden
about 1 year ago
Some stats from Nature survey of science-policy experts: âą 70% said governments are not routinely using science advice âą 80% say policymakers donât understand scienceâŠ. âą âŠ.but 73% say researchers donât understand policy! by
@helenpearson.bsky.social
in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Louis Johnston
about 1 year ago
The Myth of Objective Data, by Melanie Feinberg
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-...
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The Myth of Objective Data
When we view objectivity and subjectivity as opposites rather than complements, we distort the empirical realities of data collection.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-objective-data/
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Remco van de Pas
about 1 year ago
Developing countries urged to reject âbad dealâ as Cop29 climate talks falter. Talk grows of a walkout from poor countries in response to âunacceptableâ and âinsultingâ finance proposal
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Developing countries urged to reject âbad dealâ as Cop29 climate talks falter
Talk grows of a walkout from poor countries in response to âunacceptableâ and âinsultingâ finance proposal
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/22/developing-countries-told-to-reject-bad-deal-as-cop29-talks-falter
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MO*Magazine
about 1 year ago
Migratie-expert Ugochi Daniels (IOM): âDe klimaatverandering wakkert een migratiecrisis aanâ
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Migratie-expert Ugochi Daniels: âDe klimaatverandering wakkert een migratiecrisis aanâ â MO*
Ugochi Daniels (IOM) ziet migratie enkel nog toenemen als gevolg van de klimaatverandering.
https://buff.ly/4i2cIus
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Kim Ozano
about 1 year ago
#HSR2024
may be over but there is still an opportunity to continue sharing knowledge. Check out the following episodes capturing some of the innovations and thinking in Global Health, from the halls of the symposium.
bit.ly/HSR_CCS_E1
bit.ly/HSR_CCS_E2
Follow
@ccspodcast.bsky.social
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Kristof Decoster
about 1 year ago
Check out this week's IHP news 804: Final dispatch from Nagasaki
www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/newsletter/
pdf:
www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/wp-content/u...
To subscribe to the weekly KM tool:
www.internationalhealthpolicies.org
Next issue in two weeks: around 8 December.
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Newsletter
https://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/newsletter/
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Katri Bertram
about 1 year ago
At
#HSR2024
and wondering where to follow and post - as an individual and in your organizational capacity? Is social media becoming a significant determinant of health? Weâve got you covered with the timeliest session đ Join Thursday, 11.40am.
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Lucy Gilson
about 1 year ago
Our addiction to fossil fuels is driving the climate crisis. Plenary 1
#HSR2024
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