An inspiration for my entire life. Thank you Jane, for your wisdom, your intelligence, your heart, and your sheer guts. We'll try to carry on and make you proud. 💙 1934-2025

For the next 24 hours: saveaidsresearch.org

On September 3, 2025, 20+ organizations — including TAG — signed this IDSA joint statement calling for the resignation of Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The statement outlines the many ways Kennedy’s “agenda” is meant to undermine science and public health. www.treatmentactiongroup.org/statement/jo...

Jay Bhattacharya, an icon of apolitical objectivity, is giving a talk at a conference for MAGA ideologues this week. I thought it worthwhile to dissent to his hypocrisy. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...

Demetre also calls out fascism

This is from Dr Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at CDC and resigned today. He specifically blames RFK Jr, the COVID vaccination recs, and decisions forced down from HHS onto scientists. Please read the whole thing. 🧪

Good piece underscoring how vital #tuberculosis drugs are in shortage, or absent from the market entirely, in Europe, and how this reflects "a significant failure of political prioritization". www.ijidonline.com/article/S120... 💊🌐 Canada faces similar access issues for #TB drugs (see post below ⬇️).

Canada faces similar access problems, with #EssentialMedicines for #tuberculosis in shortage, or not marketed in Canada at all. See for instance our article www.cmaj.ca/content/195/... and this recent report from @stoptbcanada.bsky.social www.stoptbcanada.com/news/access-...

Your support is helping change that. Socios en Salud (as @pih.org is called in Peru) is training local health workers, expanding screening programs, and making sure no one is denied care because of where they live.

Interested in supporting the brave NIHers mentioned in RFK jr.’s hearing today? Join 29k of us - Nobel Laureates, NIHers, doctors, scientists & concerned citizens- in signing our letter of support: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #SaveNIH #RFKjr

We’re on the verge of the deepest cuts to U.S. health care in history. The Senate could vote this weekend on a bill that would rip coverage from nearly 11 million people and slash $1 trillion from Medicaid and other essential programs. Take action now: act.pih.org/protect-medi...

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

RFK Jr. is the public enemy to american health - purging experts, gutting protections, & pushing conspiracy. #StandUpForScience stands for American science, health, and life itself against the Trump regime. Join the fight, join the #SummerFightForScience: zurl.co/JtXlu#StandUpForScience#SummerFightForScience#CutsCostLives #RFKjr

A letter to the NIH Director noting the FACT that clinical trials have been halted. Thanks, @amyaconroy.bsky.social

“Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH director, has made a point of welcoming dissent. A letter from from his officials will test that.” 💥Be careful what you wish for, Jay. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration

We need YOU to protect global health! The White House is formally trying to claw back funds allocated for life-saving programs including #PEPFAR and #Tuberculosis prevention. We have 45 days to tell our representatives this is unacceptable, call now! win.newmode.net/call...

Couldn’t they have fallen out before a couple hundred thousand poor people died?

Amidst all the japes, it'd be great if someone could persuade the current occupant of the White House that restoring US funding to South Africa should be part of his Musk revenge plan.

Our featured Limited Art Edition for May is 2021’s “Book Marks,” by Nancy Brooks Brody. The 3 versions of this take inspiration from Silence = Death coalition’s pink triangle — inverted to show disdain for the symbol designed to shame in 1933. Purchase: www.treatmentactiongroup.org/support-us/l....

Oh man, what a self-own. A govt lawyer brought up DEI in passing, Judge Young was Not Happy: "If putting these words together, DEI, is somehow offensive... does that mean our policy is homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion? Are you going to stand there and tell me that's now the policy of the NIH?"

TAG is amplifying the facts— lives are being lost, waivers are not implemented. Meanwhile claims by Rubio at House Appropriations hearings that massive cuts to US State Department spending will not undermine foreign aid. Learn more here. avac.org/global-healt...

A truly historic evening at the #WHA78: the #PandemicAccord resolution was approved in Committee A with 124 in favour, 0 against and 11 abstentions. The final step: adoption in plenary tomorrow morning. My thanks once again to @who.int Member States for choosing to keep the world safer. 🙏

What happens if habeas corpus is suspended and all Americans are in danger of arbitrary punishment? A growing number of judges say Trump's ongoing legal fights are existential for all Americans’ fundamental rights, not just those of immigrants. Clearly, they’re right.

This is the kind of data that makes the case. 📊 AIDS deaths were rising—then dropped fast after 2005. ⬇️ PEPFAR launched in 2003. That’s not a coincidence. That’s impact. 🌍 We use this data to show what works in global health. It’s why PEPFAR still matters. ❤️

TAG, @msf.ca , and @samrcza.bsky.social developed this brief that details which TB & HIV clinical trials + research sites are impacted by the USG funding cuts to South Africa, why it matters, and what donors can do. Read/download: www.treatmentactiongroup.org/publication/...

Everyone in this picture is complicit

“Book Marks,” 2021, by Nancy Brooks Brody is our featured Limited Art Edition for May. Get more information about the piece, including which editions are available, and how to purchase: www.treatmentactiongroup.org/support-us/l.... (This image includes all three versions of “Book Marks”.)

Interesting piece, though curious why here Biovac's CEO says "One of Biovac’s flagship projects is the development of an oral cholera vaccine from scratch, which is expected to be ready for market by 2028" when 2.5yrs ago they announced a tech transfer deal w/ IVI to produce cholera vaccine by 2026?

1/ Overdose prevention for me, but not for thee? We wonder why RFKJ gutted our Tribal Support Team (TST) working within tribal communities to prevent overdoses, especially since he's refreshingly open about his heroin addiction struggles. nativenewsonline.net/health/cdc-s...

“Racial disparities in access to health care and survival have been well described for many medical conditions. Establishing equity by eliminating these disparities, a goal of the Healthy People 2010 initiative has been proposed as a means of preventing tens of thousands of deaths” (NIH funded)

Bottom line: measles vaccination is highly effective and safe, reducing the chances of getting measles by 95% @scientificdiscovery.dev @ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

We spoke to dozens of sex workers in Gauteng about their struggle to access health services, particularly antiretroviral treatment, in the wake of US funding cuts Read groundup.org.za/article/how-... by Kimberly Mutandiro

This report of interview with new NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social reveals a real $hit show... www.science.org/content/arti... 1/n

Autistic 4th Grader Goes Viral For Powerful Rebuke To RFK Jr.: 'I'm Not Broken' www.comicsands.com/autistic-boy... He would be a better HHS Secretary...

Redlining: A very old evil that continues to cast its shadow (like so many in the U.S.)

NIH's work saves lives—& Trump is gutting it. Straight from D.C. I headed to Seattle Children's to hear from researchers & patients alike about the importance of NIH funding—it's not just about lines in a budget, it's about lifesaving discoveries. We ALL need to speak up to save it.

Insane is exactly the phrase I would have used! ‘This is insane:’ New NIH policy on funding foreign scientists stirs outrage www.science.org/content/arti...

Visit www.congress.gov/members/find... and tell your legislators to demand that public health and funding — including fully-restored HIV prevention and Medicaid programs — and global HIV, TB, and HCV research partnerships be protected. Thanks for this message, Kendall! #WeWontBeSilenced

Love this tiny moment in @treatmentactiongroup.org's latest newsletter - made me laugh out loud! Thanks, @markhar77.bsky.social, for preserving your humanity amidst the madness. (BTW if y'all haven't signed up for this yet, it's a great resource: treatmentactiongroup.salsalabs.org/emailsignup/...)

Man I’m just so fucking proud of all the people who didn’t give up and aren’t going to give up

What does it take to deliver health care as a human right? Our Theory of Change guides how we strengthen public systems, deliver care, and build equity—from the ground up. Follow the thread to learn more 🧵👇

🚨 Still not getting the attention it deserves: Critical systems behind Medicare, Medicaid, and more—programs that serve over 150 million Americans—are at risk of collapse. Wired article explains how mass layoffs in HHS IT + cybersecurity leave our health infrastructure dangerously exposed. 🧵

Please donate to the South African civil society groups mobilizing to change this. rustinfund.org/2025/03/25/t...

And here is how: rustinfund.org/2025/03/25/t...

"We urge the promotion of a new model of global health where multilingualism is not only encouraged, but the norm" globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....