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Detention without trial. Criminalizing opposition. Familiar tactics - in apartheid South Africa, Russia…

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Oh look. Another bribery and extortion scheme.

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Today the pharma industry and its G7+ allies are proposing that every mention of technology transfer also mention mutually agreed and the footnote defining mutually agree. This is a terrible outcome and a huge reverse from Saturday's text.

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Hardly surprising that Marjorie Taylor Greene profited during #TrumpTariffs chaos! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

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The US has blocked a G7 statement to condemn Russia for its Palm Sunday missile attack on Ukraine's city of Sumy, which killed at least 35 people and injured over 100, including children. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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This is reminiscent of the #AIDS denialism South Africa suffered under Pres Thabo Mbeki. US Health Sec #RFKJr has blamed childhood #vaccines for #autism for years. ⬇️ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 7th lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 250,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 540,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,000,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,560,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪

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'Savage' UK cuts will deprive 55m of aid worldwide – today's front page from The Independent 📰 You can download a digital newspaper every morning with a subscription to Independent Premium Subscribe here ➡️ bit.ly/3Q6bzWD

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When your opponent checkmates you in one countermove. And guess where those rare minerals are mined - African countries where #Trump & #Musk decimated #USAID programmes: '#China Halts Critical Exports as Trade War Intensifies' www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...

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📢 Not meeting the deadline is not an option! We are counting on you, Member States, to get it done by Tuesday! 💊 People over profits. Is that so hard? #pandemicaccord

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Can't believe that WHO INB negotiations related to pandemics in future is almost done! Current wedge issue: Its always about how to protect pharma's interest. Lives of human beings who are poor never ever matters. healthpolicy-watch.news/pandemic-agr... by @kerrycullinan.bsky.social

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Down to the wire. We are counting on Member States to pull together and get the pandemic agreement done!

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After talking all night, #PandemicAgreement negotiators at #WHO agree on everything but a single section - and a vexing word 'voluntary'. Will they make the new Tuesday deadline? @nschwalbe.bsky.social @theindpanel.bsky.social @panaction.bsky.social @pandemiccenter.bsky.social bit.ly/42kXN8Z

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Health services worldwide have been “severely disrupted” by the US slashing aid, and @who.int is radically reducing its operations – but there has been no formal engagement between the #WHO @ the White House. ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @drtedros.who.int healthpolicy-watch.news/no-talks-bet...

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A78/23 is no published - it's a document I've been eagerly awaiting! apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf... Concerning that S.Am MS Chile, Mexico and Venezuela have not paid up (echoing Argentina?) Accompanying reporting from @kerrycullinan.bsky.social healthpolicy-watch.news/no-talks-bet...

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⏰Only two days left for #PandemicAccord negotiations at @WHO in Geneva. 👩🏽‍💻Co-chairs reported progress and momentum over the past 24 hours and member states left after midnight last night and started again early this morning. 🏁Stakeholders made a final plea to get it done.

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When the entire world market is your casino and you're the dealer! #InsiderTrading #TrumpTariffs

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Tomorrow we will know if @who.int member states have agreed on a #PandemicTreaty - essential for keeping the world safe against disease amid outbreaks of #mpox, #H5N1, #measles - and the rise of #antivaxxers healthpolicy-watch.news/pandemic-agr...

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The high court has ordered the Gauteng health department to “take all steps necessary” to treat a backlog of 3,000 cancer patients. The department is appealing against the ruling Read groundup.org.za/article/cour... by Liezl Human

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Ongoing promotion of quacks by #RFKJr is so dangerous for a country that experienced high-than-necessary #COVID-19 deaths because of #antivax messaging from politicians and the profit-driven 'wellness' industry. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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🔴True Grit: The Student Blockades in Serbia Nicole Burgund reports from inside one of Europe’s most important protests bylinetimes.com/2025/04/08/t...

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The simultaneous crash of the stock market and the bond market is super ominous. But also a totally foreseeable consequence of this insane tariff policy. So is it incompetence or part of a plan to crash the economy? An increasingly important question.

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“While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: ‘We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.’”

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📋As currently drafted, the #PandemicAgreement secures important gains. 🎯 We urge member states to stay laser-focused and reach an agreement. 🗞️Thanks to @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social's @kerrycullinan.bsky.social for closely following the discussions. healthpolicy-watch.news/pandemic-agr...

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Dropping US Biodefenses: Why Cuts to Federal Health Agencies Make Americans Less Safe www.justsecurity.org/109914/cuts-...

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what a visual

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It's always heartbreaking for a person to lose their job – but its shocking when it happens at the whim of a president without any warning or proper reason. My ❤️ goes out to US federal workers.

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This #WorldHealthDay, we celebrate the many lives saved thanks to commitments to maternal and child health. But to deliver #HopefulFutures to everyone, @who.int calls on all countries to step up their commitments and investments to protect the health of all mums and babies.

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Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

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RFK Jr. cuts CDC labs investigating outbreaks of STDs, hepatitis. There was not enough time for scientists to shut down labs before they were locked out from their email systems and the building, with equipment still running and hazardous materials left unattended. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/rfk...

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#Trump cuts to #NIH science grants are 'ideological purge', claim unions and researchers opposing the move in court

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What has the tiny impoverished country of #Lesotho ever done to the US to deserve the highest #Trumptariffs (50%) in the world after China? Trump even said recently ' no one even knows where Lesotho is'. This is going to kill them 😢 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Several EU countries want tech transfer of medical products during a #pandemic to be 'voluntary'. Legal experts say this will undercut domestic laws that allow govts special measures during emergencies⬇️ #PandemicAgreement

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BREAKING: Layoffs begin at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, conducting research, regulating food and drugs.

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Amidst a #measles outbreak in the US and increasing climate-change-related national disasters, #RFKJr messing with the body dealing with national disasters is likely to be disastrous. www.statnews.com/2025/03/28/h...

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Over on Twitter…

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“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”

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Gutting US #HHS, #RFKJr is preparing for private sector takeover, experts warn ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Africa CDC leaders met with U.S. leaders to advance global health security. "Concerned about the risk of another African pandemic, which … would translate into more crisis, with the economic vulnerability.” - Dr. Ngashi Ngongo. via @kerrycullinan.bsky.social healthpolicy-watch.news/african-lead...

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court election is a test for #ElonMusk money. Here is the Dems candidate’s responses to @ACLU questions. (Musk’s guy didn’t respond) www.aclu-wi.org/en/publicati...

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WHO regional director Saima Wazed is the daughter of #Bangladesh former PM Sheikh Hasina, who was chased out of the country after a vicious govt clampdown on student protests. Hasina was accused of using her influence to get her daughter elected, so the appointment was a mess from the start. ⬇️

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China's glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small glaciers disappearing completely and glacial retreat intensifying in recent years, official data released in March showed. www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/ene...

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In South Africa, we would call what the US govt is going through as #StateCapture - the takeover of govt by proxies. And in this case, the proxy is #Russia

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Doctors share what you shouldn't be doing if you want to live a long and healthy life.

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Civil society organisations worldwide face political backlash after #Trump & #Musk link #USAID grantees to 'terrorism', with investigations, crackdowns – as well as loss of income, according to survey by EU SEE ⬇️ @hivos.bsky.social @hrw.org healthpolicy-watch.news/civil-societ...

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Statement from #Columbia Journalism School Faculty Defending Press Freedom ⬇️ journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...

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Details of grim early impact of #USAID termination of funding for #malaria, #TB, #HIV, #vaccinations & #humanitarian aid, while @who.int mulls 'terrible choices' as it looks to cut 25% of budget ⬇️ healthpolicy-watch.news/grim-global-...

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