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Anyone who writes about US "leadership" in global health needs to seriously pause and ask exactly what leadership means

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

The government of the USA is openly racketeering. And that is not even the worst thing about them. ‘Owning the libs’ is doing a heck of a lot of heavy lifting right now…

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>270,000 #HealthWorker job losses due to 🇺🇸 foreign aid cuts PEPFAR supported programs & countries struggling to maintain essential services & fill critical gaps An existential threat to #GlobalHealth that calls for solidarity & action www.amfar.org/wp-content/u...

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Spot on

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The free speech absolutists strike against

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From chaos 🇺🇸 … to opportunity 🇨🇳 healthpolicy-watch.news/china-has-in...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

But ultimately history will judge him as the guy who refused to convict Trump after Jan 6th in the Senate and allow him to run for president again.

submitted 10 days ago • 263 comments

“It is all our wish that we will have the health personnel to take care of us”. A great reminder of why investing in the health workforce is so important at the start of the Nigeria learning & sharing event. @globalhealthpart.bsky.social @bensimms65.bsky.social @margaretcaffrey.bsky.social

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> 270,000 PEPFAR-funded health & care worker job losses = millions of people at risk ❌Nurses ❌Doctors ❌Laboratory & Clinic staff ❌Community health workers ❌Surveillance No #HealthForAll without #HealthWorkers

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#USA: We are calling on the US government to immediately resume funding for the full range of PEPFAR operations as well as other critical health and humanitarian aid. Uncertainty around PEPFAR program puts millions of people at risk www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/uncer...

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

🎯… spot-on

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We’re excited to be hosting the #GHWP Sharing & Learning event in Abuja tomorrow, where we'll be celebrating the #GHWP Health Partnerships' achievements, hearing from National Stakeholders on #HSS, and sharing learnings from the prog in Nigeria! 🇬🇧🤝🇳🇬 Stay tuned for updates 📖🔗https://bit.ly/4gFvlCm

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✅ Done 🇬🇧 🤝 🇪🇺 ✍️sign the petition here petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

submitted 13 days ago • 170 comments

USAID/PEPFAR impact on Mzansi 🇿🇦 ❌14,000 #healthworker jobs lost ❌ 8,000 #CommunityHealthWorker jobs lost ❌ 2,000 #Nurse jobs in danger ❌ Huge impact on services & health outcomes bhekisisa.org/health-news-...

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Powerful…

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ICYMI Right now in the UK anyone can call themselves a nurse even if they have no qualifications, have been struck off or have a conviction I'm asking my MP to support this bill

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Q: how do we leverage public-private partnership to create #healthworkforce #jobs & #skills? A: Co-create #Investment & cooperation opportunities: 👉🏽Apprenticeships 👉🏽Career pathways 👉🏽Leadership development 👉🏽Training & skills 👉🏽Mentoring www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Trump has accused South Africa of "human rights violations" and a land grab. The South African government has hit back.

submitted 15 days ago • 255 comments

We are up against Brandolini’s Law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. wapo.st/4ht6mU5

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Transform global health⚕️ Pay attention 👁️ Ignore the distractions ❌ Act ✅ Respond ✅ Resist ✅ @thelancet.bsky.social

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🌟 Speaker Alert! 🌟 We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Chukwukaodinaka Nwakaego, Director of Diaspora at the Ministry of Health, to the #UKAfricaHealthSummit!🎉 She’ll join an expert panel on diaspora engagement in the UK, Kenya, Nigeria & Ghana Book now👉 bit.ly/4aJPczf

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Bravo President Ramaphosa committing to forge ahead with the NHI - South Africa's route to UHC www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xor...

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“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.” The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av

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"Trump's actions must be called out for the damage they are doing" @thelancet.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

submitted 17 days ago • 146 comments

This is really good news. Its concerning that in the UK anyone can call themselves a nurse and offer nursing services even if they have no qualifications, have been struck off or convicted Fully support this bill

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Many #HIV programmes worldwide remain paralysed despite being exempted from the United States’ 90-day freeze on foreign aid and “stop work order”. ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @unaids.org @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social @nschwalbe.bsky.social @oneillinstitute.bsky.social #USAID #PEPFAR

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Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.

submitted 20 days ago • 455 comments

🐊 Friendly monday reminder that billionaires and financiers are eating your income... ...and organizing through unions is how we win it back. 💪😍

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Grift …blatant, unchecked grift

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“… Some of those that work forces … are the same that burn crosses…” youtu.be/bWXazVhlyxQ?...

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[EXCLUSIVE] WHO Member States Clash Over Proposals to Slash Budget in Light of Financing Crunch @who.int Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #250 [The Files In-Depth] genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/who-member...

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🎞️In this video presentation, Wesam Mansour of @lstmnews.bsky.social explores health workforce preparedness for shocks in Turkey using the country’s response to the 2023 earthquakes as a measure. ▶️https://buff.ly/4jFrNCP @paulmarsden.bsky.social

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Imagine seeing what Truss did to the UK economy and thinking ‘I’ll have a bit of that - but even worse’

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

Chaos in disguise, dead cat strategy & destructive proposal all in one: #Trump's proposal for an alternative to @who.int It will undermine trust & cooperation at a time when we need to strengthen #WHO We prebunk the idea & call on countries to reject it. www.bmj.com/content/388/... @bmj.com

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

The United States is the only high-income country without universal health coverage If health is not seen as a human right, then how will universal health coverage ever become a reality??

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

Trump just ripped away Medicaid from millions of Americans. This could get people killed.

submitted 26 days ago • 630 comments

Trump is killing people.  “CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately”  “Experts said the sudden stoppage… would set back work on investigating and trying to stop outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox in Africa, as well as brewing threats from around the world.” apnews.com/article/cdc-...

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U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.

submitted 27 days ago • 116 comments

“Labour needs to come up with a plan to improve social care, increase funding and help people leave hospital to go home.”

submitted 27 days ago • 46 comments

American hubris on full display Sad to see this common framing in many US op-eds on WHO: 1. US the world 'leader' in global health 2. Without US, WHO and everything falls apart 3. US should have 'leverage' and power via WHO 4. US national & security interests are key 5. US should keep China away

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Prescient Desaparecidos: “MariKKKopa’ (2015) youtube.com/watch?v=DpvX...

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#1Dollar1World Do the right thing 💙 Join the movement and pay it forward… 🌍 #ProudToBeWHO Proud to contribute #Protect #Invest #Together whofoundation.donorsupport.co/page/FUNEKRB...

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💥BREAKING NEWS💥The executive order puts a pause on new foreign aid spending, as well as a stop-work order for existing grants and contracts.

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@matthewkavanagh.bsky.social, director of the Center for Global Health Policy & Politics, responds to the U.S. State Department's freeze on new funding for nearly all U.S. aid programs worldwide: "There is no excuse for this level of disruption." x.com/MMKavanagh/s...

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