Amesika Nyaku, MD, MS
@amesikanyakumd.bsky.social
Infectious Diseases physician, HIV specialist, harm reduction advocate, fighting for inclusion and equity. Views my own. She/her
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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Right now, the U.S. is withholding over $4 billion in promised funding for PEPFAR and the Global Fund—initiatives PIH Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer helped shape.
These delays put millions of lives at risk and threaten decades of global health progress.
Follow the thread to learn more 👇
These delays put millions of lives at risk and threaten decades of global health progress.
Follow the thread to learn more 👇
September 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Right now, the U.S. is withholding over $4 billion in promised funding for PEPFAR and the Global Fund—initiatives PIH Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer helped shape.
These delays put millions of lives at risk and threaten decades of global health progress.
Follow the thread to learn more 👇
These delays put millions of lives at risk and threaten decades of global health progress.
Follow the thread to learn more 👇
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From improvised #HIV cocktails in the early 2000's with harsh side effects to today’s long-acting injections, Moses Superchargers story shows how #HIVResearch has transformed lives.
Join #24HoursToSaveAIDSResearch for more powerful stories & why continued investment matters.
🔗 bit.ly/45Qftts
Join #24HoursToSaveAIDSResearch for more powerful stories & why continued investment matters.
🔗 bit.ly/45Qftts
September 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
From improvised #HIV cocktails in the early 2000's with harsh side effects to today’s long-acting injections, Moses Superchargers story shows how #HIVResearch has transformed lives.
Join #24HoursToSaveAIDSResearch for more powerful stories & why continued investment matters.
🔗 bit.ly/45Qftts
Join #24HoursToSaveAIDSResearch for more powerful stories & why continued investment matters.
🔗 bit.ly/45Qftts
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We're talking #HIVcure with @oniblackstock.bsky.social in hour four of #24hourstosaveAIDSresearch.
#HIVresearch saves lives. Federal support must continue!
saveaidsresearch.org/program
#HIVresearch saves lives. Federal support must continue!
saveaidsresearch.org/program
September 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We're talking #HIVcure with @oniblackstock.bsky.social in hour four of #24hourstosaveAIDSresearch.
#HIVresearch saves lives. Federal support must continue!
saveaidsresearch.org/program
#HIVresearch saves lives. Federal support must continue!
saveaidsresearch.org/program
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Vox has a very good article explaining the mess that just happened at the Supreme Court. In the end, they are ensuring that no matter what happens to the canceled grants, there’s no chance of resolving fast enough to matter for the work or PIs. Struck a death blow www.vox.com/scotus/45886...
August 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Vox has a very good article explaining the mess that just happened at the Supreme Court. In the end, they are ensuring that no matter what happens to the canceled grants, there’s no chance of resolving fast enough to matter for the work or PIs. Struck a death blow www.vox.com/scotus/45886...
New Jersey is taking the dangerous step of compounding the harms of the #biguglybill by diverting opioid settlement funds to 4 hospitals to address budgetary shortfalls from the anticipated #Medicaid cuts.
July 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
New Jersey is taking the dangerous step of compounding the harms of the #biguglybill by diverting opioid settlement funds to 4 hospitals to address budgetary shortfalls from the anticipated #Medicaid cuts.
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Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.
A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.
If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.
If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
July 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.
A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.
If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.
If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
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🚨BREAKING: IDSA, along with AAP, APHA, ACP and others, has filed a lawsuit against HHS/Secretary Kennedy to stop unlawful changes to vaccine policy and defend public health.
We refuse to stand by while America’s public health safeguards are torn apart. bit.ly/4lm7UkW
We refuse to stand by while America’s public health safeguards are torn apart. bit.ly/4lm7UkW
July 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🚨BREAKING: IDSA, along with AAP, APHA, ACP and others, has filed a lawsuit against HHS/Secretary Kennedy to stop unlawful changes to vaccine policy and defend public health.
We refuse to stand by while America’s public health safeguards are torn apart. bit.ly/4lm7UkW
We refuse to stand by while America’s public health safeguards are torn apart. bit.ly/4lm7UkW
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News today shows that despite a court ruling that accuse NIH grants cannot be terminated based on words deemed inappropriate by the new administration/DOGE, NIH continue to screen grants in such a way
Exclusive: NIH still screens grants in process a judge ruled illegal
Directives by the Trump administration are still being applied to grant materials despite court order.
www.nature.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
News today shows that despite a court ruling that accuse NIH grants cannot be terminated based on words deemed inappropriate by the new administration/DOGE, NIH continue to screen grants in such a way
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This week’s meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, was politicized, chaotic and not transparent.
Our statement: bit.ly/3ZPB0jO
Our statement: bit.ly/3ZPB0jO
June 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
This week’s meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, was politicized, chaotic and not transparent.
Our statement: bit.ly/3ZPB0jO
Our statement: bit.ly/3ZPB0jO
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Breaking news: The National Institutes of Health has ceased terminating grants on politically sensitive topics after a federal judge ruled last week that the cancellations were illegal.
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Following court order, NIH ceases new terminations of politically sensitive grants
After a judge told agency to restore hundreds of killed grants, NIH backs off plans to cancel more existing projects
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June 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Breaking news: The National Institutes of Health has ceased terminating grants on politically sensitive topics after a federal judge ruled last week that the cancellations were illegal.
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It’s been 2 weeks since we sent the #BethesdaDeclaration.
Nearly 30 thousand people have signed, including patients, family, advocates, friends, neighbors, academics & Nobel Laureates. Add your name to the growing list!
act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
Nearly 30 thousand people have signed, including patients, family, advocates, friends, neighbors, academics & Nobel Laureates. Add your name to the growing list!
act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
act.standupforscience.net
June 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It’s been 2 weeks since we sent the #BethesdaDeclaration.
Nearly 30 thousand people have signed, including patients, family, advocates, friends, neighbors, academics & Nobel Laureates. Add your name to the growing list!
act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
Nearly 30 thousand people have signed, including patients, family, advocates, friends, neighbors, academics & Nobel Laureates. Add your name to the growing list!
act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
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Red states and blue states alike
Equal opportunity damage to biomedical research and the US economy
Equal opportunity damage to biomedical research and the US economy
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, one of the largest academic research and hospital care systems in the southeast, expects to lay off 650 employees as a result of grant and other funding cuts made by the Trump Administration, it said in a statement. From @anitawadhwani.bsky.social.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center to lay off up to 650 after Trump administration grant cuts • Tennessee Lookout
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, expects to lay off 650 employees as a result of grant and funding cuts by the Trump Administration,
tennesseelookout.com
June 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Red states and blue states alike
Equal opportunity damage to biomedical research and the US economy
Equal opportunity damage to biomedical research and the US economy
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Now CDC workers are speaking out. We need to support them.
CDC staff and retired workers have calld for Health Sec. RFK Jr.'s resignation in a protest outside headquarters.
The demonstration comes a day he gutted a federal vaccine safety panel and vowed to replace all its members.
The demonstration comes a day he gutted a federal vaccine safety panel and vowed to replace all its members.
CDC staff and retired workers call for Kennedy’s resignation in a protest outside headquarters
The demonstration came a day after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gutted a federal vaccine safety panel and vowed to replace all its members.
nbcnews.to
June 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Now CDC workers are speaking out. We need to support them.
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Yesterday, when I signed they were aiming for 6000 signatures. Today there are almost 15,000 and they are aiming for 25,000!
If you haven't signed and want to support the scientists at the NIH that are trying to prevent its dismantling, please sign.
You can do it anonymously!
If you haven't signed and want to support the scientists at the NIH that are trying to prevent its dismantling, please sign.
You can do it anonymously!
🔥 if you haven’t already, take a moment to sign below in support of the brave NIHers -
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
June 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Yesterday, when I signed they were aiming for 6000 signatures. Today there are almost 15,000 and they are aiming for 25,000!
If you haven't signed and want to support the scientists at the NIH that are trying to prevent its dismantling, please sign.
You can do it anonymously!
If you haven't signed and want to support the scientists at the NIH that are trying to prevent its dismantling, please sign.
You can do it anonymously!
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Welcome to the fight #AmericanMedicalAssociation. Good to have you on board.
The AMA's House of Delegates has adopted an emergency resolution opposing RFK Jr.'s move to gut the federal vaccine advisory council. The nation's top doctors association will seek a U.S. Senate investigation of his action, as well as alternate vaccine advice from elsewhere to invest in.
AMA opposes RFK Jr.'s dismantling of vaccine panel, seeks Senate investigation
Delegates resolved that the nation's largest doctors group will advocate in support of the longstanding ACIP structure.
www.chicagobusiness.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Welcome to the fight #AmericanMedicalAssociation. Good to have you on board.
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New moment of “WTF”:
-pt with rare infection (so rare will leave unnamed, as could reveal identity)
-nl times: reach out to CDC for testing
-now: “they confirmed they are not currently accepting specimens for serology…they suggested we could reach out to Canada National Reference Center”
😳😳😳
-pt with rare infection (so rare will leave unnamed, as could reveal identity)
-nl times: reach out to CDC for testing
-now: “they confirmed they are not currently accepting specimens for serology…they suggested we could reach out to Canada National Reference Center”
😳😳😳
June 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
New moment of “WTF”:
-pt with rare infection (so rare will leave unnamed, as could reveal identity)
-nl times: reach out to CDC for testing
-now: “they confirmed they are not currently accepting specimens for serology…they suggested we could reach out to Canada National Reference Center”
😳😳😳
-pt with rare infection (so rare will leave unnamed, as could reveal identity)
-nl times: reach out to CDC for testing
-now: “they confirmed they are not currently accepting specimens for serology…they suggested we could reach out to Canada National Reference Center”
😳😳😳
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'The Despised Blood of the Negro Flows Freely in the Veins of Jews'
Shanice McBean writes:
"There has always been an intimate connection between antisemitism and anti-Black racism. In Hitler’s 1928 second book he praises Jim Crow for its integration of racial hierarchy and
https://is.gd/rUhSda
1/4
Shanice McBean writes:
"There has always been an intimate connection between antisemitism and anti-Black racism. In Hitler’s 1928 second book he praises Jim Crow for its integration of racial hierarchy and
https://is.gd/rUhSda
1/4
June 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
'The Despised Blood of the Negro Flows Freely in the Veins of Jews'
Shanice McBean writes:
"There has always been an intimate connection between antisemitism and anti-Black racism. In Hitler’s 1928 second book he praises Jim Crow for its integration of racial hierarchy and
https://is.gd/rUhSda
1/4
Shanice McBean writes:
"There has always been an intimate connection between antisemitism and anti-Black racism. In Hitler’s 1928 second book he praises Jim Crow for its integration of racial hierarchy and
https://is.gd/rUhSda
1/4
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I wanted to show support for these brave public servants and to allow others, including the scientific community, to join me. In partnership with @standupforscience.bsky.social, we have a way for you to do that... www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
www.standupforscience.net
June 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I wanted to show support for these brave public servants and to allow others, including the scientific community, to join me. In partnership with @standupforscience.bsky.social, we have a way for you to do that... www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
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Scientists at UC Berkeley have filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin, accusing of politically motivated cuts to funding.
“I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people,” says Sabeeha Merchant, Berkeley professor.
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@tktk.bsky.social
“I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people,” says Sabeeha Merchant, Berkeley professor.
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@tktk.bsky.social
UC Berkeley researchers team up for first-of-its-kind lawsuit over Trump funding cuts
University of California staff members hope to use a class action lawsuit to restore their research funding.
zurl.co
June 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Scientists at UC Berkeley have filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin, accusing of politically motivated cuts to funding.
“I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people,” says Sabeeha Merchant, Berkeley professor.
zurl.co/xnJgg
@tktk.bsky.social
“I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people,” says Sabeeha Merchant, Berkeley professor.
zurl.co/xnJgg
@tktk.bsky.social
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Holy crap. Ron Johnson just proudly admitted that the GQP Senate is going to come after Medicare, not just Medicaid.
Contact every Senator you can.
Tell them to #StopTheBillionaireBailoutBill
Hands off our healthcare!
#DemVoice
#DemsUnited
#USDemocracy
#voicesForVictory
Contact every Senator you can.
Tell them to #StopTheBillionaireBailoutBill
Hands off our healthcare!
#DemVoice
#DemsUnited
#USDemocracy
#voicesForVictory
June 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Holy crap. Ron Johnson just proudly admitted that the GQP Senate is going to come after Medicare, not just Medicaid.
Contact every Senator you can.
Tell them to #StopTheBillionaireBailoutBill
Hands off our healthcare!
#DemVoice
#DemsUnited
#USDemocracy
#voicesForVictory
Contact every Senator you can.
Tell them to #StopTheBillionaireBailoutBill
Hands off our healthcare!
#DemVoice
#DemsUnited
#USDemocracy
#voicesForVictory
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NEW at grant-watch.us: Emma Mairson and Marian Jarlenski report on funding freezes at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern, that have received zero payments for #NIH grants since the start of April: grant-watch.us/posts/trends...
June 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
NEW at grant-watch.us: Emma Mairson and Marian Jarlenski report on funding freezes at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern, that have received zero payments for #NIH grants since the start of April: grant-watch.us/posts/trends...
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I helped explain to the Chicago Tribune the enourmous and irrational damage the NIH funding freeze is causing at Northwestern. “You’re at risk of losing an entire next generation of scientists" "it’s terrifying; it’s completely senseless." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/w...
Worried Northwestern lab directors describe ‘bleak’ atmosphere in wake of Trump research funding freeze
The Trump administration’s freezing of $790 million in federal research funding for Northwestern University has left concerned lab directors without key grants and forced the university to spend mi…
www.chicagotribune.com
June 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I helped explain to the Chicago Tribune the enourmous and irrational damage the NIH funding freeze is causing at Northwestern. “You’re at risk of losing an entire next generation of scientists" "it’s terrifying; it’s completely senseless." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/w...
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With the President releasing his proposed FY26 budget that completely guts federal and global HIV prevention initiatives, as well as cutting NIH funding by 40%, we must act now! Call your representatives, local and federal! Speak up and tell them these cuts will kill
www.hivma.org/news/news_an...
www.hivma.org/news/news_an...
Terminating CDC’s HIV prevention program would be costly
www.hivma.org
June 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
With the President releasing his proposed FY26 budget that completely guts federal and global HIV prevention initiatives, as well as cutting NIH funding by 40%, we must act now! Call your representatives, local and federal! Speak up and tell them these cuts will kill
www.hivma.org/news/news_an...
www.hivma.org/news/news_an...