Carole Mitnick
@cdmitpih.bsky.social
For those who care about TB—and humanity—this is a terrific and well-referenced article about the death and destruction sown by the current U.S. administration. www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis... thank you @cidrap, for this comprehensive reporting. @tbfighters.org @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
Experts warn loss of USAID endangers the fight against deadly TB
www.cidrap.umn.edu
September 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
For those who care about TB—and humanity—this is a terrific and well-referenced article about the death and destruction sown by the current U.S. administration. www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis... thank you @cidrap, for this comprehensive reporting. @tbfighters.org @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
#PMC2025 will officially begin shortly. Chris started his ride for #ekiponkoloji & @pih.org cancer services ~1 hour ago. He is carrying names of our (& our supporters’) friends & family affected by cancer on his back & in his ❤️. U can still donate at profile.pmc.org/CJ0049. 🙏 for ur support!
August 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
#PMC2025 will officially begin shortly. Chris started his ride for #ekiponkoloji & @pih.org cancer services ~1 hour ago. He is carrying names of our (& our supporters’) friends & family affected by cancer on his back & in his ❤️. U can still donate at profile.pmc.org/CJ0049. 🙏 for ur support!
My hubby, Chris Johnson is among the Brookline riders in #PMC2025 featured in this @brooklinenews.bsky.social piece (brookline.news/dozens-of-br...). He is riding again for @pih.org Ekip
Onkoloji team. Read more about Chris’s motivation & donate at: profile.pmc.org/CJ0049
Onkoloji team. Read more about Chris’s motivation & donate at: profile.pmc.org/CJ0049
Why I Ride ...to attack disparities in cancer care
In this year's PMC ride, Ekip Onkoloji will be using the funds we raise to support our oncology work in multiple countries:
profile.pmc.org
July 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
My hubby, Chris Johnson is among the Brookline riders in #PMC2025 featured in this @brooklinenews.bsky.social piece (brookline.news/dozens-of-br...). He is riding again for @pih.org Ekip
Onkoloji team. Read more about Chris’s motivation & donate at: profile.pmc.org/CJ0049
Onkoloji team. Read more about Chris’s motivation & donate at: profile.pmc.org/CJ0049
Thx to @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social and Ed. Ari Colosio for the rapid publication of endTB-Q & podcast. Resistant forms of TB are only more likely w/US abdication of its role in global health. Trial results remind us of the dangers of one-size-fits-all approaches in TB & all infectious diseases.
🎙️NEW Podcast
We were pleased to be joined by Dr Mitnick & Dr Guglielmetti to discuss the endTB-Q trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a drug regiment to treat #TB in individuals with pre-XDR tuberculosis.
🎧Listen here: tinyurl.com/mw2u2u8z
🔗Read the full article: tinyurl.com/4y4kf35y
We were pleased to be joined by Dr Mitnick & Dr Guglielmetti to discuss the endTB-Q trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a drug regiment to treat #TB in individuals with pre-XDR tuberculosis.
🎧Listen here: tinyurl.com/mw2u2u8z
🔗Read the full article: tinyurl.com/4y4kf35y
July 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Thx to @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social and Ed. Ari Colosio for the rapid publication of endTB-Q & podcast. Resistant forms of TB are only more likely w/US abdication of its role in global health. Trial results remind us of the dangers of one-size-fits-all approaches in TB & all infectious diseases.
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Great op-ed @usatoday.com from longtime TB Fighter Quinn Yates: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
11,000 more TB patients died after Trump's USAID cuts. That number will rise. | Opinion
The potential for thousands of new deaths from TB is not worth the less than 1% in federal savings that came from cutting USAID.
www.usatoday.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Great op-ed @usatoday.com from longtime TB Fighter Quinn Yates: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
If senators do NOT know “what they are actually rescinding”, they fail their constituents by voting for rescissions. Pls use these simple tools to quickly let your senators know you oppose the rescissions &/or oppose voting without full information. win.newmode.net/callaboutres...
July 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
If senators do NOT know “what they are actually rescinding”, they fail their constituents by voting for rescissions. Pls use these simple tools to quickly let your senators know you oppose the rescissions &/or oppose voting without full information. win.newmode.net/callaboutres...
@harvardmed.bsky.social thank you for documenting this travesty.
The heartbreak abounds in every direction, but it's so devastating to lose young people to HIV when we know how to prevent those deaths. We are now witnessing the horrific impacts of the U.S. Government's cuts to global health. magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/wor...
In a World with HIV Treatment, Why Are Teenagers Still Dying of AIDS?
magazine.hms.harvard.edu
June 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
@harvardmed.bsky.social thank you for documenting this travesty.
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The House passed a bill that would gut global health funding and the Senate is next.
Programs like PEPFAR, TB care, and UNICEF are all on the line.
🗣️ Call your Senator today and tell them: Vote NO on the $9.4B rescissions package.
Take action: act.pih.org/global-healt...
Programs like PEPFAR, TB care, and UNICEF are all on the line.
🗣️ Call your Senator today and tell them: Vote NO on the $9.4B rescissions package.
Take action: act.pih.org/global-healt...
Don't cut funding
Tell Congress to reverse the Trump Administration's decision to freeze all U.S. foreign aid spending on global health programs, including the delivery of lifesaving medicines to vulnerable patients.
act.pih.org
June 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The House passed a bill that would gut global health funding and the Senate is next.
Programs like PEPFAR, TB care, and UNICEF are all on the line.
🗣️ Call your Senator today and tell them: Vote NO on the $9.4B rescissions package.
Take action: act.pih.org/global-healt...
Programs like PEPFAR, TB care, and UNICEF are all on the line.
🗣️ Call your Senator today and tell them: Vote NO on the $9.4B rescissions package.
Take action: act.pih.org/global-healt...
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What do foreign aid cuts mean for TB care?
The U.S. has led the fight against TB for decades. Cutting aid now risks millions of lives.
TB is curable. The crisis is political.
Dr. @cdmitpih.bsky.social and Dr. Jen Furin break it down in this video. Watch and help fill the gap: pih.org/fill-the-gap
The U.S. has led the fight against TB for decades. Cutting aid now risks millions of lives.
TB is curable. The crisis is political.
Dr. @cdmitpih.bsky.social and Dr. Jen Furin break it down in this video. Watch and help fill the gap: pih.org/fill-the-gap
June 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What do foreign aid cuts mean for TB care?
The U.S. has led the fight against TB for decades. Cutting aid now risks millions of lives.
TB is curable. The crisis is political.
Dr. @cdmitpih.bsky.social and Dr. Jen Furin break it down in this video. Watch and help fill the gap: pih.org/fill-the-gap
The U.S. has led the fight against TB for decades. Cutting aid now risks millions of lives.
TB is curable. The crisis is political.
Dr. @cdmitpih.bsky.social and Dr. Jen Furin break it down in this video. Watch and help fill the gap: pih.org/fill-the-gap
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Would you spend $20 to save a human life? What about $20 to save thousands of lives? What if I told you that if you pay US taxes, you already *have* paid this $20, but Trump doesn’t want it to be spent saving lives?
That’s exactly what’s happening with these rescissions: youtu.be/oJW2iES4oPw?...
That’s exactly what’s happening with these rescissions: youtu.be/oJW2iES4oPw?...
The Bargain of a Lifetime
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
youtu.be
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Would you spend $20 to save a human life? What about $20 to save thousands of lives? What if I told you that if you pay US taxes, you already *have* paid this $20, but Trump doesn’t want it to be spent saving lives?
That’s exactly what’s happening with these rescissions: youtu.be/oJW2iES4oPw?...
That’s exactly what’s happening with these rescissions: youtu.be/oJW2iES4oPw?...
47’s “style of politics…depends on inconsistency, radical unwillingness to be bound by his own or others’ past actions, and verbal incoherence as a kind of gonzo performance art.”👏
"A one sentence explanation of the Federalist Society vs. Trump might be this. An ideology welded to a spoils machine is in a fight to the death against a spoils machine welded to a spoils machine." www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-federa...
The Federalist Society claims it's just a debating club
Now it risks becoming one.
www.programmablemutter.com
May 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
47’s “style of politics…depends on inconsistency, radical unwillingness to be bound by his own or others’ past actions, and verbal incoherence as a kind of gonzo performance art.”👏
Science is not partisan. The research funded by USG in Montana & around the world, helps Americans directly and indirectly through innovation and economic benefits.
May 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Science is not partisan. The research funded by USG in Montana & around the world, helps Americans directly and indirectly through innovation and economic benefits.
In addition to destroying the withering social safety net in the US, the Bill passed by the House: 1) impedes the judicial branch’s ability to hold govt actors in contempt when they defy judicial order; 2) halts state protections against AI-generated election lies.
May 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
In addition to destroying the withering social safety net in the US, the Bill passed by the House: 1) impedes the judicial branch’s ability to hold govt actors in contempt when they defy judicial order; 2) halts state protections against AI-generated election lies.
“Absurd to insinuate”, indeed. Direct statements about the extreme level of corruption & cruelty are much more apt. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
May 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
“Absurd to insinuate”, indeed. Direct statements about the extreme level of corruption & cruelty are much more apt. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
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AIDS activists protested today at Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s appearing at the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The protesters, including TAG’s Kendall Martinez-Wright, demanded full reinstatement of PEPFAR’S programs and funding for FY26. Details: healthgap.org/press/aids-a...
May 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
AIDS activists protested today at Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s appearing at the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The protesters, including TAG’s Kendall Martinez-Wright, demanded full reinstatement of PEPFAR’S programs and funding for FY26. Details: healthgap.org/press/aids-a...
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From GPS to GLP agonist drugs, US Federal science funding has provided so many remarkable innovations!
Everything is now under jeopardy!
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
Everything is now under jeopardy!
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
From GPS to GLP agonist drugs, US Federal science funding has provided so many remarkable innovations!
Everything is now under jeopardy!
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
Everything is now under jeopardy!
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
Thanks to @treatmentactiongroup.org & @msfaccess.org for speaking up about 1) the fact that research funding is NOT aid; & 2)the damage to human health resulting from eliminating research support to S. Africa.
South Africa's TB and HIV Research at Risk: A Call to Catalyze Urgent Action by Funders – Treatment Action Group
Developed by TAG, Médecins Sans Frontières, and the South African Medical Research Council, this issue brief provides information about TB and HIV clinical trials and research programs impacted by U.S. government funding disruptions...
default.salsalabs.org
May 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Thanks to @treatmentactiongroup.org & @msfaccess.org for speaking up about 1) the fact that research funding is NOT aid; & 2)the damage to human health resulting from eliminating research support to S. Africa.
This is nuts. More manipulation & destruction of human health advances—especially in infectious diseases. Who ever heard of “expiring” opportunities because they hadn’t previously expired?
New NIH Notice "expiring" a large number of funding opportunities because
"We have identified a number of Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) that were not expired or reissued as indicated in the implementation plan outlined in NOT-OD-24-085."
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
"We have identified a number of Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) that were not expired or reissued as indicated in the implementation plan outlined in NOT-OD-24-085."
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-113: Notice of Early Expiration of Notices of Funding Opportunities Related to the Simplified Review Framework for NIH Research Grant Applications
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Early Expiration of Notices of Funding Opportunities Related to the Simplified Review Framework for NIH Resea...
grants.nih.gov
May 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is nuts. More manipulation & destruction of human health advances—especially in infectious diseases. Who ever heard of “expiring” opportunities because they hadn’t previously expired?
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This is a spectacular tribute to people who care about others, simply because they are human and intentionally because they are the most marginalized, isolated. We have a lot to learn from @pih.org and socios en salud. 🥰
As is often the case, my least-viewed vlogbrothers of the year is also my favorite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbDe...
Health CARE: Thoughts from Lima
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
www.youtube.com
May 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This is a spectacular tribute to people who care about others, simply because they are human and intentionally because they are the most marginalized, isolated. We have a lot to learn from @pih.org and socios en salud. 🥰
“I’m not knocking the drug companies,” Mr. Trump said on Monday before signing the order. “I’m really more knocking the countries than the drug companies.” These are the countries that have managed to secure lower prices for their drugs…
Pharmaceutical stocks rose Monday on the news.
With No Real Policy, Trump Asks Drugmakers to Lower U.S. Prices
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
“I’m not knocking the drug companies,” Mr. Trump said on Monday before signing the order. “I’m really more knocking the countries than the drug companies.” These are the countries that have managed to secure lower prices for their drugs…
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It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid.
While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️
x.com/i/broadcasts...
While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️
x.com/i/broadcasts...
HAPPENING NOW: Republicans are putting health care on the chopping block / X
HAPPENING NOW: Republicans are putting health care on the chopping block
x.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid.
While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️
x.com/i/broadcasts...
While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️
x.com/i/broadcasts...
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📣👋🏼May-19⏰12:30pm US ET #HIV Research in Progress w/Dr Hejazi @HarvardBiostatsℹ️ mailchi.mp/fa44136af7e2... ✔️ @hsph.harvard.edu @ragoninstitute.bsky.social @cdmitpih.bsky.social @bidmcreseach.bsky.social @tuftsmedschool.bsky.social @harvardgh.bsky.social @harvardepi.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
📣👋🏼May-19⏰12:30pm US ET #HIV Research in Progress w/Dr Hejazi @HarvardBiostatsℹ️ mailchi.mp/fa44136af7e2... ✔️ @hsph.harvard.edu @ragoninstitute.bsky.social @cdmitpih.bsky.social @bidmcreseach.bsky.social @tuftsmedschool.bsky.social @harvardgh.bsky.social @harvardepi.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social
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Very proud of endTB co-PI, Lorenzo Guglielmetti, for being honored by @timemagazine.bsky.social #Time100 Health for his catalytic work on new, safe, short regimens for MDR-TB. Results published in @nejm.org #TBSky
TIME100 Health: Lorenzo Guglielmetti
Find out why Lorenzo Guglielmetti is on the TIME100 Health 2025 list.
time.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Very proud of endTB co-PI, Lorenzo Guglielmetti, for being honored by @timemagazine.bsky.social #Time100 Health for his catalytic work on new, safe, short regimens for MDR-TB. Results published in @nejm.org #TBSky
With resources, will, innovation, solidarity, & compassion, we can solve many major health problems. It will be harder w/USG abdication. That fight is not over yet! Thx to Gates for doubling down. #TBSky
May 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
With resources, will, innovation, solidarity, & compassion, we can solve many major health problems. It will be harder w/USG abdication. That fight is not over yet! Thx to Gates for doubling down. #TBSky
Very proud of endTB co-PI, Lorenzo Guglielmetti, for being honored by @timemagazine.bsky.social #Time100 Health for his catalytic work on new, safe, short regimens for MDR-TB. Results published in @nejm.org #TBSky
TIME100 Health: Lorenzo Guglielmetti
Find out why Lorenzo Guglielmetti is on the TIME100 Health 2025 list.
time.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Very proud of endTB co-PI, Lorenzo Guglielmetti, for being honored by @timemagazine.bsky.social #Time100 Health for his catalytic work on new, safe, short regimens for MDR-TB. Results published in @nejm.org #TBSky