Health Brigade, formerly Fan Free Clinic
healthbrigade.bsky.social
Health Brigade, formerly Fan Free Clinic
@healthbrigade.bsky.social
We provide exceptional health services to those in need in Richmond, VA. Virginia’s first and oldest charitable clinic, since 1970.
Richmond now has 24/7 vending machines stocked with naloxone, fentanyl test strips, & hygiene supplies — free for anyone who needs them. 💜 Proud that Health Brigade is part of this life-saving, dignity-centered work.
📰 Read more via Richmond Magazine
#HarmReduction #CareIsResistance
Urgency and Humanity
The city begins distributing free overdose prevention supplies through vending machines.
richmondmagazine.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
RHHD encourages HIV testing for Richmond area residents at risk - www.wric.com/news/local-n...
June 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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The Supreme Court’s incoherent new attack on trans rights, explained

www.vox.com/scotus/4...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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The Supreme Court’s incoherent new attack on trans rights, explained
What the hell did the Court just do to equal protection law?
www.vox.com
June 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Medicaid cuts would devastate mental health, substance use treatment services in red states www.statnews.com/2025/06/12/m... via @statnews.com
Medicaid cuts would devastate mental health, substance use treatment services in red states
Though behavioral health conditions do not discriminate between Democrats and Republicans, the Medicaid cuts may be particularly damaging for residents of red states.
www.statnews.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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In an extraordinary public rebuke, career NIH employees wrote to Trump health officials that they feel “compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources.”
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‘We Dissent’: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That ‘Harm the Health of Americans’ - KFF Health News
A letter signed by more than 300 National Institutes of Health workers — some still working, others who were fired this year — is an extraordinary public rebuke of actions taken under Director Jay Bha...
kffhealthnews.org
June 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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For trans people on Medicaid, Trump's "big, beautiful bill" is anything but.
For trans people on Medicaid, Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" is anything but
"They can pry my estrogen from my cold, dead hands.”
www.motherjones.com
June 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
‘Care is resistance.’ Va. free health clinics strategize survival after state, federal funding cuts virginiamercury.com/2025/06/02/c...
‘Care is resistance.' Va. free health clinics strategize survival after state, federal funding cuts • Virginia Mercury
Richmond’s Health Brigade considers selling building to counter lost funding and keep offering services to uninsured or underinsured residents
virginiamercury.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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As of April 26, only 23% of adults had received the (#COVID #vaccine) shot, per the CDC.

“So summer will be a time when the population is sort of ripe for another wave of COVID,” said @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social Professor & Virologist @andrewpekosz.bsky.social

www.today.com/health/coron...
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A New COVID Variant, NB.1.8.1, Is Starting to Spread in the U.S. What Are Its Symptoms?
NB.1.8.1, recently caused surges in China and other parts of Asia. Will cases spike in the US this summer? Here's what we know about the new variant so far.
www.today.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Excellent new paper on the impact of work requirements for SNAP or Medicaid.

In short: it backfires.
Ok folks, we know work requirements reduce benefits without increasing work (cc: @chloeneast.bsky.social)

But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed?

New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story...

Thread below 👇
SNAP work requirements have biggest effect on those least able to work
Most people pushed out of SNAP in Connecticut didn’t find their way back in, even when work requirements were later reversed.
tobin.yale.edu
June 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM