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Indi Trehan
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Humanitarian, pediatrician, professor. Global child health, malnutrition, infectious diseases, emergency & critical care, climate change. Logical liberalism, bad puns. Rage against the dying of the light.

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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

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November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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USAID fed the world and fought disease. Its destruction fed only power. The soul of American service was traded for control. Today Elon Musk, the butcher of USAID, got a trillion dollar paycheck from Tesla.
The Quiet American Idea, Erased
On November 3, 2025, USAID marked its sixty-fourth anniversary. One week later, the American idea of service without conquest stands dismantled, undone by power and neglect.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Always fun to be on ID consults and see a great case and then tag along while the trainees write it up!
Spotting Dengue
A previously healthy 13-year-old boy was admitted to our hospital after his second visit to the emergency department in 5 days. He presented with a fever of 41.6 °C, headache, abdominal pain, vomiting...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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The late Gore Vidal’s tongue in cheek quip about the United States having one political party with two right wings seems a propos.
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.

It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
By orders of magnitude.
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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In #Sudan, “the deadly combination of hunger, disease and displacement is placing millions of children at risk,” warns UNICEF.

Here's what you need to know about the crisis and how our colleagues on the ground are responding:
Famine Takes Hold in Sudan
In the western regions of Sudan, active conflict and severely restricted humanitarian access are driving a sharp deterioration in hunger and malnutrition.
www.unicefusa.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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A statistic that continues to live rent free in my mind: half of all international shipping is just moving fossil fuels around.
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲

Attacks on medical personnel, facilities and services are increasing and are deliberate

www.bmj.com/content/391/...
#Gaza #Ukraine #Sudan #Congo #Yemen #Afghanistan #Haiti @msf.ca
How attacking healthcare has become a strategy of war
Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan have put a spotlight on attacks on healthcare facilities and staff in conflict zones. The BMJ looks at the data, which seem to show a new strategy of war: removing civilians’ ...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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⚠️ If you’re not paying attention to #Sudan, you should be.

Since April 2023, civil war has killed > 150,000 & displaced > 12 million people

The humanitarian crises has led to famine, genocide, sexual assault & collapse of health systems

The world must not look away

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sudan war: A simple guide to what is happening
Sudan was thrown into disarray in 2023 when its army and a paramilitary group began a power struggle.
www.bbc.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”
- Howard Zinn
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Hasta la victoria siempre.
A century of progress in access to primary education
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Since the conflict in #Sudan began, UNICEF has been delivering Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food across the country — navigating unsafe terrain and active frontlines — to ensure children at risk of malnutrition receive timely treatment.

Here's what happens when they receive these packets of hope:
Hope in a Red Packet
Helping vulnerable children recover from malnutrition during the crisis, one packet at a time
www.unicef.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Maternal deaths have more than halved in the last forty years
October 29, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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New comment:

Tuberculosis and undernutrition: improving estimates to reinforce the policy imperative

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Tuberculosis and undernutrition: improving estimates to reinforce the policy imperative
Undernutrition is a key driver of the global tuberculosis epidemic, increasing the risk of people developing tuberculosis disease and of poor outcomes in those who do.1 Each year, WHO publishes estima...
www.thelancet.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Truth.
October 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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UW ID Fellow Dharini Gopalan with a very challenging Dengue diagnosis, now in the Journal of Pediatrics… #IDSky

www.jpeds.com/article/S002...
Spotting Dengue
A previously healthy 13-year-old boy was admitted to our hospital after his second visit to the emergency department in five days. He presented with a fever to 41.6°C, headache, abdominal pain, vomiti...
www.jpeds.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Nobel Prize given for showing the importance of investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth. Basically the opposite of what the US is doing. 😭
October 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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One step further in decentralizing care for SAM
First large RCT shows caregiver training boosts knowledge & confidence in at-home monitoring of children with uncomplicated SAM in community-based treatment.
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Effect of caregiver training on knowledge and confidence of at-home clinical and anthropometric surveillance of children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition: analysis of a cross-over cluster ...
Introduction Patient-centred task-shifting models may be a promising strategy in the community-based management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) to alleviate pressure on health systems and increase ...
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October 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Proud to be a small part of this effort with others who've volunteered in Gaza. www.bmj.com/content/390/...
October 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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U.S. funding for global health saves an estimated 3.3 million lives each year. From HIV treatment to malaria prevention, the impact is real and measurable: b-gat.es/3KP8yd6
October 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM