⚡️New preprint (not peer-reviewed)⚡️

In the SaDAPT trial with people with #HIV and #tuberculosis symptoms in 🇲🇼🇱🇸, we investigated if antiretroviral therapy should be initiated immediately, or delayed until TB results available. ssrn.com/abstract=523...

Outcomes (incl. IRIS) similar across both arms.

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

"The United States won’t contribute anymore to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, until the global health organization has “re-earned the public trust,” U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday." pro.politico.eu/news/200889

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...

If you are an early career researcher interested in global health, implementation science, and primary care in LMICs and UK or US opportunities are thin on the ground, the University of Botswana is recruiting! A great post with a great team… www.ub.bw/connect/job-...

Our paper showing the devastating consequences of cryptococcal meningitis in Africa. Not only do many die, but 51% of survivors and their families suffer catastrophic healthcare expenditure. We must prioritize advanced HIV disease as funding cuts bite. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

See our letter to Keir Starmer on the hugely damaging cuts to overseas aid.

$2.1 billion is the equivalent of 🌍 military expenditure every 8h

$2.1 billion is the price of 1 stealth bomber

$2.1 billion is 1/4 of what the tobacco industry spends on advertising & promotion every year.

It seems somebody switched the price tags on what is truly valuable in our world.

#WHA78

The impact of the PEPFAR funding freeze on HIV deaths and infections: a mathematical modelling study of seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa

The sudden cessation of #PEPFAR funding likely results in tens of thousands of #HIV deaths and new infections

www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
#MedSky

“ The United States spent roughly US$12 billion on global health in 2024.
Without that yearly spending, roughly 25 million people could die in the next 15 years…”
www.nature.com/artic...
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Interventions to support people with HIV following hospital discharge: a systematic review

✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky

Rebecca Dennison: "The recklessness we’re seeing is like dropping an egg on the floor – you can’t just pick it up & put it back together again...Do not bend a knee in advance, do not crumple in despair – that’s exactly what they want you to do." #CROI2025

Accessible HIV science is vital in an age of misinformation. 

That's why we are exploring a future for leading HIV website aidsmap. 

More details: tht.org.uk/news/accessible-hiv-science-vital-age-disinformation

groundup.org.za/article/sout...

A reminder that the tracker for direct deaths resulting from loss of PEPFAR funding and devastation to HIV programs continues to tick as well. These are not just number these are human lives being destroyed in real time.
pepfar.impactcounter.com

🚨New preprint (not yet peer-reviewed)🚨

Identifying advanced #HIV disease supports life-saving treatments. But access to CD4 testing is now really challenging.

Unfortunately, clinical staging is not accurate to identify AHD: we need more investment in CD4 testing!

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....