Martha Tholanah
@martthol.bsky.social
Interested in public health, clinical research, SRHR, access to life-saving prevention and treatment services for all.
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Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs
They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.
www.motherjones.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
What's happened since?
A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
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Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon. nyti.ms/3Sbusb3
May 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon. nyti.ms/3Sbusb3
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"The projected cost of production at scale is <$100 per person-year. Gilead's new VL for #lenacapavir prevention and treatment undermines access. MICs with fast-growing HIV epidemics have been excluded; 23% of new HIV infections occur in these countries."
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The Need for Lenacapavir Compulsory Licences in Ending the HIV Epidemic
The projected cost of production for lenacapavir is <$100 per person-year, far below current Gilead prices of $40 000 per person-year. Gilead's voluntar
academic.oup.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"The projected cost of production at scale is <$100 per person-year. Gilead's new VL for #lenacapavir prevention and treatment undermines access. MICs with fast-growing HIV epidemics have been excluded; 23% of new HIV infections occur in these countries."
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
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Investing in maternal and newborn health is an investment in the future, not a cost.
It supports:
💙 Lifelong health
💙 Healthy societies
💙 #HopefulFutures
💙 Prosperity and stability
Improving the health of women and babies means collaborating and investing in #HealthForAll
It supports:
💙 Lifelong health
💙 Healthy societies
💙 #HopefulFutures
💙 Prosperity and stability
Improving the health of women and babies means collaborating and investing in #HealthForAll
April 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Investing in maternal and newborn health is an investment in the future, not a cost.
It supports:
💙 Lifelong health
💙 Healthy societies
💙 #HopefulFutures
💙 Prosperity and stability
Improving the health of women and babies means collaborating and investing in #HealthForAll
It supports:
💙 Lifelong health
💙 Healthy societies
💙 #HopefulFutures
💙 Prosperity and stability
Improving the health of women and babies means collaborating and investing in #HealthForAll
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Our original “Cheat Sheets for Tuberculosis Activists” are so popular we split one of them into two separate pieces. Download the “TB Treatment Regimen Cheat Sheet” and the “TB Preventive Treatment (TPT) Regimen Cheat Sheet” now. www.treatmentactiongroup.org/publication/...
April 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Our original “Cheat Sheets for Tuberculosis Activists” are so popular we split one of them into two separate pieces. Download the “TB Treatment Regimen Cheat Sheet” and the “TB Preventive Treatment (TPT) Regimen Cheat Sheet” now. www.treatmentactiongroup.org/publication/...
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AmplifyChange is accepting proposals for an IT support services supplier over 3 years. We seek a proactive partner who can drive innovation, keep AmplifyChange agile, and lead on necessary changes.
Click here to read more: https://f.mtr.cool/xfdzoiwjbs
Click here to read more: https://f.mtr.cool/xfdzoiwjbs
April 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
AmplifyChange is accepting proposals for an IT support services supplier over 3 years. We seek a proactive partner who can drive innovation, keep AmplifyChange agile, and lead on necessary changes.
Click here to read more: https://f.mtr.cool/xfdzoiwjbs
Click here to read more: https://f.mtr.cool/xfdzoiwjbs
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Every year TAG works collaboratively to co-organize and co-sponsor a community #HIV cure research workshop ahead of the CROI scientific meeting. Slides and recordings from the 2025 event – kindly hosted by @sfaidsfound.bsky.social – are now available. www.treatmentactiongroup.org/webinar/2025...
March 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Every year TAG works collaboratively to co-organize and co-sponsor a community #HIV cure research workshop ahead of the CROI scientific meeting. Slides and recordings from the 2025 event – kindly hosted by @sfaidsfound.bsky.social – are now available. www.treatmentactiongroup.org/webinar/2025...
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Now more than ever, we must step up action and protect #HealthForAll.
Recent funding cuts are hitting global health hard—let’s take action before it’s too late! 🧵
Recent funding cuts are hitting global health hard—let’s take action before it’s too late! 🧵
March 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Now more than ever, we must step up action and protect #HealthForAll.
Recent funding cuts are hitting global health hard—let’s take action before it’s too late! 🧵
Recent funding cuts are hitting global health hard—let’s take action before it’s too late! 🧵
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Vivid Coffee is helping get us through this week w/their Treatment Action Group Blend. For every bag of this ethically sourced coffee, Vivid will donate $5 to support our mission. Support TAG while fueling your response to enact some good trouble. Thank you Vivid! vividcoffee.com/shop/tag
March 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Vivid Coffee is helping get us through this week w/their Treatment Action Group Blend. For every bag of this ethically sourced coffee, Vivid will donate $5 to support our mission. Support TAG while fueling your response to enact some good trouble. Thank you Vivid! vividcoffee.com/shop/tag
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www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/meas... Sure wished we had HHS focused on increasing vaccination coverage to control this outbreak instead of saying it is “normal” and pushing bogus strategies.
Measles cases top 350 in Texas-New Mexico measles outbreak
www.cidrap.umn.edu
March 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/meas... Sure wished we had HHS focused on increasing vaccination coverage to control this outbreak instead of saying it is “normal” and pushing bogus strategies.
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We are entering a dangerous phase of the H5N1 outbreak.
With spring migration underway, the virus will spread faster, threatening wildlife, livestock, and humans.
Migratory birds will carry the D1.1 (D701N) variant worldwide, raising the risk of mammal outbreaks.
With spring migration underway, the virus will spread faster, threatening wildlife, livestock, and humans.
Migratory birds will carry the D1.1 (D701N) variant worldwide, raising the risk of mammal outbreaks.
March 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
We are entering a dangerous phase of the H5N1 outbreak.
With spring migration underway, the virus will spread faster, threatening wildlife, livestock, and humans.
Migratory birds will carry the D1.1 (D701N) variant worldwide, raising the risk of mammal outbreaks.
With spring migration underway, the virus will spread faster, threatening wildlife, livestock, and humans.
Migratory birds will carry the D1.1 (D701N) variant worldwide, raising the risk of mammal outbreaks.
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#CROI2025 is winding to a close. @EmoryUniversity finished strong with 12 posters. Congrats to all who presented this week, esp. Emory's CROI New Investigator Scholarship Awardees - Tehillah Chinunga, Kamaria Dansby, Jairo Fonseca, Felipe Ten-Caten, Ashvini Vaidya, & Simon Yang!
March 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
#CROI2025 is winding to a close. @EmoryUniversity finished strong with 12 posters. Congrats to all who presented this week, esp. Emory's CROI New Investigator Scholarship Awardees - Tehillah Chinunga, Kamaria Dansby, Jairo Fonseca, Felipe Ten-Caten, Ashvini Vaidya, & Simon Yang!
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JUST IN: Heavily Mutated SARS-CoV-2 BA.3 Variant Detected in South Africa with 57 Spike Mutations.
March 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
JUST IN: Heavily Mutated SARS-CoV-2 BA.3 Variant Detected in South Africa with 57 Spike Mutations.
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📢 New study on causes of maternal death:
Severe bleeding (haemorrhage) and hypertensive disorders like preeclampsia are the leading causes of maternal deaths, together claiming around 130,000 lives worldwide in 2020.
bit.ly/43AzEvM
Severe bleeding (haemorrhage) and hypertensive disorders like preeclampsia are the leading causes of maternal deaths, together claiming around 130,000 lives worldwide in 2020.
bit.ly/43AzEvM
March 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
📢 New study on causes of maternal death:
Severe bleeding (haemorrhage) and hypertensive disorders like preeclampsia are the leading causes of maternal deaths, together claiming around 130,000 lives worldwide in 2020.
bit.ly/43AzEvM
Severe bleeding (haemorrhage) and hypertensive disorders like preeclampsia are the leading causes of maternal deaths, together claiming around 130,000 lives worldwide in 2020.
bit.ly/43AzEvM
Everjoice Win (EJ) is gone, and I feel empty. Rest easy, my sister.
Condolences for women rights activist EJ pour in–https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200039330/condolences-for-women-rights-activist-ej-pour-in
Condolences for women rights activist EJ pour in–https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200039330/condolences-for-women-rights-activist-ej-pour-in
March 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Everjoice Win (EJ) is gone, and I feel empty. Rest easy, my sister.
Condolences for women rights activist EJ pour in–https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200039330/condolences-for-women-rights-activist-ej-pour-in
Condolences for women rights activist EJ pour in–https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200039330/condolences-for-women-rights-activist-ej-pour-in
Today is #InternationalWomensDay
Progress on #GenderEquality in health care is too slow.
Women have distinct & changing health needs at different stages of their lives. Health care should be easy to access, fair & tailored to meet each woman’s unique needs & circumstances.
🔗 bit.ly/3DmZQ2o
Progress on #GenderEquality in health care is too slow.
Women have distinct & changing health needs at different stages of their lives. Health care should be easy to access, fair & tailored to meet each woman’s unique needs & circumstances.
🔗 bit.ly/3DmZQ2o
March 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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#USAID Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid.
We will never forget this cruelty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...
We will never forget this cruelty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...
U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid
The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
#USAID Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid.
We will never forget this cruelty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...
We will never forget this cruelty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...
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"Together with SMART4TB, the BETTER project had published a clinical field guide for how to treat people living with TB who had “expanded drug resistance” – meaning they had TB which is resistant to some of the new TB drugs like BDQ, CFZ, DLM, LZD, and Pa."
www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/03/04/m...
www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/03/04/m...
Massive $200 million TB research programme derailed by US funding cuts
Just over a month after US President Donald Trump implemented a 90-day freeze of all foreign assistance, the future looks very uncertain for tuberculosis research. Among others, a large TB research pr...
www.spotlightnsp.co.za
March 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"Together with SMART4TB, the BETTER project had published a clinical field guide for how to treat people living with TB who had “expanded drug resistance” – meaning they had TB which is resistant to some of the new TB drugs like BDQ, CFZ, DLM, LZD, and Pa."
www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/03/04/m...
www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/03/04/m...
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Did you know? 1 in 8 people worldwide are living with obesity.
#Obesity can lead to serious health conditions like type 2 diabetes, hypertension & cardiovascular diseases.
Learn how to prevent obesity 🔗 bit.ly/3SAcdeE
#WorldObesityDay
#Obesity can lead to serious health conditions like type 2 diabetes, hypertension & cardiovascular diseases.
Learn how to prevent obesity 🔗 bit.ly/3SAcdeE
#WorldObesityDay
March 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Did you know? 1 in 8 people worldwide are living with obesity.
#Obesity can lead to serious health conditions like type 2 diabetes, hypertension & cardiovascular diseases.
Learn how to prevent obesity 🔗 bit.ly/3SAcdeE
#WorldObesityDay
#Obesity can lead to serious health conditions like type 2 diabetes, hypertension & cardiovascular diseases.
Learn how to prevent obesity 🔗 bit.ly/3SAcdeE
#WorldObesityDay
Obstetric violence—defined as mistreatment & abuse during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care—is an under-recognized form of GBV that disproportionately affects pregnant children & teenage mothers in Zimbabwe.
healthtimes.co.zw/2025/03/03/o...
healthtimes.co.zw/2025/03/03/o...
Obstetric Violence: A sinister form of GBV against pregnant children | HealthTimes
By Chipo Tsitsi Mlambo
healthtimes.co.zw
March 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Obstetric violence—defined as mistreatment & abuse during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care—is an under-recognized form of GBV that disproportionately affects pregnant children & teenage mothers in Zimbabwe.
healthtimes.co.zw/2025/03/03/o...
healthtimes.co.zw/2025/03/03/o...
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BREAKING: Measles Case Confirmed in Traveler at Kansai International Airport, Japan Exposure Risk Alert Issued.
March 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
BREAKING: Measles Case Confirmed in Traveler at Kansai International Airport, Japan Exposure Risk Alert Issued.
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BREAKING: Uganda Confirms Second Ebola Death as Young Child Succumbs to Virus Amid Ongoing Outbreak.
March 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
BREAKING: Uganda Confirms Second Ebola Death as Young Child Succumbs to Virus Amid Ongoing Outbreak.