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Shailly Gupta
@shaillygupta.bsky.social
Senior Communications Advisor, MSF Access Campaign. Avid follower of intellectual property and pro-access news. Believer of #ClaimingRightsNotCharity. Opinions are mine and doesn't represent my employer.
Arm twisting by the US government is going to another extreme by tying funding aid to the condition of pathogen sharing. While this sharing will not be attached to condition to access medical tools that are developed from the pathogen information that countries would share.
EXCLUSIVE: US Ties Global Health Aid To Data Sharing On Pathogens – Undermining WHO Talks - Health Policy Watch
The United States (US) aims to compel countries that receive its aid to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria to share all information about “pathogens with
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November 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
With ‘a Billion’ Eyes on Them, India’s Women Lift Cricket World Cup
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November 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Don’t miss this webinar if you are keen to know why TB in children is a big problem despite advancements in diagnosis and treatment for TB. #IDSky #TBSky
Every child withTB deserves a healthy childhood. Yet in 2023, 1.25M fell ill with TB and nearly half were never diagnosed, thus never treated.

Join our webinar moderated by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social where survivors and treatment providers will discuss how to close these deadly gaps.
October 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Ritshidze, the world’s largest community-led monitoring system, is in jeopardy following the cuts to U.S development aid announced in January.

health-e.org.za/2025/10/23/w...
Who Will Watch The Clinics Now? Ritshidze Forced To Shrink After US Aid Cuts
Drastic measures had to be taken to avoid the total collapse of the community-led monitoring programme.
health-e.org.za
October 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Yet another starting example highlighting that countries and communities continue to suffer as foreign aid depletes, first with US cuts and then by other developed countries. Thanks for your relentless reporting on this topic @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...
A Somali Hospital Closed After U.S. Aid Cuts. Fired Employees Reopened It Without Pay.
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Some good news from India: Apex court reject
Swiss Pharma Roche’s appeal to restrain Indian generics to produce and sell drug for treating spinal muscular atrophy. www.livemint.com/news/india/s...
SC refuses to restrain Natco from selling generic version of Roche's Risdiplam | Today News
Roche sued Natco in early 2024 after learning that the Hyderabad-based company plans to launch a lower-cost generic version of Risdiplam, sold under the brand name Evrysdi.
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October 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Katarzyna Motyka from DG Health Emergency Preparedness and Response (HERA) from European Commission pointed out that J&J refused to engage for joint procurement of bedaquiline stating that there is no access problem in the EU.
October 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
@jaimemanzano.bsky.social quotes @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social book while talking about Access to TB medicines in Spain. @saludporderecho.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
One of the big challenges in accessing TB medications in Europe. #TBSky #IDSky
October 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Joanna Ładormirska from MSF Poland talks about absence of systemic approach to treat TB in Poland
October 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Denis Godlevskiy, TB survivor and ITPC EECA, highlights that it’s sad that how so many TB drugs are not registered in Europe as reflected in the Annex chart of MSF publication. This needs to change!
October 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Getting ready for the webinar now.
October 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Its happening today.
October 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Reposted by Shailly Gupta
New WHO report finds 1 in 6 bacterial infections were resistant to antibiotic treatments.

Data from over 100 countries warns that rising resistance to essential antibiotics poses a growing threat to global health.

Read more 👉bit.ly/438Ta1u
October 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
TB anywhere is TB everywhere. Join us to know the challenges people with TB continue to face in accessing the TB treatment in EU and EEA region. #TBSky #IDSky
September 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The premises on which the US refused to endorse the declaration are beyond absurd - but sadly, not surprising.
September 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Unprecedented!!! The new price lands exactly in the range researchers projected last year ($35–$46/year with 2M doses in demand). A huge win for CSOs & HIV communities who campaigned tirelessly for this 🎉🎉🎉 unitaid.org/news-blog/le...
Unitaid, CHAI, and Wits RHI enter into a landmark agreement with Dr. Reddy’s to make HIV prevention tool lenacapavir affordable in LMICs - Unitaid
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September 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
AIDS is not over; the global AIDS response has been upended in recent months," the UNAIDS statement said, adding much more needed to be done if the world wanted to achieve the goal of ending AIDS by 2030. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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September 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
« The executive summary says that many nongovernmental groups that receive funding approved by Congress, especially for technical assistance and program management, “have perverse incentives to self-perpetuate rather than work towards turning functions over to local governments.” »
U.S. to Cut Out Nongovernmental Groups in Refocusing Health Aid
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Reposted by Shailly Gupta
#LongCOVID is affecting 400M people globally who are often undiagnosed & unsupported. People living with #HIV are 2-4x more likely to develop #LongCOVID. We urgently need research centered on these communities JD Davids tells #SaveAIDSResearch in hour 24. #HIVresearch

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September 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I wish people in the US demand for this drug to be available in pens at the same price as vials as it is possible. Mode of delivery of a drug cant make it few times more expensive. Its just ridiculous.
September 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
US funding cuts impact: Mpox has revealed that the scale of HIV in the country may be far higher than national data suggests. Meanwhile, Trump’s aid cuts left the country scrambling to plug gaps in programmes that has likely hampered the speed of its response, activists have told The Independent.
How an Mpox outbreak revealed an epidemic of untreated HIV in Sierra Leone
The impact of the US slashing foreign aid on the country’s Mpox response has likely been huge, activists on the ground tell Rachel Schraer
www.independent.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Reposted by Shailly Gupta
Why are we so plagued by low self-esteem? “So inexplicable is its grip, so binding its influence, it can feel almost mythic,” Vivian Gornick writes.
Always Inadequate
The force of low self-esteem can feel so enormous, so unexplainable, it seems almost mythic.
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August 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Saturday morning run. Need to get up before sun does next time to get a better picture.
August 17, 2025 at 4:42 AM