At #Union2025 Tapiwa Kujinga and the Diagnostics Equity Consortium (DEC) calls for doubling the number of #TB tests performed by 2030 and rapid rollout of innovative near point-of-care TB tests. DEC is hosted by the @ghpp.georgetown.edu and PATAM.

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New @nytimes.com article shows US blocking basic public-health terms including equity, UHC and references to WHO during G20 Health Minister meetings.

Our director @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social told NYT these principles aren’t controversial - they’re essential for global health cooperation.

Ahead of the #G20 Health Ministers Meeting, leaders receive Breaking the Inequality–Pandemic Cycle, a landmark report from the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS & Pandemics.

🎥 @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social on how inequality fuels deadlier, costlier pandemics.

Full report ↓
#GlobalHealth #UNAIDS

@ghpp-georgetown.bsky.social Senior Scholar @drtlaleng.bsky.social presented her report “Health and care workers and the right to health” at the UN General Assembly— calling for peace, accountability, and protection for health workers everywhere.

📖 Read the report here: docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/48

The Georgetown University Center for Global Health Policy & Politics (GHPP) is is now live on Bluesky, LinkedIn🌍

Follow us for the latest analysis research and commentary on the intersection of politics and global health.

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Save the Children reports that Israel has killed more than 20,000 Palestinian children over the past 23 months — this means at least one Palestinian child has been killed every hour on average by Israeli forces.

MUST READ | As delegates convene at the SA AIDS Conference, they must publicly call out the demand for price secrecy from Gilead and the Global Fund for what it is: bullying, write Fatima Hassan, Leena Menghaney, and Bellinda Nkoana.

www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/09/09/a...

Human rights are key to pandemic response, but today face major headwinds. Join me & @drtlaleng.bsky.social on Sept 8 for a discussion the right to health in the face of pandemics amidst today's geopolitics @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @gtownsoh.bsky.social
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This is a moral crisis. A created famine in 2025.

Want to change the way your country addresses Advanced HIV Disease? Start with the facts.
The CD4 Monitoring Fact Sheet gives you the evidence you need to understand the crisis, explain it to others, and advocate for stronger national responses.

📥 Download now: tinyurl.com/CD4testing

@theipcinfo.bsky.social warns: the worst-case scenario of #famine is unfolding in #Gaza.

Mass starvation, malnutrition, and disease are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths.

@who.int calls for urgent access for food and medical aid into Gaza at scale.

Ceasefire.
Peace is the best medicine!

Authored by @sharonannlynch.bsky.social, @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social, ‪‪@linda-gailb.bsky.social‬, ‪@rmcohen72.bsky.social‬, Yogan Pillay, Yvette Raphael, & Agrata Sharma the 10-point framework to accelerate access, even at a time of drastic funding cuts & threats to the gains of the past 25 years.

Our piece in @thelancet.com sets out a 10-point framework for catalysing equitable access to lenacapavir, built on difficult lessons of HIV treatment and PrEP scale-up and the realities of reduced global funding. Led by @sharonannlynch.bsky.social they include.. 🧵
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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'The Road to Long-Acting Antiretroviral Therapy'

Thursday 17 April
3-4:30pm SAST & CET

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Great thread by Matt K on the Trump Executive Order on South Africa.

CSPAN cut the feed after the press conference but the members of Congress and Senators have entered the main lobby where USAID HQ is located. The door is being blocked by law enforcement.

Photo provided to me:

Just landed in bluesky. first time on any social media since #thathappened. next step in facing #newreality is reading the news, but tbh, i'm not ready. can barely face it.

thanks to @mbarber.bsky.social for setting up the A2M pack.