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Aasith Paz
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Infectious Diseases Doc 🦠 | Health tech enthusiast
HPV vaccination, women’s health & health equity
📍Miami
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I don't know what else to say here except we're desperate. Abel is an LGBTQ refugee in south Sudan and an activist. He has an emergency - testicular torsion. He's in agony, and surgery is only available privately. If you've anything at all, please donate to his GoFundMe 🙏 gofund.me/f85a64e6
Donate to Medical Help Needed Urgently, organized by Jo Gattenberg
Hi, my name is Kabanda Abel, and I’m a 26-year-old LGBTQ refugee and activist. I’m reaching… Jo Gattenberg needs your support for Medical Help Needed Urgently
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February 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Your voice as an infectious diseases professional is crucial to ensuring ID and HIV remain a priority in health policy. By joining our member advocacy program, you can make a direct impact and help ensure our field is heard in Congress. Sign up and take action 👇

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Ensure Your Voice is Heard | IDSA & HIVMA
Congress needs to hear from you about the role that federal programs, policies and funding play in supporting local, federal and global efforts to track, prevent, diagnose and treat infectious disease...
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November 19, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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Healthcare Advocacy for Undocumented Individuals: A toolkit for how healthcare professional scan improve access and quality for (and with) undocumented patients - by DFA

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February 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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If you're worried about vaccine availability moving forward talk to your pediatricians. While there is a routine schedule, there is flexibility.
For example Gardasil is usually given at 11 but can be dosed as early as 9.
MMR is given at 12 and 48 months but dose 2 can be given earlier.
February 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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On a day like this, it’s important to say THANK YOU to all the science and public health communicators for all you do. Your work will be even more critical in the coming years. Keep going! You are very much needed and appreciated. ❤️
February 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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After hearing from two of my colleagues in Africa who work with USAID/PEPFAR, and the consequences already of recent events, I had to write this.

So sad. And so pointless! #IDSky

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Could This Be the End of PEPFAR?
Short email from a longtime colleague, working in Africa at a PEPFAR site: Without USAID, PEPFAR is essentially dead. I got chills reading this. PEPFAR, the abbreviation for the President’s Emergency ...
blogs.jwatch.org
February 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Global health partnerships help combat AMR by strengthening antimicrobial stewardship and education, as seen in a Zambia-UK collaboration training pharmacy champions and improving prescribing practices.

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Global health partnerships are essential for tackling antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is recognised as one of the most significant global threats to public health. In 2021, it was estimated that there were 4.7 million deaths associated with bacterial AMR,...
pharmaceutical-journal.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM