Bernie Aryeetey
@berniearyeetey.bsky.social
Dad & Chief Cabbie. Policy, advocacy & comms for global health. #LFC. Mainly in that order.
https://www.path.org/who-we-are/programs/advocacy-and-policy/
https://www.path.org/who-we-are/programs/advocacy-and-policy/
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De La Soul Reflect on Life Without Trugoy youtu.be/VyROQRhDiAs?...
De La Soul Reflect on Life Without Trugoy
YouTube video by Juan Ep Is Life
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November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
De La Soul Reflect on Life Without Trugoy youtu.be/VyROQRhDiAs?...
At #UNGA80, global leaders will re-commit to addressing NCDs & mental health. I’m excited to take part in this high-level side event to translate political commitment into practical action for NCD prevention and care. Stay tuned for the post-event recap!
#ActOnNCDs
#ActOnNCDs
September 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
At #UNGA80, global leaders will re-commit to addressing NCDs & mental health. I’m excited to take part in this high-level side event to translate political commitment into practical action for NCD prevention and care. Stay tuned for the post-event recap!
#ActOnNCDs
#ActOnNCDs
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“By retracting foreign aid, President Trump could make tuberculosis untreatable again”
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get Worse
By retracting foreign aid, President Trump could make tuberculosis untreatable again.
www.theatlantic.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
“By retracting foreign aid, President Trump could make tuberculosis untreatable again”
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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A handful of Republican senators have joined their Democratic colleagues in expressing alarm over the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze and gutting of USAID.
Behind the scenes, GOP senators challenge legality of Trump’s aid cuts
A handful of Republican senators, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, joined Democrats to quietly express alarm about how President Trump is freezing foreign aid
www.washingtonpost.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A handful of Republican senators have joined their Democratic colleagues in expressing alarm over the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze and gutting of USAID.
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Frustratingly, I once again hear folks in the econ-adjacent, 'aid reform' camp going soft on PEPFAR -- ready to jetisson billions in life-saving HIV aid to get peanuts for innovation, incubator funds and the like.
PEPFAR works. We're winning the war on AIDS. Hold the line.
PEPFAR works. We're winning the war on AIDS. Hold the line.
In the wake of the turmoil around PEPFAR funding, we're re-reading @justsand.bsky.social's piece on how economists got Africa's AIDS epidemic wrong - and why it's so important that it continues
asteriskmag.com/issues/05/pe...
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PEPFAR and the Costs of Cost-Benefit Analysis—Asterisk
In the early aughts, economists said it was a bad use of money to send antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV in low-income countries. Twenty years later, we can ask why they got it wrong.
asteriskmag.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Frustratingly, I once again hear folks in the econ-adjacent, 'aid reform' camp going soft on PEPFAR -- ready to jetisson billions in life-saving HIV aid to get peanuts for innovation, incubator funds and the like.
PEPFAR works. We're winning the war on AIDS. Hold the line.
PEPFAR works. We're winning the war on AIDS. Hold the line.
Some hard-hitting reporting from @stephanienolen.bsky.social about the life-saving US aid programmes frozen this week www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Some hard-hitting reporting from @stephanienolen.bsky.social about the life-saving US aid programmes frozen this week www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
By cutting off assistance to foreigners, America hurts itself
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
from The Economist
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
from The Economist
By cutting off assistance to foreigners, America hurts itself
Donald Trump’s chaotic aid freeze makes his country weaker
www.economist.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
By cutting off assistance to foreigners, America hurts itself
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
from The Economist
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
from The Economist
Great piece from @petersinger.bsky.social on the life-saving potential of expanding access to GLP-1 drugs at an affordable price in LMICs - especially for people with obesity and/or diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Also need to 📈 taxes on sugary drinks
Hope 🇿🇦 and #G20 are listening. #NCDs
Also need to 📈 taxes on sugary drinks
Hope 🇿🇦 and #G20 are listening. #NCDs
Check out my op-ed on global access to GLP1s 👇🏻
How to save a million lives a year – make the new obesity drugs available to the developing world
Strong op-ed from @petersinger.bsky.social arguing that the new GLP1 drugs should be made more widely available
Free to read and share ⤵️⤵️
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Strong op-ed from @petersinger.bsky.social arguing that the new GLP1 drugs should be made more widely available
Free to read and share ⤵️⤵️
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
December 6, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Great piece from @petersinger.bsky.social on the life-saving potential of expanding access to GLP-1 drugs at an affordable price in LMICs - especially for people with obesity and/or diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Also need to 📈 taxes on sugary drinks
Hope 🇿🇦 and #G20 are listening. #NCDs
Also need to 📈 taxes on sugary drinks
Hope 🇿🇦 and #G20 are listening. #NCDs
My plan tonight was LFC v Real Madrid. My better half had other ideas. From why Trump won, to political education of young people, & lack of narrative among progressives, it was a great conversation between @juliagillard.bsky.social & @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social. Thanks @giwlkings.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 7:53 PM
My plan tonight was LFC v Real Madrid. My better half had other ideas. From why Trump won, to political education of young people, & lack of narrative among progressives, it was a great conversation between @juliagillard.bsky.social & @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social. Thanks @giwlkings.bsky.social
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Worldwide health R&D spending is $69bn. Know how much of that goes to contraceptives? $129m or 0.18%. Only $13m in total, everywhere in the world, goes to developing contraception for men policy-cures-website-assets.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/u...
November 25, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Worldwide health R&D spending is $69bn. Know how much of that goes to contraceptives? $129m or 0.18%. Only $13m in total, everywhere in the world, goes to developing contraception for men policy-cures-website-assets.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/u...
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Excellent thread
A working paper prepared for our new Lancet Commission on Investing in Health estimates a >20% chance of a pandemic of COVID-like magnitude in the next 10 years
We estimate there were 23 million excess deaths during emergency phase of COVID, almost all attributable to COVID
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A working paper prepared for our new Lancet Commission on Investing in Health estimates a >20% chance of a pandemic of COVID-like magnitude in the next 10 years
We estimate there were 23 million excess deaths during emergency phase of COVID, almost all attributable to COVID
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November 25, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Excellent thread
A working paper prepared for our new Lancet Commission on Investing in Health estimates a >20% chance of a pandemic of COVID-like magnitude in the next 10 years
We estimate there were 23 million excess deaths during emergency phase of COVID, almost all attributable to COVID
1/2
A working paper prepared for our new Lancet Commission on Investing in Health estimates a >20% chance of a pandemic of COVID-like magnitude in the next 10 years
We estimate there were 23 million excess deaths during emergency phase of COVID, almost all attributable to COVID
1/2
Kids have me on cabbie duty this evening, but #Spotify knew exactly what I needed:
1. Communards & Sarah Jane Morris -
Don’t leave me this way
2. Soul to Soul - Back to life
3. Black Box - Ride on Time
4. Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam
5. The Source feat Candi Station - You got the love
1. Communards & Sarah Jane Morris -
Don’t leave me this way
2. Soul to Soul - Back to life
3. Black Box - Ride on Time
4. Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam
5. The Source feat Candi Station - You got the love
November 22, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Kids have me on cabbie duty this evening, but #Spotify knew exactly what I needed:
1. Communards & Sarah Jane Morris -
Don’t leave me this way
2. Soul to Soul - Back to life
3. Black Box - Ride on Time
4. Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam
5. The Source feat Candi Station - You got the love
1. Communards & Sarah Jane Morris -
Don’t leave me this way
2. Soul to Soul - Back to life
3. Black Box - Ride on Time
4. Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam
5. The Source feat Candi Station - You got the love
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As COP29 concludes, Al Jazeera examines the 359 million weather-related displacements recorded worldwide since 2008 ⤵️
Mapping the impact of climate change on global displacement
As COP29 concludes, Al Jazeera examines the 359 million weather-related displacements recorded worldwide since 2008.
www.aljazeera.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:21 AM
As COP29 concludes, Al Jazeera examines the 359 million weather-related displacements recorded worldwide since 2008 ⤵️
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Next up in our glorious FT annual round-up of the best books of the year: Martin Wolf shares his selection of must-reads from the world of economics. Lots of other goodies - from tech to crime - with more to come. And then all brought together print on Saturday. Dive in!
Ft.com/booksoftheyear2024
Ft.com/booksoftheyear2024
The FT’s guide to the Books of the Year
From economics, politics and history to science, art, food and, of course, fiction — our annual round-up brings you top titles picked by FT writers and critics
Ft.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Next up in our glorious FT annual round-up of the best books of the year: Martin Wolf shares his selection of must-reads from the world of economics. Lots of other goodies - from tech to crime - with more to come. And then all brought together print on Saturday. Dive in!
Ft.com/booksoftheyear2024
Ft.com/booksoftheyear2024
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Breaking News: Percival Everett won the National Book Award for fiction for “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
Percival Everett, Author of ‘James,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction
Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.”
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:40 AM
Breaking News: Percival Everett won the National Book Award for fiction for “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”