Julia Zigman
@j-zig.bsky.social
JZ. HIV / public health professional and advocate from the Midwest, currently based in DC. Figuring out how to use Bluesky while maintaining my sanity.
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for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan
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Q: Why should one of the wealthiest drug companies in the world be allowed to keep the price it’s charging a major global health institution for a lifesaving HIV prevention shot that’s about 100% effective, a secret? healthgap.org/press/gilead...
A: they shouldn’t
A: they shouldn’t
Gilead Imposes Price Secrecy on Global Fund Over Breakthrough HIV Prevention Shot, Blocking Transparency and Accountability
PRESS STATEMENTFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 9 2025Contact for more information: Asia Russell | +1 267 475 2645 asia@healthgap.org Susana van der Ploeg | +55 32 9921-7496 susanaploeg@abiaids.org.brGilea...
healthgap.org
July 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Q: Why should one of the wealthiest drug companies in the world be allowed to keep the price it’s charging a major global health institution for a lifesaving HIV prevention shot that’s about 100% effective, a secret? healthgap.org/press/gilead...
A: they shouldn’t
A: they shouldn’t
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I told Congress they're killing poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs, and they're paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US. This was the authorities' response:
May 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I told Congress they're killing poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs, and they're paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US. This was the authorities' response:
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any news outlet that treats the HHS “review” on trans care like anything other than a politically motivated document is manipulating anti trans sentiment for clicks
they aren’t even making the authors of their “review” public
and it was ordered up by fiat, definitionally a political document
they aren’t even making the authors of their “review” public
and it was ordered up by fiat, definitionally a political document
May 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
any news outlet that treats the HHS “review” on trans care like anything other than a politically motivated document is manipulating anti trans sentiment for clicks
they aren’t even making the authors of their “review” public
and it was ordered up by fiat, definitionally a political document
they aren’t even making the authors of their “review” public
and it was ordered up by fiat, definitionally a political document
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A scientific review is meant to be unbiased and provide a review of the literature without pre-conceived notions. This, is precisely the opposite of that. This is not science, this is propaganda
May 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A scientific review is meant to be unbiased and provide a review of the literature without pre-conceived notions. This, is precisely the opposite of that. This is not science, this is propaganda
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increasingly concerned about the push to label trans identity as an illegal form of fraud
Texas bill would charge transgender people with ‘fraud’
Transgender Texans could be charged with fraud under state legislation filed this month that seeks to make publicly identifying as trans illegal. House Bill 3817, introduced last week by Repu…
thehill.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
increasingly concerned about the push to label trans identity as an illegal form of fraud
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"knowledge institutions are often an early target of autocratic regimes" because "authoritarians demand the right to define what is true"
I wrote about why American science is under attack. TLDR: it's because authoritarians demand the power to define what is true, and the entire project of empirical study is a threat to that power.
www.brookings.edu/articles/pop...
www.brookings.edu/articles/pop...
March 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"knowledge institutions are often an early target of autocratic regimes" because "authoritarians demand the right to define what is true"
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The purpose of the deportations we have been seeing has not been to fight antisemitism, but rather to use antisemitism as a beachhead to eventually do away with foreign students altogether, using Jews as a pretext for a non-Jewish political agenda.
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is discussing plans to try to block certain colleges from having any foreign students if it decides too many are "pro-Hamas," senior Justice and State Department officials tell Axios.
Exclusive: Trump's "pro-Hamas" purge could block foreign students from colleges
The planned purge is another escalation of Trump's aggressive crackdown on immigration and antisemitism that civil libertarians say stifles campus speech.
www.axios.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The purpose of the deportations we have been seeing has not been to fight antisemitism, but rather to use antisemitism as a beachhead to eventually do away with foreign students altogether, using Jews as a pretext for a non-Jewish political agenda.
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Strong words from my brilliant colleague @anuhazramd.bsky.social concerning the NIH HIV cuts. Read the whole article here #SaveHIVFunding #HIVSky #IDSky @hivma.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/h...
March 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Strong words from my brilliant colleague @anuhazramd.bsky.social concerning the NIH HIV cuts. Read the whole article here #SaveHIVFunding #HIVSky #IDSky @hivma.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/h...
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let’s skip the “haha funny” reaction and get to the substantive point:
he is using the term “collusively” on purpose, because there is an ongoing effort to get the courts and regulators to label ESG activism and sustainable investment practices as illegal market collusion
he is using the term “collusively” on purpose, because there is an ongoing effort to get the courts and regulators to label ESG activism and sustainable investment practices as illegal market collusion
March 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
let’s skip the “haha funny” reaction and get to the substantive point:
he is using the term “collusively” on purpose, because there is an ongoing effort to get the courts and regulators to label ESG activism and sustainable investment practices as illegal market collusion
he is using the term “collusively” on purpose, because there is an ongoing effort to get the courts and regulators to label ESG activism and sustainable investment practices as illegal market collusion
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Mar 10 is National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, so it’s appropriate the 69th Commission on the Status of Women in beginning today at the U.N. In this quote, De’Ashia Lee ANEA Coalition Director, explains how HIV equity and reproductive justice are connected. #NWGHAAD #OWH #25to44
March 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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history doesn’t rhyme but it echoes all through time
Per a source, recipients of CDC grants received a questionnaire (maybe from OMB) today with some "absolutely nuts" questions.
"Can you confirm that your org does not work with entities associated with communist, socialist, or totalitarian parties, or any party that espouses anti-American beliefs?"
"Can you confirm that your org does not work with entities associated with communist, socialist, or totalitarian parties, or any party that espouses anti-American beliefs?"
March 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
history doesn’t rhyme but it echoes all through time
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These people are committing crimes against humanity.
Remember when the WH insisted that global HIV prevention & treatment was exempt from the freeze? When it seemed MAYBE they understood that cutting off medicine could put the entire planet at risk of drug resistant HIV strains?
Wrong. Elon Musk’s interns were simply shutting payments off manually.
Wrong. Elon Musk’s interns were simply shutting payments off manually.
February 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
These people are committing crimes against humanity.