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AliciaDWright

@aliciadwright.bsky.social
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Program Manager ID/TB/HIV/Cancer/Rare Diseases, US & International Research Projects 💃🏽🐶🐈‍⬛📸🌳🌹🌅☕️🍷📖✍🏼💻🩻🇲🇽🇺🇸

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Como dirían Los Ángeles Azules con Natalia Lafourcade: “Nunca es suficiente para mi…” 🤗😋💚🤍❤️🍲
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
😔👇🏼💔 “Establishing priority areas that don’t include international collaborations or don’t include work focused on diseases of poor countries seems to be aligned with what we’re hearing in terms of government funding priorities,”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
📜1st Amendment protects 5 core freedoms: Speech, Press, Religion, Right to peaceably assemble & Right to petition the government. 🙋🏻‍♀️My petition to Rep🤥Harris: Stop lying with pathetic excuses and at least have the courage(🙄🥚🥚) to respond to WE the people about your corruption and incompetence.
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Billy Crystal: Please Cry Quietly
ALT: Billy Crystal: Please Cry Quietly
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
🇨🇦✍🏼 “her death was a loss for everyone who cares about health and medicine… And when a new development occurred she had it — usually first — and with precision, accuracy and context."
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
From Now: A Legend 🙌🏼🤟🏼💙 Take note 👇🏼 She is from Auburn NY, about 30 minutes outside of Syracuse and she volunteers at Auburn Community-Cats. auburncats.org *Some MAGA reported the TNR GoFundMe account and it’s down. Only Venmo working. #CatLady 🐈‍⬛ 🫡R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
‼️🔎 “Universal social protection is essential to ending #tuberculosis (TB). People with TB often face substantial health-related expenses, loss of income and other socioeconomic consequences that can push households further into poverty and undermine access to and completion of care.”
who.int
Universal social protection inclusive of people with tuberculosis: monitoring and evaluation framework
This monitoring and evaluation framework complements the Guidance on social protection for people affected by tuberculosis. It provides countries with a practical approach to measuring progress toward...
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
4% of people who live with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa develop tuberculosis (TB) each year - and it remains a major cause of death. TB preventive treatment reduced the risk of developing active TB by 61% in people starting HIV treatment. www.aidsmap.com/news/oct-202...
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
❣️👧🏽👧🏼👧🏾 🗓️📌 #InternationalDayoftheGirlChild “Every girl deserves a childhood. Every #girl deserves the freedom to learn, to grow, to make her own choices and to define her own future. Yet millions of girls are still denied that freedom.“ ‼️URGENT action to end child marriage and invest in girls’ rights
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International Day of the Girl Child | United Nations
The International Day of the Girl Child focuses attention on the need to address the challenges girls face and to promote girls’ empowerment and the fulfilment of their human rights.
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Indeed it does. Nothing’s changed, either. *Everything* I wrote about this study last December still applies to it. sciencebasedmedicine.org/every-accusa...
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Every accusation is a confession (or a statement of intent): MAHA’s new Tuskegee experiment
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s CDC just funneled a $1.6 million dollar grant to researchers to carry out an unethical and scientifically unjustified randomized clinical trial of the birth dose o
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Happy #Caturday 😺 #Cats 🐈 🐈‍⬛ around the 🌎 world #adopt #PetsAreFamily 🙋🏻‍♀️💜📸🙀 1.🇮🇳 2.🇲🇽 3.🇩🇰 4.🇧🇷
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When members of the IRB that reviewed a study are resigning in protest because they recognize the unethical design of the study and the avoidable harm it will cause, maybe it is a sign to no proceed with said study. Great reporting in the guardian. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Dude!
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Climate crisis is coming to crush many of world’s best surf breaks, study warns
Changing tide levels, shifting sands and hardened shorelines put waves at risk, affecting more than just surfers
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🇮🇳👟📸🌺⛲️🥰☀️🥵
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🆘🚨”The future of four large research networks that test vaccines and treatments for HIV, #tuberculosis and emerging infectious diseases is in limbo” “It’s hard work and it’s very fragile…What took 40 years to build on here could just collapse in a minute without continued investment and commitment.”
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Medios Digitales del Sur @mediosdigitalessur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Una herramienta agiliza la atención de niños con VIH y posible tuberculosis
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Una herramienta agiliza la atención de niños con VIH y posible tuberculosis
Un estudio en cuatro países africanos validó el algoritmo PAANTHER en 277 pacientes pediátricos; entre quienes iniciaron tratamiento, la mediana de espera fue de un día. Redacción: Redacción Mundo de la SaludEditor: Eduardo Schmitz Un equipo internacional coordinado por la Universidad de Burdeos, en Francia, validó una herramienta para ayudar a decidir cuándo iniciar el […]
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
RePORT 2026 Annual Meeting Mumbai, India 🇮🇳🪷 #Tubercolosis 🥊
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🇮🇳🪷👟📸🐒🐒
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
‼️”The biggest prize for nature recovery would be a sustainable and healthy food system, but it’s currently the farthest away from positively tipping. For example, agricultural expansion drives almost 90% of deforestation worldwide.”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
⏳🧐"these findings raise the issue of their applicability to understanding human social behavior & its transmission...present data suggest that demographic skews may have long-term,even multigenerational consequences,including significant changes in the qualityof life in a social group" #Tuberculosis
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🐀🐁”in2025,more than 2500 #Tuberculosis cases that were missed by health facilities in Tanzania were identified by HeroRats.Without the rats, these patients might not have been treated.And the detection helped stop the disease from spreading…”These guys are called hero rats for a lot of good reasons”
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David mogeladze @davidmogeladze.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
bioengineer.org/as-immunity-...
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As Immunity Falls, Tuberculosis in HIV Wears a Different Face on the Chest
A cross-sectional study of adults with advanced HIV disease in southern Vietnam shows that as CD4 counts fall, pulmonary tuberculosis shifts from classic cavitary lung disease to atypical ground-glass
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
✈️🧳🇮🇳🪷😍🌴☀️🥵
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Nature [Unofficial] @nature.com.web.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
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Tuberculosis treatment has advanced — now we need to stop drug resistance dragging us backwards
Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02963-x The next major advancement in TB might not be a new drug, but a better understanding of how and why resistance to medicines emerges.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Aedes aegypti
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🇻🇪”The Silent Aftershock: Preventing #Tuberculosis Transmission and Treatment Interruption in Venezuela’s Post-Earthquake Shelters” ‼️🔎”TB is not expected to surge within days because of the earthquake itself. Yet disasters can disrupt every layer of TB control: early diagnosis, treatment…”
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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🤔Why do we need a new vaccine for TB? 👶The one vaccine currently licensed is over 100 years old, and while it is effective in protecting infants and young children against severe forms of the disease, its protection wanes as the patient gets older. The new vaccines fill the gap.
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New “blockbuster” tuberculosis vaccines could save seven million lives by 2050
Next-generation TB vaccines, expected to become available from 2029, could deliver major health and economic gains, helping to save an estimated 7.3 million lives, generate up to US$ 135 billion in ec...
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🔎 “Effectiveness of Isoniazid Preventive Treatment among Contacts of Multidrug-Resistant #Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review and Individual-Participant Meta-Analysis”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🇦🇺”Earlier diagnosis, culturally responsive and community-led approaches, strengthened Aboriginal health workforces and action on social and structural determinants are needed to ensure #Tuberculosis is addressed rather than forgotten in Australia.”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🔎”Safety of #tuberculosis preventive treatment among people receiving or about to initiate immunosuppressive medications: a systematic review and meta-analysis”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
👟🐶🐾📸🦆🧘🏻‍♀️
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s Friday 🙌🏼 ☺️🍷🎶🎹🎤
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Elton Jhon & Lady Gaga- Benny and The Jets - Lady Gaga & the Muppets'
YouTube video by TraduccionMonsters
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Amesh Adalja @ameshaa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“According to an analysis by Partners in Health, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is withholding $1.35 billion in bilateral funding that was previously approved by Congress for tuberculosis (TB), malaria, HIV..” www.cidrap.umn.edu/hivaids/advo...
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Advocates, lawmakers call for release of congressionally approved global health funds
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🤐I will let the experts to review👇 FDA Launches Expedited IND Pilot, Begins Accepting Applications Application open until 30-OCT-2026 The FDA’s Expedited IND Pilot webpage 🔗⤵️ www.fda.gov/industry/fda...
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FDA Launches Expedited IND Pilot, Begins Accepting Applications
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the final design of the Expedited Investigational New Drug (IND) Pilot.
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🇲🇽Viva Mexico!!!! 🎉🪅🎶🎺🎻🪉💃🏻
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 13/09/2026
Another year full of climate extremes... Did you know the last 100 days have all set new daily records for global sea surface temperatures? Learn more about our rapidly warming oceans in our webinar this week, & bring your questions! 📣 Register in advance: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sometimes we just need Barry White🤗 When life is too stressful, Just breathe and dance 💃🏽🪩 Good night 🎶🍷
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Barry White - Cant Get Enough Of You Love Babe (Remix)
YouTube video by Marco Bitencourt
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
👟🐶🐾🌤️🦆 Just loving 🧡Sunsets 🤗📸
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
👟🐶🐾🌤️🦆🧡Sunsets 🤗
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TAGHIVscience @taghivscience.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Information now posted and open for public comment: www.niaid.nih.gov/about/niaid-...
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Public Hearing of NIAID Proposed Reorganization
BackgroundThe National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), conducts and supports biomedical research to better understand, treat, and...
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🔎”…but if we want new ideas rather than rehashed versions of old ones we need to turn away from the narcissistic seductions of the infinite customisation offered by chatbots…we must use AI critically, not blindly. But to accomplish this, we must also think critically, not blindly…”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
👉🏻”Real journalism—the rigorous, fair-minded gathering of facts and the public distribution of a coherent narrative—is an antidote to the confusion fostered by today’s information pollution…Trusted journalism matters.That message, like Earth Day’s,is one that deserves attention every day of the year”
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🧐”Westervelt… singles out “the tech bros [who], armed with algorithms and data, take Lee’s quote about facts being open to interpretation and turn it into millions of splintered realities” and thus wage “an information war against their own people.””⤵️
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🤭 There is a well known joke in Mexico with a game of words and double ‘spicy’ sense (Albur): “-Fuiste a Texas?, -No, a ‘Dalas’” 🤓Interpretation: “Did you go to Texas? -No, went to ‘Give them’🍑” Cultural Interpretation: Went to offer myself with no dignity🫥 Pretty accurate 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Salma Hayek: Maybe This Is A Sign
ALT: Salma Hayek: Maybe This Is A Sign
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🆘🚨”…announcing a proposed overhaul of the NIAID clinical research program with few details and a brief comment period. Changes of the magnitude suggested deserve a lengthier and meaningful opportunity for input from researchers,clinicians,community partners,and other stakeholders including Congress”
medpagetoday.com
Docs Alarmed by NIH Plan to Redirect Medical Research $$ to Pentagon
Few details are available on the proposal, which has a 5-day comment period
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m holding my soul to any possibility of justice and common sense, but during these times, my hope is sustained by a thin, very thin branch of a dying tree 🥺😔💔
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Alice Falling Down The Rabbit Hole
ALT: Alice Falling Down The Rabbit Hole
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
🧐🇲🇽 Good time to remember the Hummingbirds = Colibríes in Mexican culture: “pre-Columbian and modern Mexicans to ascribe to the hummingbird, and value in themselves, attributes such as authenticity, braveness, intrepidness, skill, readiness and strength of will.” www.aav.org/news/615010/...
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The Hummingbird in Mexican Culture - Association of Avian Veterinarians
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Here is the full agreement, signed on 8/5/2026. **Curiously this agreement is between the "Department of War and the NIH" but officially, it is still in process to 'legally' approve the change of name from DOD to DoW. It was an executive order, and it is 'moving' but it is not official. 🧐
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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Agreement signed on 8/5/26 “…OASW will award contracts, grants, and other transactions to research and develop therapeutics, diagnostics, and personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect the United States”
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