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Anastasia Pharris

@anastasiapharris.bsky.social
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🌏🇪🇺Global citizen, mom, nurse, public health professional @ecdc.europa.eu (views here are my own)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/05/2025
THREAD 🧵 Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 23/04/2025
🎯 Sustainable Development Goal 3.3 — Are we there yet? 🌍 The goal: End epidemics of #HIV, #TB, #hepatitis, and other infectious diseases by 2030. ❌ The reality: We’re not on track. Read more in ▪️ our news item ➡️ bit.ly/SDGsIn2025 ▪️ the evidence brief ➡️ bit.ly/4cU0rWQ ▪️ full report ➡️ bit.ly/44oXMST
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Ministerstwo Zdrowia @mzgovpl.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🌍 Dziś w Warszawie trwa spotkanie ekspertów ds. zdrowia publicznego z krajów Unii Europejskiej i Europejskiego Obszaru Gospodarczego. Temat: walka z HIV, gruźlicą, wirusowym zapaleniem wątroby oraz chorobami przenoszonymi drogą płciową.
Zdjęcie z konferencji "Postęp w realizacji SDG 3.3 i pozostałe wyzwania w celu wsparcia p.cz. UE/EOG (MS) w przyspieszeniu postępów w osiąganiu (ECDC)".Zdjęcie z konferencji "Postęp w realizacji SDG 3.3 i pozostałe wyzwania w celu wsparcia p.cz. UE/EOG (MS) w przyspieszeniu postępów w osiąganiu (ECDC)".
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Anastasia Pharris @anastasiapharris.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
➡️ @ecdc.europa.eu report on #SDG3.3 progress in #EU published today shows many areas where #HIV, #Hep, #TB and #STI prevention, testing & treatment must improve. www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...
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Making the next five years count: Europe not on track to reach 2030 Sustainable Development Goal targets on HIV, TB, viral hepatitis B and C and STIs
Although progress has been made towards SDG target 3.3 to end the epidemics of HIV, TB, and combatting viral hepatitis B and C and STIs by 2030, the EU/EEA is off track for many of the targets.
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Anastasia Pharris @anastasiapharris.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
www.bmj.com/content/389/... “Mobilising regional teams at the point of new outbreaks is more cost effective and sustainable than bringing in overseas experts.To accomplish this, Africa needs regional and international funding amounting to less than 1% of the EU’s 2024 military defence investments.”
bmj.com
Filling the funding void would mitigate infectious outbreaks and build resilience in Africa
Action is needed to mitigate disease outbreaks and challenge power imbalances, write Mosoka Papa Fallah and colleagues Countries across Africa are facing more frequent and concurrent infectious dise...
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Anastasia Pharris @anastasiapharris.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#handsoff #stockholm
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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Massive cuts to programs that prevent disease would make Americans sicker. Cutting things isn’t likely to improve them. Actually improving takes expertise and investment.
apnews.com
Layoffs begin at US health agencies responsible for research, tracking disease and regulating food
Employees across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have begun receiving notices of dismissal in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people.
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 01/04/2025
Don't miss our tomorrow's webinar on talking about #SafeSex with young people! There is still time to register ➡ bit.ly/4hInxkM Let's meet tomorrow and talk about things that matter! 📅 Date: 2 April 2025 🕑 Time: 15:00-16:30 CET #STIawareness #STIs #LetsTalkAboutSex #IDsky #EpiSky #SexEd
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KNCV TB Plus | KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation @kncvtbplus.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“…TB could once again become the fully global crisis it was until seventy years ago.” “Everything is Tuberculosis” is one of the ways that @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social has o advocate for stigma-free, affordable and person-centred #tuberculosis care.
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Anastasia Pharris @anastasiapharris.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Grifters don’t belong in public health
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Anastasia Pharris @anastasiapharris.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
✨✨Worth a listen ✨✨ @veronicacristea.bsky.social sets a gold standard for communicating TB surveillance data to non-surveillance audiences!
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 24/03/2025
#JustPublished! Childhood #tuberculosis cases rise by 10%: a disturbing wake-up call for Europe. Read our press release: bit.ly/4kSjgNF Joint ECDC-WHO Europe report: bit.ly/41UtrIP #WorldTBDay #WorldTuberculosisDay #EndTB
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Childhood tuberculosis cases rise by 10%: a disturbing wake-up call for Europe
The 2025 Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring report shows that children under 15 years of age accounted for 4.3% of those with new and relapsed tuberculosis (TB) in the WHO European Region, repre...
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Eurosurveillance journal @eurosurveillance.org · 21/03/2025
Our new issue marks #WorldTBDay 2025 on 24 March with 3 papers on #tuberculosis across #Europe Have a look 🗞️ bit.ly/EUS3011 #EpiSky #IDSky #MedSky #PedSky 🦠🧪🩺 #PublicHealth
Image showing the table of content for issue 11 in 2025:

Rapid communication
Increase in tuberculosis among children and young adolescents, European Union/European Economic Area, 2015 to 2023

Shifting tuberculosis dynamics in the EU/EEA: geographical and drug resistance trends among people of foreign origin, 2019 to 2023

Surveillance
Epidemiology of Staphylococcus haemolyticus nosocomial bacteraemia in neonatal intensive care units, France, 2019 to 2023: predominance of the ST29 (CC3) multidrug-resistant lineage

Research
Tuberculosis rates in migrants in low-incidence European countries, according to country of origin, reporting country and recency of immigration, 2014 to 2020

Systematic Review
Healthcare-associated malaria: a systematic review, 1997 to 2023

Global meta-analysis of short-term associations between ambient temperature and pathogen-specific respiratory infections, 2004 to 2023
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KNCV TB Plus | KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation @kncvtbplus.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
📆 Today the @ecdc.europa.eu & @who.int EURO organized a webinar looking forward on 2025 #WorldTBDay: "Measuring the progress, moving forward towards Ending TB in the WHO European Region". 📈 📌 Our colleague Dr. Ineke Spruijt was one of the experts in the discussion on cross border #TB control🙌
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
An urgent modelling study finds ending US PEPFAR funding and other reductions in international aid could result in up to 10 million more HIV infections and up to 2.9 million HIV related deaths in just the next 5 years. A grim return to a time when we did not have the ability to treat or prevent HIV.
Trump holding up a signed Executive Order.
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Anastasia Pharris @anastasiapharris.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“We are now at the place, only eight weeks into this presidency, at which judges must decide if they will take the necessary steps to enforce their decisions, including sanctions and contempt, or if they will agree to be made irrelevant. Those are the remaining options.”
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
LA County reports first measles case of 2025—in LAX traveler—as cases confirmed in Philadelphia, NY state Authorities said patients in Philadelphia and New York cases had no connection to ongoing outbreaks. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We need some better language for pushing back against what the administration is doing. They’re not “ending DEI.” No. They're firing women and people of color in the military. They’re forbidding whole fields of research. They’re erasing trans people from existence.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Detailed epidemiological report on the outbreak of unknown cause unfolding in the N.W part of the DR Congo. This report released by the WHO yesterday provides a situation update and highlights the key working hypothesis. www.who.int/emergencies/...
who.int
Cluster of community deaths in Basankusu, Equateur- Democratic Republic of the Congo
On 9 February 2025, officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reported to regional health authorities a cluster of 24 unexplained community deaths in a single village in Ekoto health area, Bas...
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
New from me: The Trump administration isn't just shutting down ongoing or future USAID contracts — it's refusing to pay for ~$1.5 billion in work that's already been done around the world. That blatant disregard for compensating people's labor comes from the superrich men at the top.
msnbc.com
Opinion | Trump and Musk refusing to pay USAID's bills threatens far more than foreign aid
It takes a certain kind of mindset to believe that there are no consequences for paying the people who have already provided their labor.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
40 years of progress in controlling the HIV epidemic are about to be completely shattered if nothing is done. Keep speaking out and keep education on what is unfolding.
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
“This will be a bloodbath. Millions will suffer as a result of these actions, and global health—and the very notion of solidarity—will be unrecognizable.” - Jirair Ratevosian on the impact of Trump’s global cuts to HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention. #SaveHIVFunding www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘A bloodbath’: HIV field is reeling after billions in U.S. funding are axed
USAID’s promises to support lifesaving efforts are broken, putting millions in peril
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Anastasia Pharris @anastasiapharris.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Great to see some voices providing European leadership on this important issue! ✨ The urgent need to protect WHO is also an opportunity - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
thelancet.com
The urgent need to protect WHO is also an opportunity
The recently re-elected President of the USA's decision to withdraw the USA from WHO is highly regrettable on multiple levels, and hopefully will be quickly reconsidered.1,2 But if it holds, it nevert...
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