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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

@stephanienolen.bsky.social thanks for highlighting the source of this disruptive practice: $ that is not fairly distributed. Servicing of usurious external debt costs nearly 50% of Cameroon’s GDP, and precludes adequate spending on health. @pih.org works to change this status quo.

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4 Months Trapped in a Hospital for an Obsolete Way of Treating Their Disease

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

“History isn’t written by those who yield to scarcity, but by those who act despite it.” Community health workers save lives around the world for $0.59/person/year. How can we say we can’t afford this? time.com/7336627/comm...

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Community Health is Worth the Cost

To stop the spread of infectious diseases, the U.S. should invest in community health programs around the world.

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

For those who care about TB—and humanity—this is a terrific and well-referenced article about the death and destruction sown by the current U.S. administration. www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis... thank you @cidrap, for this comprehensive reporting. @tbfighters.org @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

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Experts warn loss of USAID endangers the fight against deadly TB

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

#PMC2025 will officially begin shortly. Chris started his ride for #ekiponkoloji & @pih.org cancer services ~1 hour ago. He is carrying names of our (& our supporters’) friends & family affected by cancer on his back & in his ❤️. U can still donate at profile.pmc.org/CJ0049. 🙏 for ur support!

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

My hubby, Chris Johnson is among the Brookline riders in #PMC2025 featured in this @brooklinenews.bsky.social piece (brookline.news/dozens-of-br...). He is riding again for @pih.org Ekip Onkoloji team. Read more about Chris’s motivation & donate at: profile.pmc.org/CJ0049

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Why I Ride ...to attack disparities in cancer care

In this year's PMC ride, Ekip Onkoloji will be using the funds we raise to support our oncology work in multiple countries:

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Thx to @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social and Ed. Ari Colosio for the rapid publication of endTB-Q & podcast. Resistant forms of TB are only more likely w/US abdication of its role in global health. Trial results remind us of the dangers of one-size-fits-all approaches in TB & all infectious diseases.

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

If senators do NOT know “what they are actually rescinding”, they fail their constituents by voting for rescissions. Pls use these simple tools to quickly let your senators know you oppose the rescissions &/or oppose voting without full information. win.newmode.net/callaboutres...

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Partners In Health @pih.org · 25/06/2025

The House passed a bill that would gut global health funding and the Senate is next. Programs like PEPFAR, TB care, and UNICEF are all on the line. 🗣️ Call your Senator today and tell them: Vote NO on the $9.4B rescissions package. Take action: act.pih.org/global-healt...

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Don't cut funding

Tell Congress to reverse the Trump Administration's decision to freeze all U.S. foreign aid spending on global health programs, including the delivery of lifesaving medicines to vulnerable patients.

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Partners In Health @pih.org · 23/06/2025

What do foreign aid cuts mean for TB care? The U.S. has led the fight against TB for decades. Cutting aid now risks millions of lives. TB is curable. The crisis is political. Dr. @cdmitpih.bsky.social and Dr. Jen Furin break it down in this video. Watch and help fill the gap: pih.org/fill-the-gap

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Beanewood Commafurbatch Ending @beanedictc.dftba.social · 10/06/2025

Would you spend $20 to save a human life? What about $20 to save thousands of lives? What if I told you that if you pay US taxes, you already *have* paid this $20, but Trump doesn’t want it to be spent saving lives? That’s exactly what’s happening with these rescissions: youtu.be/oJW2iES4oPw?...

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The Bargain of a Lifetime

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

47’s “style of politics…depends on inconsistency, radical unwillingness to be bound by his own or others’ past actions, and verbal incoherence as a kind of gonzo performance art.”👏

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Science is not partisan. The research funded by USG in Montana & around the world, helps Americans directly and indirectly through innovation and economic benefits.

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

In addition to destroying the withering social safety net in the US, the Bill passed by the House: 1) impedes the judicial branch’s ability to hold govt actors in contempt when they defy judicial order; 2) halts state protections against AI-generated election lies.

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

“Absurd to insinuate”, indeed. Direct statements about the extreme level of corruption & cruelty are much more apt. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

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TAG - Treatment Action Group @treatmentactiongroup.org · 21/05/2025

AIDS activists protested today at Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s appearing at the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The protesters, including TAG’s Kendall Martinez-Wright, demanded full reinstatement of PEPFAR’S programs and funding for FY26. Details: healthgap.org/press/aids-a...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

From GPS to GLP agonist drugs, US Federal science funding has provided so many remarkable innovations! Everything is now under jeopardy! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

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9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This is nuts. More manipulation & destruction of human health advances—especially in infectious diseases. Who ever heard of “expiring” opportunities because they hadn’t previously expired?

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This is a spectacular tribute to people who care about others, simply because they are human and intentionally because they are the most marginalized, isolated. We have a lot to learn from @pih.org and socios en salud. 🥰

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

“I’m not knocking the drug companies,” Mr. Trump said on Monday before signing the order. “I’m really more knocking the countries than the drug companies.” These are the countries that have managed to secure lower prices for their drugs…

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 14/05/2025

It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid. While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️ x.com/i/broadcasts...

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HAPPENING NOW: Republicans are putting health care on the chopping block / X

HAPPENING NOW: Republicans are putting health care on the chopping block

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hucfar.bsky.social @hucfar.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

📣👋🏼May-19⏰12:30pm US ET #HIV Research in Progress w/Dr Hejazi @HarvardBiostatsℹ️ mailchi.mp/fa44136af7e2... ✔️ @hsph.harvard.edu @ragoninstitute.bsky.social @cdmitpih.bsky.social @bidmcreseach.bsky.social @tuftsmedschool.bsky.social @harvardgh.bsky.social @harvardepi.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social

Nima HejazI, PhD presents HU CFAR HIV research in progress "Comparative evaluation of MDR-TB therapeutic regimens from endTB and TB-PRACTECAL using causal machine learning"

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Very proud of endTB co-PI, Lorenzo Guglielmetti, for being honored by @timemagazine.bsky.social #Time100 Health for his catalytic work on new, safe, short regimens for MDR-TB. Results published in @nejm.org #TBSky

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TIME100 Health: Lorenzo Guglielmetti

Find out why Lorenzo Guglielmetti is on the TIME100 Health 2025 list.

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

With resources, will, innovation, solidarity, & compassion, we can solve many major health problems. It will be harder w/USG abdication. That fight is not over yet! Thx to Gates for doubling down. #TBSky

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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TIME100 Health: Lorenzo Guglielmetti

Find out why Lorenzo Guglielmetti is on the TIME100 Health 2025 list.

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

« Americans spend roughly seven times more on pet food annually than is spent globally on TB. » 200+ generous ppl used their hard-earned resources to tell their Members of Congress that we can do much better, w/a modest additional, per-capita investment! I’m so grateful. #TBSky @tbfighters.org

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TB Hill Day: Asking Congress to Support the Fight Against the World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease

Partners In Health helped facilitate the largest Tuberculosis (TB) Hill Day to date alongside TB experts, survivors, advocates—and bestselling author John Green.

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The depth of inconsistency and disingenuousness in the current administration is staggering. They use the pretense that national security drives policy at NIH while it does NOT matter in 47’s Defense Dept or his own crypto & other personal business transactions ½

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/04/2025

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Another example of “cut-first, evaluate-after” destruction fomented by 47. It will lead to more deaths now & later, waste taxpayer funds spent on lifesaving research, and delay future progress. Like health care, health research stopped (& restarted) on a whim has serious consequences. 1/1

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Informative & chilling explanation of strategy to destroy NIH. #HandsoffNIH pls let ur members of congress know that it’s not ok to stop cancer research, write to local newspapers. Expose these lethal plans.

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Important contribution to the landscape for R&D. Can bring important transparency for pricing products resulting from private-public collaborations & useful for donors.

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Cesar Ugarte-Gil @cugartegil.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Of course we need to be clever how to spend the limited resources, but never lost the perspective: patients are persons with dreams and should be the center of care! We have the tools, and we know what we need to address as a society (social determinants), so we should be the cure! #EndTB (4/4)

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Asia Russell @asia-ilse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This is a suicide acceleration strategy. They want people to die; there is no other explanation.

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Hi Kate-- I'm really sorry to hear this. If NIH terminations are any guide, we expect NSF terminations to be chaotic, so we're trying to track them and organize the information. If don't mind, please have your team enter their grants here: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... And please spread the word.

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

More generally, a novel pandemic virus will always possess a characteristic not currently found in nature… because it’s a novel pandemic virus.

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Great resource to reveal impact of senseless, murderous cuts. We need to figure out how to communicate same to non-specialist audiences.

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Asia Russell @asia-ilse.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

>> The mountain of coffins for Rubio is growing, these are the effects of his hypocrisy and cowardice as Sec of State. The blood of people with #AIDS is on his hands.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

If you are in Boston on May 1st, please drop by and engage in these global health conversations @bostonu.bsky.social & @harvardmed.bsky.social

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

If JD Vance gets his way & having more children in a jurisdiction means more Federal $, Austin will be flush. It’s curious that the expectation that children be born w/i confines of marriage between man & woman does NOT apply to this extorting seed-spreader. www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

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The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers

The world’s richest man juggles more than a dozen children and ‘harem drama’ along with running his companies and advising Trump. He recently took a paternity test in a battle with one woman over mone...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 16/04/2025

Join an online session for the April 17 #DayofActionforHigherEd. Register: www.dayofactionforhighered.org/events

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Stephanie Nolen @stephanienolen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The Biden administration was a key part of talks until January - then President Trump pulled out of the WHO. The treaty is being hailed as a victory for multilateralism; it's a first in a world where the U.S. is ceding its anchor role. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/h...

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WHO Member Countries Agree to Pandemic Treaty (Gift Article)

The World Health Organization finally reached a compromise on a pandemic treaty after three years of talks. The United States withdrew from negotiations after President Trump took office.

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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Astute summary of the short-sightedness of 47’s withdrawal of foreign aid. Costs will be felt by US companies that lose paths to innovation & markets for export, to US security as conflict & China rise to fill the vacuum, & to US health as discovery achieved through global partnerships is squashed.

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“Putting America First” — Undermining Health for Populations at Home and Abroad | NEJM

The dismantling of foreign-assistance efforts has already had, and will continue to have, severe effects on vulnerable populations globally. But it also has implications for people in the United St...

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