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Colleen Daniels

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Regional Coordinator Asia Pacific MSF Access Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) (Doctors Without Borders) TEDx Talk: Decolonizing Global Health & Drug Policy youtu.be/OQJd-zYqsl0?si=1YhbCJDshT6… www.hri.global

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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Our article titled Neo-colonialism and financing for the war on drugs: a review of current policy and recommendations for countries in the global north was finally published! link.springer.com/article/10.1... @harmreductionintl.bsky.social
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Neo-colonialism and financing for the war on drugs: a review of current policy and recommendations for countries in the global north - Harm Reduction Journal
Globally, punitive drug control upholds racist and colonial structures. Marginalised and racialised communities, including Indigenous peoples, are disproportionately targeted and affected by punitive ...
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
On 6 August, six children were evacuated from Gaza to MSF's reconstructive surgery hospital in Jordan, including the five-year-old son of an MSF staff member who was injured in a blast amidst the ongoing genocide. @msf.ca @msfaccess.org @msfdircom.bsky.social
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
How can we let this continue? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds
Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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‘Hungry aid staff fainting’ as starvation spreads in Gaza and truce hopes fade
UN agency for Palestinians says ‘entire humanitarian system is collapsing’ as ceasefire negotiations fall apart
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Jonathan Nez @formerpreznez.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
My name is Jonathan Nez. I’m the former President of the Navajo Nation. Today, I am running for Congress to defeat MAGA Republican Eli Crane, flip Arizona’s 2nd blue, and take back the house. Let’s win this.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Gaza 1 in 4 young children and pregnant women malnourished as Israel's policy of starvation continues. The deliberate use of starvation as a weapon has reached unprecedented levels, patients & healthcare workers now fighting to survive, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns. @msfaccess.org @msf.org
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This! “The U.S. may be doing more than simply failing to aid global vaccination efforts. The domestic stoking of anti-vaccine sentiment is itself infectious” www.newyorker.com/science/elem...
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Calculating the Damage of Vaccine Skepticism
It’s clear that we’re on the precipice of a surge in preventable diseases. But how bad will it get?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This is the courage the world needs from those in the media ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
If they can do that to a United States senator... think about how little they care about what they do to us.
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Dem Senator Speaks Out After He Was Thrown To Ground And Handcuffed For Questioning Kristi Noem At LA Press Conference
If they can do that to a United States senator...
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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Urgent: Stop the ship of death! ✊
A ship meant to be loaded with military equipment for Israel is docked in France - but courageous dockworkers are refusing to load it. They’re taking a stand for peace, justice, and Palestine. Let’s s...
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NPR @npr.org · 15/05/2025
It was the second night of heavy bombing, after airstrikes Wednesday on northern and southern Gaza killed dozens of people, including almost two dozen children.
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Dozens are killed in overnight airstrikes on southern Gaza city, hospital says
It was the second night of heavy bombing, after airstrikes Wednesday on northern and southern Gaza killed dozens of people, including almost two dozen children.
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MSF Access @msfaccess.org · 15/05/2025
💬 “For years, South Africa has spearheaded R&D of critical innovative medical tools for HIV and TB which have saved lives not just within South Africa’s borders, but also in communities worldwide,” said Dr Tom Ellman, director of Southern Africa Medical Unit of MSF.
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MSF Access @msfaccess.org · 15/05/2025
A recent joint analysis by @treatmentactiongroup.org and MSF revealed that 39 #TB and #HIV clinical research sites in South Africa are under threat due to potential funding cuts by the US, placing at least 27 HIV trials and 20 TB trials at risk.
Impact on US-funded TB research in South AfricaImpact on US-funded HIV research in South Africa
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MSF Access @msfaccess.org · 15/05/2025
⚠️ South Africa: Lifesaving scientific research on prevention, testing, treatment and care for people living with #HIV and #tuberculosis is under serious threat due to funding suspensions and grant terminations U.S. government. msfaccess.org/us-funding-c...
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US funding cuts threaten 39 research sites in South Africa, putting scientific advancements and hard-won progress against TB and HIV at risk
TAG and MSF urge donors to act now to protect ongoing research and ensure continuity of care for people with HIV and TB
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“Tuberculosis is both a form and expression of injustice” My review of @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's new book @thelancet.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The injustice of tuberculosis
Why would John Green, a best-selling American novelist, write a book about tuberculosis? The answer can be found in his new book Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadlies...
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Such a good day with #Dutton out! #Auspol #Australia #Election2025 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Anthony Albanese wins 2025 federal election with Labor on track for majority
Peter Dutton set to lose own seat of Dickson in Brisbane as Coalition suffers collapse in support
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 14/04/2025
"Because of the PEPFAR funding freeze, she found that an adult life will be lost every 3 minutes and a child will die every 31 minutes."
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“It’s Unacceptable”: BU Mathematician Tracks How Many Deaths May Result from USAID, Medicaid Cuts
The impact trackers update in real time based on the loss of international aid programs combating HIV and tuberculosis
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 09/04/2025
Friends and former USAID global public health professionals have launched an emergency campaign to support high-impact local HIV organizations with stop gap funding. Please consider supporting to directly help them continue HIV services in the near term while they plan for the future. 🧵1
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A Crisis in Care: Urgent Funding Needed to Sustain Lifesaving HIV Services - GlobalGiving
The abrupt termination of USAID-supported HIV programs has created a devastating crisis for vulnerable communities, leaving children, families, and at-risk populations without essential services. Thes...
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I wonder if this will lead to #China and other countries simply breaking all #patents and making goods at cheaper prices?!? #iPhone for $39!?!! #Dyson vacuum for $30!!!? Better yet, essential #diagnostics and #medicines that are affordable and accessible!! #tariffs #US
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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/04/2025
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27
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South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A must read. Fascinating new book, Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis by #TaoLeighGoffe. "Revealing secrets to #racial and #environmental progress that impact how we live today." #racism #climatechange #climatejustice
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cory Booker
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a pink bunny wearing sunglasses is holding a drum with the words `` still going '' written on it .
Alt: a pink bunny wearing sunglasses is holding a drum with the words `` still going '' written on it .
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
How quickly #American #universities capitulated to #facism and the end of #freespeech is astounding. @msf.ca @harmreductionintl.bsky.social #NYU #Blacksky #USAID www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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NYU canceled talk on USAID cuts for being ‘anti-governmental’, doctor says
University called Dr Joanne Liu, ex-head of Doctors Without Borders, after planning to speak on Gaza and federal cuts
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Invest in justice.
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Arndell @arndell.ca · 12/03/2025
Haven't said it in a while: If you aren't yet, I suggest following Doctors Without Borders @msf.ca on #Bluesky. 🦋
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Nice work #Tottenham #London Fight #fascism credit to photographer (not my picture).
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Appalling - number of people executed by governments for drug offenses increases. #HumanRights #StopExecutions
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Shameful
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Political apathy can no longer be an appropriate response.
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
www.who.int/news/item/27...
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Protecting key populations from abrupt disruptions to essential HIV services
Abrupt disruptions to foreign aid and service delivery in the global HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections response threaten unprecedented progress in improving population health ov...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Join our webinar: Drug Consumption Rooms: Service Models and Evidence. Learn about the latest innovations on DCRs and their impact around the world! @harmreductionintl.bsky.social Register here: tinyurl.com/tne576er
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
@harmreductionintl.bsky.social is collecting photographs from previous harm reduction conferences to display as part of a 'harm reduction fashion archive' at its conference in Bogotá. If you have any photos, send them to conference@hri.global. More info here: hr25.hri.global/sartorial-so...
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SARTORIAL SOLIDARITY
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
it really doesn't get any more disgusting than this. sick
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/02/2025
‘White supremacists in suits and ties’: the rightwing Afrikaner group in Trump’s ear
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‘White supremacists in suits and ties’: the rightwing Afrikaner group in Trump’s ear
Trump’s asylum offer to South Africa’s white minority follows years of AfriForum lobbying on Elon Musk’s behalf Donald Trump’s offer of political asylum to South Africa’s white minority, just days after blocking genuine refugees from travelling to the…
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
At the rate Trump, Musk and MAGA are destroying science research, we must prepare to lose access to precious resources like PubMed & ClinicalTrials.gov @hildabast.bsky.social absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
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What if We Can't Rely on PubMed? - Absolutely Maybe
PubMed is incredibly reliable. And a lot depends on it. It’s an ecosystem built around MEDLINE, the steady feed of new publications…
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The broligarchy has made billions since Trump’s election Wow
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Where you put your money is important. youtu.be/QAHSgVk84B0?... #apartheid
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"The PayPal Mafia": The South African Oligarchs Surrounding Trump, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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Harm Reduction International @harmreductionintl.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Early Bird registration for #HR25Bogotá is officially CLOSED… and we’ve smashed our previous records with the highest number of Early Bird registrations ever!
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Sublime
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Imagine if all our countries in the Global South stopped all debt repayments to the north - we could afford to pay for our #healthcare #harmreduction #HIV #TB education, housing #USAID #USG #aidfunding #decolonizeglobalhealth
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
In 2017, @msf.org identified a target price for bedaquiline that the world thought was absurdly, impossibly low. Just eight years later, we've achieved that goal, bc Johnson & Johnson (under a lot of pressure) abandoned their attempts at patent evergreening. So grateful to everyone in this fight.
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
BREAKING: We’ve WON a historic case against the Rosebank & Jackdaw oil & gas fields. 🎉 👏 NO NEW OIL AND GAS! 📣 This is GAME-CHANGING. And it’s ONLY been possible thanks to YEARS of fighting by THOUSANDS of climate campaigners! Power to the people. ✊
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Colleen Daniels @colleeninldn.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Joined a panel with Ruth Dreifuss (former Swiss President), Anne Lévy, Colombian Ambassador Laura Gil, & Ricardo Baptista Leite for MP Portugal about #drugpolicy Drug policy is an arena for colonial power relations to continue articulating themselves & must be dismantled not reformed. #endwarondrugs
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