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Gorik Ooms

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Human rights law; global health law

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Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"The wider global health lesson is simple: evidence makes policy defensible, but power determines when it becomes possible."
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Gorik Ooms @gorikooms.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
4/4 To protect the “unique genius” of the “race” of Ghent or Flanders or Belgium, shall we bar all other people from Ghent University? That is what Cofnas implies. He should never have been hired. No student should feel unwelcome or unwanted at Ghent University because of her/his/their “descent”.
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Gorik Ooms @gorikooms.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
3/4 “There must be some barriers set up between races in order for each one to express its own unique genius”, or so argues Cofnas. “Races” are “populations that are more or less distinguished from each other due to common descent”, or so argues Cofnas.
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Gorik Ooms @gorikooms.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
2/4 Should all opinions be allowed at universities? Imagine your daughter coming home from her first day at university, where a professor lectured her about why (in his humble opinion, of course) women should be barred from universities. Would you tolerate that? I would not.
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Gorik Ooms @gorikooms.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
1/4 Today, Ghent University suspended Nathan Cofnas. It was about time. There’s a fundamental difference between facts and opinions. Statements about facts are either true or false. Opinions are right or wrong, or somewhere in between. Opinions are always subjective, at least to some extent.
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apache/ @apache.be · 20/08/2026
UGent heeft 'rassenrealist' Nathan Cofnas geschorst naar aanleiding van een tuchtrechtelijk onderzoek. Gisteren zei UGent nog niet vooruit te willen lopen op mogelijke beslissingen over Cofnas en diens rol in het overlijden van de Britse socioloog Jason Arday. apache.be/2026/08/20/r...
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'Rassenrealist' Cofnas geschorst aan UGent
De schorsing komt er naar aanleiding van een tuchtrechtelijk vooronderzoek.
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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
MSF technical brief on diagnostics for Bundibugyo Ebola disease: msfaccess.org/The-diagnost...
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The diagnostic blind spot in the 2026 Bundibugyo Ebola disease outbreak: access gaps and priority actions
A technical briefer sharing gaps and access priorities to ensure access to right diagnostics for Bundibugyo Ebola virus outbreak in DRC and Uganda.
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Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My Reflection from UN on HIV yesterday. Remarkable, paradoxical, dramatic. At turbulent moment, multilat'lism stuck on many fronts, Political Decl. is STRIKINGLY good on many issues. Fascinating political bedfellows. Signs of HIV crisis biting for com'ities. A thread on politics & policy: 🧵1/12
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Gorik Ooms @gorikooms.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Over 30 countries come together to redesign finance for international cooperation - GPI Governments
As foreign aid tumbles, a group of pioneer governments are shaping a new approach fit for the 21st century   9 June 2026 – With traditional finance falling, a rapidly growing coalition of governments ...
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
At Accra Reset event on the sidelines of WHA79, Ghana's health minister calls this a "historic moment" that "shifts us from passive recipients of aid to sovereign architects of our own health systems."
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Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp @itmantwerp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Onze jurist @gorikooms.bsky.social over Trumps 'zorgdeals' met 27 Afrikaanse landen: hulp en medicijnen in ruil voor mineralen en medische data. "Dit is onderhandelen met het mes op de keel."
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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
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Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF
Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.
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Amrish Baidjoe @amrishbaidjoe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
What an amazing cynical world.
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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A case of burying the lede. Midway through, there's a quote: "people estimated that around a quarter of the national budget goes on overseas aid — far higher than the real figure of 0.3% of gross national income." Why do people in the UK feel that way? That's the question. Everything else follows.
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International Health Policies (IHP) network @ihpnetwork.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
America First in global health: a lesson in the consequences of ‘might is right’? www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-art... Feat article by @gorikooms.bsky.social
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Gorik Ooms @gorikooms.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
link.springer.com/article/10.1... Even if at risk today, still worth remembering how it was done
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The successful scaling-up of antiretroviral therapy globally has many lessons for advancing universal health coverage: progress at risk - Globalization and Health
Globalization and Health - The expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART) over the past twenty years is one of the most significant achievements in public health. It has transformed HIV from a...
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Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp @itmantwerp.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
“In a partnership on equal footing, one side cannot decide to reduce a previously agreed contribution by 25% or 50%. A cooperation should be more reliable than a donor–recipient relationship,” says @gorikooms.bsky.social, health-policy researcher at ITM. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The US and Europe have cut billions in health aid — can anyone fill the gap?
It's time to radically reimagine global health, leaders tell World Health Summit in Berlin.
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Kristof Decoster @kristofdecoster.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Wondering when we're going to "sunset" Ryanair, Exxon Mobil, Amazon and all the rest of them. #WHS2025 #GHreform
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Kristof Decoster @kristofdecoster.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Surely one of the more annoying things here at #WHS2025 is the ubiquitous use of the term "innovative financing" by many, when they mean "common sense taxation", even of the prudent kind, at least when considering we live in a world of massive inequality.
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World Health Summit @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
“This crisis is an opportunity for reform.” – John-Arne Røttingen, CEO, Wellcome Trust
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World Health Summit @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
🎥💻 We’re live now #WHS2025 has officially started. 🌐 Know someone passionate about global health? Share this post and invite them to join the #WHS2025 conversation.  👉 All livestream links are available on our website: f.mtr.cool/pcehexgjrn #GlobalHealth #HealthForAll
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Er, do they all talk at the same time and answer the question they wanted you to ask rather than the one you actually asked?
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Raffaella Ravinetto @rravinetto.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The @ALLEA_academies Board has published a statement expressing its deep respect and full support for the public statement issued by Professor David Harel on July 14th 2025. #Gaza #health #aid allea.org/portfolio-it...
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Statement of the Board of ALLEA in Alignment with the Stance of Prof. David Harel, President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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Belén Tarrafeta @belentarrafeta.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
As governments pull back from global aid, rethinking Global Health is urgent. Thanks to @gorikooms.bsky.social for calling for real multilateralism and pragmatism. Reforming Global Health is a shared responsibility. #GlobalHealth #Multilateralism #HealthEquity journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Is global health security worth 0.01% of our gross domestic product?
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The end of aid: What The Global South needs to do Six key actions countries can take – and should have taken a long time ago – if they are to liberate themselves from dependence on foreign aid @themrise.bsky.social www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
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The end of aid: What The Global South needs to do
Six key actions countries can take – and should have taken a long time ago – if they are to liberate themselves from dependence on foreign aid.
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Kristof Decoster @kristofdecoster.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Nice metaphor!
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
This is Lydia Nabirye. A Ugandan, she was a mother and dreamed of becoming a nurse. She also lived with HIV w/support from a U.S.-funded program. The Trump administration eliminated the program in January. Lydia died two months later: forsaken.life/orals/lydia-... @unaids.org @asia-ilse.bsky.social
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Lydia Nabirye - FORSAKEN
I told her there's still time for everything. It's a long life. I told her she would not be neglected.
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Ellen MH Mitchell @emhmitchell.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Rebuild TB programs with less precarious financial & governance structures #tbsky www.itg.be/en/health-st...
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International health threat response
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria should step up efforts
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GHA EU @ghabrussels.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🇪🇺The 2025 EU #GHPF25 is taking place today, organised by the @ec.europa.eu in Brussels. 📝We will be present alongside many other civil society organisations to ask important questions regarding accountability and share key recommendations for the future of this strategy. See you there!
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Gorik Ooms @gorikooms.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
While discussing 'the' 'new' global health architecture at #GHPF25
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PLOS Global Public Health @plosglobalpublichealth.org · 15/05/2025
NEW Opinion from @gorikooms.bsky.social et al: Is global health security worth 0.01% of our gross domestic product? journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Is global health security worth 0.01% of our gross domestic product?
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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I think most people have a hard time believing that the USAID/PEPFAR cuts are as bad as they are bc it's impossible to stomach that policymakers would knowingly kill millions. But this is what is happening. PEPFAR supported antiretroviral therapy for 20.6 million people. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Portraits: A 10-year-old, a house painter and a mom who are running out of HIV pills
HIV medications were supposed to be exempt from U.S. aid cuts. In Zambia, for example, those on the ground say otherwise.
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Raffaella Ravinetto @rravinetto.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Immunization for all is humanly possible, but often practically impossible for millions of forcibly #displaced people. We need more research&resources: if #Health is a human #right, immunization should not leave anyone behind #WorldImmunizationWeek @salehaljadeeah.bsky.social @itmantwerp.bsky.social
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Dr Fifa A Rahman @fifarahman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
🚨NEW ARTICLE @thediplomat.com: Seismic political shifts in the West means that we need a long term South-South roadmap. Written by 6 experts from each region of the Global South, we contemplate the decline of the West and propose next steps. @munira.bsky.social Read: thediplomat.com/2025/03/a-ro...
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A Roadmap for South-South Cooperation
Greater Global South solidarity is the only viable solution in the face of the seismic political shifts in the West.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Africans with #HIV facing new dangers, as Trump administration cuts aid, by @geoffreyyork.bsky.social, Jeffrey Moyo www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... via @theglobeandmail.com #GlobalHealth #AIDS
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Africans with HIV facing new dangers, as Trump administration cuts aid
As many as 600,000 people could die over the next 10 years in South Africa alone as a result of U.S. funding cuts, study says
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Ellen 't Hoen @ellenthoen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Argentina’s copycat move: follows US in leaving the WHO www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Argentina to withdraw from World Health Organization after Trump exit
Argentina will pull out of the World Health Organization (WHO), the presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said on Wednesday, following President Donald Trump's executive order last month to pull the United States out of the global health group.
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MO*Magazine @mondiaalnieuws.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
‘De rapporten van het VN-Klimaatpanel worden met de jaren alarmerender, terwijl hun politieke impact paradoxaal genoeg lijkt af te nemen.’ Opinie van milieuwetenschapper Aaron Van Poucke.
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‘De klimaatcrisis is meer dan ooit een politieke keuze’ – MO*
Milieuwetenschapper roept op om de urgentie van de klimaatcrisis écht te erkennen en er doortastend naar te handelen.
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Rob Yates @robyates123.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Developing countries in Asia would be much better advised to follow Thailand's truly universal health model than India's system that selectively provides insurance against inpatient hospital care: www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/gen...
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Thailand's 30-baht healthcare plan in final roll out
The fourth and final phase of the so-called "treatment anywhere" 30-baht universal healthcare scheme will kick off in the last 31 provinces of the country on Jan 1, as the nation adopts more digital...
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Rob Yates @robyates123.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
It really is time Kenya abandoned insurance models and followed Thailand's tax financed route to UHC eastleighvoice.co.ke/universal%20...
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Confusion and concerns persist as Kenyans struggle with new social health insurance scheme
While the government has maintained that SHIF is functioning effectively, many Kenyans are still frustrated and eager for the system's issues to be addressed.
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salehaljadeeah.bsky.social @salehaljadeeah.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
We need to discuss the impact of sanctions on access to health. Read our correspondence published at the Lancet and titled “Sanctions and the right to health in post-Assad Syria”. @rravinetto.bsky.social @gorikooms.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Sanctions and the right to health in post-Assad Syria
Dec 8, 2024, marked the end of the five-decade long regime of Bashir al-Assad and the Assad family in Syria, characterised by systemic repression, human rights abuses, and crimes against humanity.1 After the protests of 2011, Assad's response involved indiscriminate bombings, targeting of health-care facilities and health-care workers, and the use of internationally prohibited chemical weapons, triggering one of the worst humanitarian crises since World War 2.1
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Kristof Decoster @kristofdecoster.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Second good news in one week. After the resilience of South-Korean democracy, the end of Abbas' dictatorship in Syria. Even if plenty of caveats, not all is lost yet.
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Some stats from Nature survey of science-policy experts: • 70% said governments are not routinely using science advice • 80% say policymakers don’t understand science…. • ….but 73% say researchers don’t understand policy! by @helenpearson.bsky.social in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Louis Johnston @ldjeconomics.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The Myth of Objective Data, by Melanie Feinberg thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-... via @mitpress.bsky.social
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The Myth of Objective Data
When we view objectivity and subjectivity as opposites rather than complements, we distort the empirical realities of data collection.
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Remco van de Pas @rvandepas.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Developing countries urged to reject ‘bad deal’ as Cop29 climate talks falter. Talk grows of a walkout from poor countries in response to ‘unacceptable’ and ‘insulting’ finance proposal www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Developing countries urged to reject ‘bad deal’ as Cop29 climate talks falter
Talk grows of a walkout from poor countries in response to ‘unacceptable’ and ‘insulting’ finance proposal
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MO*Magazine @mondiaalnieuws.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Migratie-expert Ugochi Daniels (IOM): ‘De klimaatverandering wakkert een migratiecrisis aan’
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Migratie-expert Ugochi Daniels: ‘De klimaatverandering wakkert een migratiecrisis aan’ – MO*
Ugochi Daniels (IOM) ziet migratie enkel nog toenemen als gevolg van de klimaatverandering.
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Kim Ozano @kimozano.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
#HSR2024 may be over but there is still an opportunity to continue sharing knowledge. Check out the following episodes capturing some of the innovations and thinking in Global Health, from the halls of the symposium. bit.ly/HSR_CCS_E1 bit.ly/HSR_CCS_E2 Follow @ccspodcast.bsky.social for more!
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Kristof Decoster @kristofdecoster.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Check out this week's IHP news 804: Final dispatch from Nagasaki www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/newsletter/ pdf: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/wp-content/u... To subscribe to the weekly KM tool: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org Next issue in two weeks: around 8 December.
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Newsletter
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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
At #HSR2024 and wondering where to follow and post - as an individual and in your organizational capacity? Is social media becoming a significant determinant of health? We’ve got you covered with the timeliest session 😉 Join Thursday, 11.40am.
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Lucy Gilson @lucygilson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Our addiction to fossil fuels is driving the climate crisis. Plenary 1 #HSR2024
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