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Kathy Erb

@kathyerb.bsky.social
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Communications Director at Christian Connections for International Health (CCIH).

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Kathy Erb @kathyerb.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This is baffling. What is their end game with this? It is likely we will soon see outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in Florida. Who benefits from that? I honestly want to hear the logic.
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March For Our Lives @marchforourlives.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This is the reality of America’s gun crisis — kids traumatized at school while leaders cash checks from the gun lobby. This is not normal, and it will keep happening until our leaders choose kids over guns.
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Kathy Erb @kathyerb.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Nothing else - ignoring the behavior or speaking out- seemed to help over the last 10 years. Anything that may eventually help stop the nonsense is welcomed.
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Following this month’s cuts of nearly $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine research, we're revisiting a conversation from February about the ongoing development of an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer.
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mRNA Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In the wake of funding cuts to mRNA vaccine research, we revisit a February story about a promising vaccine for pancreatic cancer.
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Kathy Erb @kathyerb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
As an alum I find this concerning and completely out of line with the party that claimed to support small government. How quickly that changed… wapo.st/3I1kyqJ
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U-Va. President Jim Ryan tells board he’ll resign amid DOJ pressure
The extraordinary move comes as the Trump administration has launched investigations into universities to achieve its policy goals.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
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Kathy Erb @kathyerb.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This….One of the clearest and most moving pieces I have read since the misguided gutting of the US role in global health.
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Emily Belz @emilybelz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“If you close a stabilization center, you are literally going to be unhooking children from IVs and sending them home." www.christianitytoday.com/2025/05/trum...
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Aid Cuts Could Disrupt Historic Drops in Child and Maternal Mortality - Christianity Today
With clinics shutting down and orphanages filling up, Christian health workers worry about worsening health outcomes in Africa.
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Kathy Erb @kathyerb.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Shout out to @americanair.bsky.social for a great trip thanks to efficient and thoughtful staff at #BTR and #DCA who made traveling with someone with severe mobility issues go smoothly.
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Kathy Erb @kathyerb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Please share with Faith Leaders and anyone who could benefit from an explainer about the tremendous loss of #USAID and foreign aid. CCIH head Doug Fountain is speaking tonight at 6 pm EDT in this webinar hosted by @stratprinllc.bsky.social
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Kathy Erb @kathyerb.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A thoughtful and thorough telling of how the abrupt terminations and inconsistent efforts to restart programs are affecting the lifesaving work of Christian organizations in @christianitytoday.com by @emilybelz.bsky.social #USAID www.christianitytoday.com/2025/03/usai...
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The Yo-Yo Between Life and Death in Global Health - Christianity Today
Funding canceled. Funding renewed. New documents show the extent of the Trump administration’s historic aid cuts, and the few programs saved.
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Emily Belz @emilybelz.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
icymi: lots of bad news for people receiving US aid, but last week there were two pieces of good news. - two big HIV treatment contracts were renewed after being terminated. - a factory making specialized food for malnourished kids is operational again. www.christianitytoday.com/2025/03/usai...
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The Yo-Yo Between Life and Death in Global Health - Christianity Today
Funding canceled. Funding renewed. New documents show the extent of the Trump administration’s historic aid cuts, and the few programs saved.
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Emily Belz @emilybelz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Amy Grant signs a letter to Congress calling for the preservation of PEPFAR - "Twenty million souls for whom 'America' means generosity, compassion and life."
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Emily @eklove.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This graphic is for one maternal and child health program my NGO was part of through USAID. Starting in 2021, this cumulative data is the last we have before the #USAIDstopworkorder in January. (We learned last week the order is permanent for this project, along with 94% of all USAID programs.) 1/
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Kathy Erb @kathyerb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Sobering but important news from @emilybelz.bsky.social of @christianitytoday.com on the #USAID freeze hurting Christian organizations and the people they care for: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/usai...
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Supply Chains Break and Hospitals Shutter After USAID Freeze - Christianity Today
Christian donations can only do so much to fill the gap when facilities grapple with layoffs, scarce drugs, and unanswered questions.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
America has turned on its triends
Trump's abandonment of his country's allies is real and will endure
Winston Churchill is credited with saying that America does the right thing after exhausting the alternatives. Donald Trump has turned that aphorism on its head. In the past 10 days, he has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. Those who thought America was a friend or ally, notably Ukraine and Nato, are dropping once safe assumptions to cope with a world in which America is an unabashed predator. Countries that were treated by Washington as adversaries, notably Vladimir Putin's Russia, are suddenly America's friend.
There were hinge moments in history when the US displayed its character as global leader, such as Dwight Eisen-hower's repudiation of Anglo-French imperialism in the 1956 Suez crisis, or
Ronald Reagan's 1987 exhortation to the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall. They defined the world's idea of America. Trump's assertion this week that Ukraine "should have never started" the war is the dark version of those. His account of Russia being provoked to invade Ukraine came straight from Putin's talking points. So too was JD Vance's Valentine's Day speech in Munich in which the US vice-president identified liberal democracy as Europe's real threat from within.
These moments will live in infamy.
What do they tell us about what is com-ing? First, there should be no doubt that Trump's contempt for allies and admiration for strongmen is real and will endure. During his first term, Trump's instincts were curbed by the more traditional Republicans around him. Trump 2.0 is the real article. It is entirely possible that figures like Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, or Mike Waltz, his national security adviser, still believe in the US-led alliance that each once championed. Their private thoughts are irrelevant. Each displayed fealty to Trump's predatory vision of America at talks with Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia this week. Uk…
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Kathy Erb @kathyerb.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Thanks for getting her story out there @susankbarnett.bsky.social
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Kathy Erb @kathyerb.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
What Christians Can Do in the Face of the US Foreign Aid Freeze www.ccih.org/what-christi... I'm proud of my organization Christian Connections for International Health (CCIH) for putting this together. #USAID #ForeignAid #GlobalDevelopment #HumanitarianAid
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What Christians Can Do in the Face of the US Foreign Aid Freeze - CCIH
The recent and abrupt freeze on United States foreign assistance is causing massive disruptions to life-saving work—including the work of Christian organizations—across the globe. CCIH wants to help y...
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Emily Belz @emilybelz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This is also what I'm hearing from people in the field: life-saving aid that was supposed to be exempted can't restart because the funds remain frozen. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
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USAID Lifesaving Aid Remains Halted Despite Rubio’s Promise
A new directive puts further exemptions on hold. Aid workers also say the U.S. government has made it impossible to pay partners around the world.
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Kathy Erb @kathyerb.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is well done. All quotes from Republicans when they were speaking from their lived experience www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOb... @friendsofusaid.bsky.social
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Republicans Support Foreign Aid Too
YouTube video by friendsofUSAID
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Kathy Erb @kathyerb.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
In the time I've worked in the diverse sphere of Christian global health, I have never seen actions unite us as broadly as the abrupt shutdown of USAID. Thank you @emilybelz.bsky.social for this in Christianity Today with examples of impact. www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/usai...
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Is This the End of USAID? - Christianity Today
Christian partners around the world—suddenly fired, defunded, and without answers—worry that the new administration is done with the development agency.
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Emily Belz @emilybelz.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
New statement from ELWA Hospital, a mission hospital in Liberia that was at the forefront of Ebola care - viral load testing has stopped. Pediatric supplies exhausted.
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