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Partners In Health @pih.org · 04/06/2025

Congress is weighing massive cuts to global health funding—including PEPFAR and UNICEF. These programs save millions of lives. Cutting them now would be catastrophic. Here’s what you need to know—and how to take action. 👇

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

“Flying blind”: RFK Jr.’s cuts halt data collection on abortion, cancer rates in firefighters, HIV, and more - POLITICO Since when is data the enemy? Completely irrational.

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TBFighters @tbfighters.org · 10/04/2025

#TBHillDay has been an incredible success with an impact we can only imagine! We're so thankful to everyone who joined us in DC or virtually to help us speak with over TWO HUNDRED congressional offices about #Tuberculosis funding!

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"Public health depends on public trust. When that trust is broken, when people start to see vaccines as personal choices without regard to public health — or, worse, as threats — diseases like measles come roaring back." @michaelmina.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

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Opinion | I Study Measles. I’m Terrified We’re Headed for an Epidemic. (Gift Article)

The outbreak in Texas could become much, much worse.

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The brutal attacks on Mirebalais threaten one of Haiti’s most critical hospitals. If Mirebalais falls, Haiti’s health system faces collapse. Hundreds of thousands will be left without life-saving care #ZanmiLasante.The world must act NOW. #Haiti #Mirebalais @partnersinhealth.bsky.social

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Wowsa! Thank you @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social for illuminating the need for TB to be eradicated, finally!

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

U.S. pulls back $12 billion in funding to state health departments - Reuters Short sighted in SO many ways. Did we learn nothing from COVID?

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 21/03/2025

🌍✨ “It felt like the world no longer existed.” After an MDR-TB diagnosis, Lerato Mpholo battled both illness and deep depression and found hope through holistic care. So proud to share her story ahead of #WorldTBDay 🫁💙 #EndTB #MentalHealthMatters #Lesotho 🔗 Read more: pihcanada.org/news/healing...

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Partners In Health @pih.org · 21/03/2025

(🧵) Today, we mourn the loss of Donna Barry, PIH’s first director of advocacy, a fearless champion for health justice, and a leader in global nursing. Donna helped shape PIH’s advocacy efforts by fighting for global health funding, women’s health, and stronger health systems.

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get Worse - The Atlantic “estimated that cases MDRTB will rise by about 30% in the next few years, an unprecedented regression in the history of humankind’s fight against the disease.” Excellent article by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/03/2025

In two weeks, the Trump admin abruptly canceled nearly 10,000 global development contracts, upending programs that offer food to children and lactating mothers in Haiti, clean water to tens of thousands in Colombia, etc.

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Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Cut Off Funds for Severely Malnourished Toddlers

"If we can't treat them, they have a very high risk of dying."

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Partners In Health @pih.org · 11/03/2025

Our 𝙄𝙣 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 newsletters highlight the life-saving work PIH supporters make possible. From advances in #TB care to celebrating 10 years in West Africa and much more, read it all in our winter newsletter today: bit.ly/3FmAMJG

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This is happening…shameful, immoral and short sighted. @stephanienolen.bsky.social is reporting the truth of this man-made disaster.

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I recommend hating tuberculosis. It has fueled me like no other hate that came before.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11/03/2025

“If the state can deprive an individual of his freedom simply because of his politics, which is what appears to have happened [to Mahmoud Khalil], then no one is safe,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes: theatln.tc/87FfKC8B

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Everyday I wake up and think… maybe today sanity will return, not today again.

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Oxfam America @oxfamamerica.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Marco Rubio’s announcement that he has cut 83% of #USAID activities means children and families will no longer have the food, clean water, healthcare, education and much more that they need to survive and build their futures.

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

“about a million additional people will die terrible deaths every single year for the foreseeable future if PEPFAR doesn’t get reversed” www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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Killing PEPFAR means killing millions of people

All to save 0.08 percent of the budget.

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

U.S. immigration agents arrest Palestinian student protester at Columbia University - Reuters What has this country become?

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

In response to the comment that was made during the US Presidential address last night…..”nobody has heard of Lesotho” @partnersinhealth.bsky.social

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

How am I feeling? It's summed up in this conversation with @madhupai.bsky.social: "I think hope is the correct response to the miracle of human consciousness. I am concerned (and discouraged) in the face of our historical moment. But I refuse to respond with despair." www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

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John Green Tackles An Injustice Called Tuberculosis

With his new book 'Everything Is Tuberculosis,' celebrity author John Green is breathing new life into tuberculosis advocacy

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Devex @devex.com · 27/02/2025

Ugandan officials appear to have largely contained an outbreak of Ebola virus but did so without the same level of support they have previously received from the U.S. government.

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US delayed assistance to Uganda’s Ebola response

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IDSA @idsainfo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

"Without WHO data now, we don't have the ability to track [diseases] as we had before...diseases that are in Africa can quickly come to our shores,” says IDSA member Yukari Manabe, MD, FIDSA. Our press briefing explores the implications of U.S. funding cuts for global health: bit.ly/4icpOo2

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u... Speechless. “Several aid workers and USAID officials said that at least some money for PEPFAR, had been eliminated, including for elements of the program that were previously deemed essential lifesaving work and exempted from the aid freeze.”

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Supreme Court Blocks Judge’s Order to Quickly Unfreeze Foreign Aid Work Payments

Administration lawyers had said the government would miss the judge’s deadline to restart payments for past aid work and sought a late intervention from the Supreme Court.

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This is absurd and clear our country is for sale to the highest bidder. So much for “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”. Statue of Liberty coming down next I predict.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Infectious diseases don’t stay put and they don’t take breaks. US-funded systems that work to stop outbreaks of deadly diseases like Ebola can’t be simply be toggled on and off like a light switch. Lapses have consequences. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Elon Musk Says DOGE 'Accidentally Canceled' Ebola Prevention

Elon Musk made alarming comments about Ebola prevention measures during President Donald Trump's first Cabinet meeting.

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

time.com/7258248/us-f... “ But we were given no warning when the programs that support the care of sick and hungry children were sacrificed on the altar of “efficiency” in one harsh, abrupt stroke. Seeming indifference, from the American people.”

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What Gutting USAID Means for My Young Patients in Burundi

“To my patients and their mothers, I offered apologies from the American people,” writes Dr. Jennifer Furin.

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Dangerous and cruel for no reason.

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 22/02/2025

❌ What if your access to birth control, safe abortions, and maternal care disappeared overnight? That’s the reality for millions due to the Global Gag Rule 🚨 📢 Learn how this policy is threatening women’s health & rights ⬇️ 🔗 buff.ly/4bbqkAl #ReproductiveJustice #HealthForAll #GlobalHealth

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Decades of life saving research being stopped, to “save” taxpayer’s money? NOT true and even if it was, I’d save a life not the money.

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

PIH will stand with our Haitian staff, family and communities.

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The Governor Who Stood Up to Trump - The Atlantic I am proud to be from Maine, thank you Gov Janet Mills.

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TBFighters @tbfighters.org · 21/02/2025

It is false to suggest - as some recently have - that the Kansas #Tuberculosis outbreak is the largest in US history, let alone the largest in the last decade. The CDC only began recording cases in the 1950s, by which point TB was treatable. apnews.com/article/tube...

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The tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas is alarming. It's not the biggest in US history though, CDC says

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state healt...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Bravo @plos.org! US exec orders "stand in direct conflict with our core values, our mission, edit policies" "PLOS will not compromise on issues of scientific rigor & editorial integrity... we seek diversity because more expert voices make for better science" theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos...

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PLOS statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity - The Official PLOS Blog

Since its founding over twenty five years ago PLOS has been dedicated to advancing open science, ensuring that knowledge is accessible to…

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It boggles my mind that this is unfolding in the United States: moms and babies are dying because of abortion bans www.propublica.org/article/texa... www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

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Sheila Davis @sheila-davisdnp.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Three years since we lost our North Star, Dr. Paul Farmer, but PIH continues to fight the fight for health equity and social justice.

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Partners In Health @pih.org · 21/02/2025

Introducing The Good News Room! ✨🌍 Inspired by Dr. Paul Farmer’s vision, this series highlights health care wins, frontline workers, and patient stories in places where health equity is being advanced. Because good news in global health deserves to be told.

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Partners In Health @pih.org · 20/02/2025

Health Justice Calls are back! 📢 Join us for an intersectional conversation on what a movement for health justice looks like in today’s political reality. Event date & time 🗓️: Feb 25, 2025 | 1 PM ET⁠ ⁠ RSVP now: pih.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

“It’s a very unsettling moment for science:" Prestigious #NIH grant program meant to support PhD students from marginalized backgrounds is shelved to comply with the anti-DEI policy of the Trump administration. @usha.bsky.social & @aniloza.bsky.social report. www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/t...

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NIH scraps program to diversify the biomedical workforce, a longtime goal of science

Applications for a prestigious NIH grant that supports Ph.D. students from marginalized backgrounds are not being funded

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Craig Spencer MD MPH @craigspencer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

From @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social If you haven’t yet seen this short video, you must. Absolutely essential framing to understand and respond to this moment. youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s

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Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

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Craig Spencer MD MPH @craigspencer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

They’re scrubbing the name from the building Mark my words—we will regret this

Person removing USAID name from its headquarters building

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