Big result in HIV antiviral development statnews.com/2024/06/20/hiv…

⚠️ BREAKING: Argentina 🇦🇷 quarantines ship due to a suspected Mpox case.

"Under Biden, America might be back, but it has returned with strategic national interests for which past US #globalhealth engagement is not fit for purpose." David P. Fidler's assessment of President Biden's legacy on global health in Think Global Health thinkglobalhealth.org/article/presid…

“The idea that we would have a flu pandemic anytime soon, I think the weight of that politically,economically, in terms of all of our mental health, is just too much to bear at the moment” “But right now, we dont get to be tired” via Apoorva Mandavilli on #H5n1 nytimes.com/2024/08/21/hea…

Mpox was a preventable global health emergency. Missteps and inaction have created the perfect environment for the virus to mutate into a strain that's spreading more easily between humans. Big Take from w/Janice Kew Jason Gale Antony Sguazzin Naomi Kresge bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Africa to finally receive first batch of vaccines for deadly mpox virus: The continent will belatedly get 10,000 shots amid criticism of delays to the process caused by WHO red tape theguardian.com/world/article/…

Excited to share our latest pre-print! We investigated the dosing and delivery requirements for phage therapy in a mouse wound infection model and developed a sustained phage release hydrogel dressing, with our amazing collaborators in @chaudhurilab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New tracker for #mpox vaccine donations

💉 Mpox Vaccine Commitment Tracker 📊 Really helpful resource from Think Global Health’s Chloe Searchinger and Allison Krugman Link: thinkglobalhealth.org/article/mpox-v…

Foreign debt on African continent was more than $1.1 trillion in 2023. More than two dozen countries have excessive debt or are at high risk of it Leaves less $ to address health, climate & other development needs at time when donors may be pulling back nytimes.com/2024/08/28/bus…

Pharmaceutical manufacturing output has more than tripled in Denmark amidst rising demand for Novo Nordisk's GLP-1 drugs Wegovy & Ozempic, and the nation's total manufacturing output is now up ~50% as a result

Role of China in India's supply chains complicates US efforts to de-risk 2/3 of Indian imports of electronic components come from China Over past 5 years Indian imports from China of pharmaceutical ingredients & intermediate drug products are up by +50% washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/…

A rare bit of good #globalhealth news nytimes.com/live/2024/09/0…

What is the plan to give polio vaccines to children in Gaza? - BBC bbc.com/news/articles/…

Wow 🤯👏👏👏👏

The first 100,000 doses of Bavarian Nordic's mpox vaccine arrived today in Democratic Republic of Congo. Check out TGH's tracker to see how many more doses have been pledged. thinkglobalhealth.org/article/mpox-v…

Mh, not great.

Sober, useful reporting on latest human case of #H5N1 x.com/HelenBranswell…

My latest, with some exclusive comments from Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo: We need to know where the risks in supply chains really lie (hint: they aren’t where you think) ft.com/content/e8a94c…

Interesting details on sequencing efforts for the #H5 bird flu case in Missouri from NIAID Director Jeanne Marrazzo via Alexander Tin : "The CDC... is continuing to try to sequence the relative relevant parts of what they got." "it’s almost certainly consistent with the bovine