Talking to delegates it strikes me how many LMICs are *only* interested in the #PandemicTreaty if it solves the access to medical countermeasures problem. For real. HIC negotiators either seem to not understand this or they just don’t care. Institutionalist thinking 🤔

First routine vaccinations with R21, the second approved malaria vaccine, today: reuters.com/business/healt… Congrats to all of the teams involved (and esp to Katharine Collins)!

The vulnerabilities in US pandemic preparedness & response are structural

Nevermind the dog whistle. Trump’s spelling it out with a megaphone.

Exciting partnership across governments, industry, philanthropy & communities to end childhood lead poisoning. Powerful call to action from First Lady Melania Trump USAID UNICEF Open Philanthropy & so many others & announcement of new multi-donor fund to supercharge work to end lead poisoning by 2040.

We loved Gabrielle Emanuel's story on the public health detectives tracking down global lead contamination: npr.org/sections/goats… And we're glad to see the Lead Exposure Action Fund get a shout-out!

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It was a great discussion and so fun to reconnect with fellow travelers! Thanks MFAN News for all that you do.

This is *catastrophic.* Lifesaving programs will stop, we'll lose valuable staff expertise, and the bureacratic chaos will be epic. Worst of all: we'll renege on our commitments. Shock and awe like this might be good for a sound bite, but it's bad geopolitics.

Specifics here from Atul Gawande on the damage done here. Bottom line: people will die, alliances will be shredded, and the US will be less safe.

What is the impact of PEPFAR funding being stopped? Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEID) faculty Brooke Nichols & colleagues built a live tracker on the estimated real time & long-term impact on premature deaths associated with this funding gap. Each number is a human being. pepfarimpact.vercel.app

This thread. And since we all have such short memories, read about the last time we had ONE case of Ebola in the U.S. It endangers Americans when we disengage. nytimes.com/2014/10/24/nyr….

InterAction Jeremy Konyndyk Tom Hart The Dispatch Sounds like destroying USAID is a good thing.

NEW: On CNN we played numerous examples of Rubio praising foreign aid/USAID as vital to American interests. We also revealed a letter he wrote to Biden in 2022 suggesting USAID's budget needed to be increased to counter Chinese Community Party influence around the globe. Rubio is

“What we have now is this insane Elon Musk-led mafia takeover, where patriotic American citizens who work for USAID in some of the most dangerous places in the world are being stripped of their job and insulted by the president of the United States, while we’re shooting ourselves

Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

After hearing that some orgs are getting reversal notices of program terminations, some are now getting RECALLS of those reversals. One organization got a stop work order, then a waiver, then a termination, then a termination reversal, then a note that the reversal was in error.

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