Selma Melkich
@smelkich
Passionate about global health and human rights.🌍 Feminist💃♀️ Animal lover🐶 Pizza enthusiast. 🍕
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09-02-2015 14:04:21
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And that's a wrap!!! Participants from East and Southern Africa just had a heck of a week with patrick leblanc, Kasper de Jonge, @StephTBruno and I. I absolutely cannot wait to see what we'll do with all these new skills!!! Microsoft Power BI Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation #myskills4afrika #endAIDS
Our Lesotho Team enjoyed a #PowerBI dashboard-building training by patrick leblanc. For 5 key lessons and pics with the team, see Guy In A Cube’s video: youtube.com/watch?v=82ddX3… #MySkills4Afrika
Abortion bans aren’t just about controlling women’s bodies. They’re about controlling women’s sexuality. Owning women. From limiting birth control to banning comprehensive sex ed, US religious fundamentalists are working hard to outlaw sex that falls outside their theology.
Ultimately, this is about women’s power. When women are in control of their sexuality, it threatens a core element underpinning right-wing ideology: patriarchy. It’s a brutal form of oppression to seize control of the 1 essential thing a person should command: their own body.
.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked this pharma exec why a life-saving HIV drug costs nearly $2,000 in the U.S. and $8 in Australia
DC! Planned Parenthood Action is organizing an event outside the #SupremeCourt next Tuesday, May 21, to #StopTheBans against abortion. Let’s show up big! stopabortionbans.org
A landmark development in the fight to #endAIDS in children! Child-friendly #HIV treatment is essential and we are proud to be working with Unitaid and Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative on this child-friendly 4-in-1 ARV combination, which will be available at $1 a day. nyti.ms/2L14JQr
Inspired by panelists sharing key data and insights on cost effectiveness, patient outcomes and the promise of an #AIDSFreeGeneration across Africa The Children's Investment Fund Foundation #ICASA2019Rwanda
Off to a great start with 4-day #powerapps #workshop hosted in #Eswatini with Thomas and Sebastian from FormusPro. Can't wait to see what tools our teams build to improve data collection and support Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation's work to #endAIDS. @StephTBruno @TATTOOEDCRMGUY
A gripping account of the deaths of health care workers Nina Martin and the impact due to lack of public data ProPublica Without accurate and accessible data, we’re not only loosing time to respond, we’re loosing lives. propublica.org/article/nobody…
Remember Erin Brockovich? Did you know that much of what she did was illegal? New essay from me on why, to deepen US democracy, we need to decriminalize legal empowerment. Featuring 2 of my heroes, Erin Brockovich and Jhody Polk. democracyjournal.org/arguments/give…
In the US, it is a crime to brainstorm with a neighbor or friend on how they might use the law to solve a problem. Namati's CEO Vivek Maru makes a compelling case for reform in a new essay for Democracy Journal. democracyjournal.org/arguments/give… #RuleOfLaw #Democracy #Equality