Biomedical scientist who works in cancer & infectious disease life sciences biotech here: Banning US scientists from communicating with the WHO threatens humanity. Banning communication about emerging health risks like disease outbreaks & food recalls threatens humanity. 1/

My office just heard from a homeless services provider in San Diego that their funding will be paused for 90 days. They help house over 1,000 people in SD and will go under if Trump's order goes through. I'll do everything in my power to stop this unconstitutional power grab.

You need to understand that SUSPENDING funds means SUSPENDING care means SUFFERING for people that need life-saving services. You can't put medical services on pause and not KILL people. The #USG has now violated all #coreobligations under the #rightothealth and #righttoscience.

#CoreObligations means states must immediately remove barriers and violations of #humanrights. Definitely NOT triple down like the new US administration is doing right now.

Why viruses are the puppet masters of the everything: you are the new clade of avian influenza H5N1. You finally reach the American continent, killing millions of wild birds and lead to the culling of even more chicken. Egg prices rise, which looks like inflation when in fact

THIS THURSDAY: Join TAG, Housing Works, Health GAP, ACT UP + allies to protest the new administration's grotesque attack on HIV communities. Thursday, Feb. 6 @ 11 a.m. at the U.S. State Department Buses available from NYC to DC: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… SEE YOU THERE💪✊🤝

Our international partners + allies are being severely harmed by the shameful USG funding freezes.

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A survey of 153 eligible #PEPFAR funding recipients by amfAR & other advocates indicates the #FundingFreeze is having devastating effects on the global HIV response. Most lifesaving services remain paused despite the waiver: ow.ly/kL5i50V3PNY

AIDS FUNDING CUTS KILL! #PEPFAR SAVES LIVES!

"When the government fails to uphold the health and dignity of millions of people living with HIV around the world, we have a duty to disrupt business as usual." treatmentactiongroup.org/statement/anea…

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.” That’s not true, current and former officials told me and John Hudson. “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team til January.

Yesterday, Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressional mandated. They've saved millions of lives. 🧵

Administration has taken a wrecking ball to critical TB programming + services across the 🌍. We support our partners at the TB Community Coordination Hub, led by TB advocates + workers in global south, whose work has been woefully damaged by U.S. funding cuts. #RestoreTBFunding

TAG strongly opposes the nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for director of the NIH. Get the full details in our statement here: treatmentactiongroup.org/statement/trea…

March 10 is Natl Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day; seems appropriate the 69th Commission on the Status of Women in beginning today at the U.N. De’Ashia Lee ANEA Coalition Director, explains how HIV equity + reproductive justice are connected. #NWGHAAD #HIVAIDS #OWH #25to44

The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, due to declining civil liberties time.com/7266334/us-hum…

On March 10, a group of over 400 attended a rally in San Francisco (where the 2025 CROI Conference is being held): “Save Our Sciences Rally to Protect HIV Research.” This quote is from Mark Harrington, one of the speakers at the rally. medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverag…

The hallmark of tuberculosis is persistence of the bacteria. World Tuberculosis Day is a reminder that the world must persist in making steady progress against this leading killer and supporting patients and health care workers everywhere. linkedin.com/pulse/tubercul…