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It’s time to talk about vaccines in Africa, where it's estimated that in 2023 they saved 1.8 million lives, nearly half the global figure of 4.2 million – largely thanks to the 'Big Catch-Up,' from WHO, UNICEF, Gavi and partner governments.
In related news, Mali has become the 20th African country to introduce a vaccine for malaria and the first to implement a hybrid approach: children will receive the first three doses based on age, with the fourth and fifth doses administered seasonally ahead of the high malaria transmission season. #vaccines #Africa #health #globalhealth #world #news https://www.afro.who.int/news/vaccination-progress-helps-save-millions-lives-african-region
WHO | Regional Office for AfricaVaccination progress helps save millions of lives in African regionAn increase in vaccine coverage in Africa is helping protect millions of people from life-threatening diseases such as measles, polio and cervical cancer.
Who put science in isolation? 
The NIH is temporarily halting funding to international research labs and hospitals. Because nothing says "fighting global diseases" like going solo, right? Thousands of vital health projects now in limbo. #GlobalHealth #SciencePolicy
news.slashdot.orgNIH To Suspend Funds For Research Abroad As It Overhauls Policy, Report Says - SlashdotNature: A forthcoming policy from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will target - and at least temporarily stop -- funding to laboratories and hospitals outside the United States, threatening thousands of global-health projects and international collaborations on topics such as emerging inf...
Dieser kleine Pieks rettet Leben – die Malaria-Impfung ist da!
Vor allem auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent bedroht die #Malaria nach wie vor Millionen Menschenleben. Aber: Nach jahrzehntelanger, auch vom #BMBF unterstützter Forschung, steht auch dort der erste zugelassene Impfstoff zur Verfügung. Ein großer Durchbruch für die globale Gesundheit – doch die Arbeit geht weiter!
We Don't Talk Enough About
how businesses often generate huge profits in low-income countries by abusing a lack of regulations, often with detrimental consequences for people
Ex 1: cigarette companies
Ex 2: Nestlé https://medium.com/@hrnews1/nestl%C3%A9-how-a-corporation-killed-10-9-million-babies-740bf555194d
Medium · Nestlé: How a Corporation Killed 10.9 Million Babies and Put Their CEO in Charge of the World Economic Forum
"Gaza is a ‘killing field’ where people are being starved. How long will the world tolerate this?
What is happening is, quite simply, annihilation. Yet our politicians keep funding it and media outlets normalize it"
#Gaza #Hunger #globalHealth #Genocide #Israel
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/13/gaza-killing-starved
The Guardian · Gaza is a ‘killing field’ where people are being starved. How long will the world tolerate this?
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Die #USA ziehen sich aus der #WHO zurück – mit dramatischen Folgen für die globale #Gesundheit. Global-Health-Forscherin Beate Kampmann erklärt im Interview mit @martinruecker, was auf dem Spiel steht und warum Deutschland jetzt handeln muss. #trump #globalhealth https://www.riffreporter.de/de/wissen/who-austritt-usa-trump-globale-gesundheit-kampmann-interview
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"Americans may not agree about much, but it’s clear they are angry about the degree to which corporations constrain our choices about our health and our bodies...But just when we should be demanding more public accountability and reliability, we seem to be turning away from the idea that health is a collective endeavor, a public good at all, and retreating into the rhetoric of personal responsibility. "
: The New York Times · Opinion | Covid’s Deadliest Effect Took Five Years to Appear
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But the result has been that, in little more than a month, America has transformed itself from a preeminent #GlobalHealth leader into an untrustworthy has-been. Undermining even one of these institutions would have posed a serious threat; gutting them all at once is an invitation for future outbreaks.
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…#DOGE’s slash-&-burn campaign has hit everything from the #NIH to the National #Weather Service. The cuts to #GlobalHealth, however, are especially alarming. It’s unclear what #Musk thought would happen when he fed the #USAID “into the wood chipper,” as he proclaimed w/gleeful indifference on X, the social-media megaphone he owns. Ditto what #Trump thought when he withdrew the #US from the #WHO & effectively muzzled the #CDC.
The Diseases Are Coming
#ElonMusk’s slash-&-burn govt tear will have lasting effects on #GlobalHealth.
At #Trump’s 1st Cabinet meeting, last month, #Musk …admitted that #DOGE had “accidentally canceled very briefly” #Ebola-prevention programs. After a…chuckle, he claimed that the oversight had been swiftly corrected. But it wasn’t. The truth is far more disturbing—this admin…has actively dismantled the infrastructure…to detect & confront deadly pathogens.
The Atlantic · The Diseases Are Coming
Today is International Women’s Day!
Stop #ViolenceAgainstWomen!
#IntimatePartnerViolence cost 
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#females their lives in 2021/23 (#UN, #GBDstudy)
#InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay #GlobalHealth #GlobalGoals #SDGs #2030Agenda #WHO #IHME_UW #intimate #partner #violence #SexualViolence
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The executive director of the Global Health Impact project explains why #publichealth scholars believe closing down #USAID and leaving the #WHO will imperil national security and put millions of lives at risk. By Nicole Hassoun @binghamtonu.bsky.social #globalhealth #WHO https://buff.ly/41Aqput
US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’ https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/28/usaid-funding-health-development-hiv-aids-antiretroviral-mothers-lgbt-sex-workers-south-africa #Trumpadministration #Infectiousdiseases #Globaldevelopment #USforeignpolicy #Maternalhealth #Globalhealth #LGBTQ+rights #SouthAfrica #AidsandHIV #USpolitics #Worldnews #Eswatini #Society #Sexwork #Science #Lesotho #Africa #USnews #Health #USAid #Women #Aid
The Guardian · US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’
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#USAID supported #humanitarian & development projects in >120 countries & worked to prevent the spread of #disease & eliminate #poverty.
The #State Department said the eliminations followed a review of foreign assistance designed "to ensure taxpayer dollars were used to make America stronger, safer, & more prosperous."
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#Aid groups & advocates have been raising alarms that cuts to #USAID's programs would lead to loss of life, particularly in #humanitarian crisis zones such as #Sudan, where >1k food aid kitchens supported by USAID have closed amid widespread #starvation.
In the filing, Marocco wrote that 500 of USAID's grants were retained, but did not go into detail about which programs will be allowed to continue.
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Elisha Dunn-Georgiou, president & CEO of the #GlobalHealth Council, said the situation is "horrible." She said that even some of the programs that had received waivers for being "life saving humanitarian assistance”–including ones that provided #HIV medications–have now received termination notices.
"This is a global health #massacre," said one #humanitarian ofcl, who isn't authorized to speak on behalf of their org.
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Contractors were notified of the termination in a memo sent from #USAID's office of Acquisition & Assistance, according to one such letter obtained by NPR. The memo stated that Secy #MarcoRubio & #PeteMarocco "have determined your award is not aligned with Agency priorities & made a determination that continuing this program is not in the national interest."