📣 Join us 📣 16 July 2026. Book Lounge, Cape Town. Featuring:🎙 @tahiramin.bsky.social from @imakglobal.bsky.social
Congratulations to Stephanie Nolen, former Globe and Mail reporter, and now New York Times reporter, who was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada for "exposing inequities in health, conflict and social justice...and groundbreaking HIV-AIDS coverage in Africa." www.gg.ca/en/appointme...
What is the Home Affairs Minister & President doing? For goodness sake they should be bringing an urgent interdict... not entertaining unauthorised deadlines, fear. Also, court order after court order AGAINST Home Affairs that is crap at doing its job - delays in processing are known for years!
A new low for the US Embassy in SA... #MOREFUNDINGCUTS
CONGRATULATIONS FATIMA ! 🎉🎉🎉 Fatima is reimagining access to life-saving medicine by challenging the systems that treat essential healthcare as a privilege rather than a human right. Read: www.ashoka.org/en-us/fellow... #AshokaFellow #EveryoneAChangemaker #HealthJustice #AshokaAfrica @ashoka.org
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Health Justice Initiative@hji-sa.bsky.social · 3mo agoCONGRATULATIONS FATIMA ! 🎉🎉🎉 Fatima is reimagining access to life-saving medicine by challenging the systems that treat essential healthcare as a privilege rather than a human right. Read: www.ashoka.org/en-us/fellow... #AshokaFellow #EveryoneAChangemaker #HealthJustice #AshokaAfrica @ashoka.org
Wow, just wow, entire *US* NGOs, and WHO and pharma funded groups praise singing today- ignoring local demands, needs, and context of self created scarcity by Gilead. To be an ally, then be an ally... (Also, we can be relieved to have a new prevention tool, but still be critical) #lenacapavir
Fatima Hassan@fatimahassan.bsky.social · 3mo agoShameful, sad time for all of us, in what should otherwise be a time of celebration. SA Govt. 'launches' a prog. of about 37000 doses lenacapavir tomorrow, BUT we need MILLIONS of doses. Scarcity & control is self-created. Will the President take on Gilead, the pharma co. flexing all of its power?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 4 June 2026, Thursday, SAST 11h00 __________________ Launch of Lenacapavir in South Africa for HIV prevention South Africa Helped Create Lenacapavir, Gilead Should Not Decide Who Gets It – SA Civil Society Groups
Shameful, sad time for all of us, in what should otherwise be a time of celebration. SA Govt. 'launches' a prog. of about 37000 doses lenacapavir tomorrow, BUT we need MILLIONS of doses. Scarcity & control is self-created. Will the President take on Gilead, the pharma co. flexing all of its power?
Health Justice Initiative@hji-sa.bsky.social · 3mo agoFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 4 June 2026, Thursday, SAST 11h00 __________________ Launch of Lenacapavir in South Africa for HIV prevention South Africa Helped Create Lenacapavir, Gilead Should Not Decide Who Gets It – SA Civil Society Groups
Under-5 mortality of infectious diseases in 204 countries between 1990 and 2021 tp.amegroups.org/article/view... (open access) #HIV
Under-5 mortality of infectious diseases in 204 countries between 1990 and 2021
Under-5 mortality of infectious diseases in 204 countries between 1990 and 2021
tp.amegroups.org
The Overseer Class is now available wherever books are sold. To every soul who helped me write it, to every soul who pre-ordered, to every soul who *will* read and share it, to every soul who stands together in solidarity in these times, “all of us, hand in hand,” THANK YOU 🙏🏾❤️
Wait - so doctors now have a right to practise anywhere etc. but as patient I must got to a ''designated hospital'', ''designated network of doctors'', ''designated chemist'' - all decided by administrators of a medical scheme...? Make it make sense.
The LEN-LA roll out in SA for all its significance and uncritical media 'celebration' is an embarrassment - Gilead (and USG) has royally messed with South Africa. The NDoH, GFATM do not come off too great either. A trickle dose start date now only of June 2026, yes...June 2026. #lenacapavir
The destruction of US pandemic preparedness, infectious disease research, our withdrawal from WHO, is a five-alarm fire. Want something to be worried about? Should we be faced with another pandemic, we are now more vulnerable than ever. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Hantavirus Isn’t the Biggest Threat We’re Facing
The government’s destruction of our pandemic preparedness is.
thenation.com
Look...the NHI ACT STILL ALLOWS Medical Schemes to operate, in parallel. So 'NHI gevaar' is misplaced - BUT there are *other* more critical equity focused issues lacking in the Act... but big business won't talk about that.
worth reupping also that just a few weeks ago, @mattherder.bsky.social, @fatimahassan.bsky.social, Andy Hill and I argued about US driving a public health emergency of international concern in @bmj.com: www.bmj.com/content/392/...
bmj.com
Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle)@roojinhabibi.org · 5mo agoMy partner talks often of the horrific era when as a child, AIDS struck family and friends, claiming uncles, aunts, cousins, classmates. All should read this by @stephanienolen.bsky.social. We’re regressing decades into the past - needlessly, unconscionably. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...
Part 2: "Who controls South Africa’s lenacapavir rollout? Not South Africa" With African Alliance @hji-sa.bsky.social health-e.org.za/2026/04/21/w...
Part 2: "Who controls South Africa’s lenacapavir rollout? Not South Africa" With African Alliance @hji-sa.bsky.social health-e.org.za/2026/04/21/w...
'We are managing HIV with a selective lenacapavir roll-out, not ending it...' Our latest in health-e on SA's drip feed LEN-LA roll out - with @africanalliance.bsky.social - @hji-sa.bsky.social LINK: 📲 health-e.org.za/2026/04/20/m...
We Are Managing HIV With Selective Lenacapavir Roll-out, Not Ending It
Lenacapavir promised to change the course of the epidemic, but a limited, geographically selective rollout exposes a harder reality: who gets protected, who is left behind, and whether this is progres...
health-e.org.za
'We are managing HIV with a selective lenacapavir roll-out, not ending it...' Our latest in health-e on SA's drip feed LEN-LA roll out - with @africanalliance.bsky.social - @hji-sa.bsky.social LINK: 📲 health-e.org.za/2026/04/20/m...
We Are Managing HIV With Selective Lenacapavir Roll-out, Not Ending It
Lenacapavir promised to change the course of the epidemic, but a limited, geographically selective rollout exposes a harder reality: who gets protected, who is left behind, and whether this is progres...
health-e.org.za
In latest Medicine & Science @bmj.com Podcast-I join my co-author @mattherder.bsky.social & @kamranabbasi.bsky.social to discuss our recent Analysis (w. Andy Hill & @roojinhabibi.org) calling for WHO to declare USG a PHEIC also due to its 'unhinged nationalism'. 📲 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
The Trump administration is an international health emergency
Podcast Episode · Medicine and Science from The BMJ · April 17 · 51m
podcasts.apple.com
In latest Medicine & Science @bmj.com Podcast-I join my co-author @mattherder.bsky.social & @kamranabbasi.bsky.social to discuss our recent Analysis (w. Andy Hill & @roojinhabibi.org) calling for WHO to declare USG a PHEIC also due to its 'unhinged nationalism'. 📲 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
The Trump administration is an international health emergency
Podcast Episode · Medicine and Science from The BMJ · April 17 · 51m
podcasts.apple.com
3 mill for the world. You read that right. April 2026! Scandalous greed and artificial scarcity ala Gilead. 👇🏿🚨
Kerry Cullinan@kerrycullinan.bsky.social · 5mo agoOne Million More People to Get HIV ‘Miracle’ Drug #Lenacapavir as US, Global Fund Expand Access healthpolicy-watch.news/one-million-...
Well this happened- just so humbled to be alongside some of these great voices for health equity and justice in Africa. 🤲🏾✊🏾 meridianletters.com/africa-healt... #Africahealth20
Africa Health 20
Africa Health 20 is an annual editorial project highlighting 20 leaders shaping health across Africa.
meridianletters.com
ICYMI - Our analysis published in @bmj.com makes the case for @who.int to declare that the actions of the US under President Trump amount to a 'PHEIC' under the International Health Regulations. CC @roojinhabibi.org @fatimahassan.bsky.social @gavinyamey.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social
Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · 6mo agoTitle: "The United States is Driving a Public Heath Emergency of International Concern" www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Well this happened- just so humbled to be alongside some of these great voices for health equity and justice in Africa. 🤲🏾✊🏾 meridianletters.com/africa-healt... #Africahealth20
Africa Health 20
Africa Health 20 is an annual editorial project highlighting 20 leaders shaping health across Africa.
meridianletters.com
Gilead's greed knows no limits. For all the hype, here we go: About 37k doses arrived in SA in APRIL 2026 via GFATM and Gilead. YOU READ THAT RIGHT. 37k! Are we supposed to celebrate this shocking drip feed and rationing, at the epicenter...?! Outrageous. Watch this space... #lenacapavir