Not for the first time, US, Israel, North Korea and Russia line up on the same side on human rights

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2w ago

US, alongside Argentina, Burkina Faso, North Korea, Israel, Mali, Niger, Nicaragua, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago voted AGAINST the approval of the appointment of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for a term from 12 October 2026 until 11 October 2030 See the vote and quote below ⬇️

Last week, Abdullahi Tsanni wrote in BMJ about the Trump health deals and pathogen access and benefit sharing. In his article I urge African governments to enact domestic laws on PABS - www.bmj.com/content/394/...

African countries “under pressure” signed Trump’s America First health deal—and few rejected it

Severe external funding cuts have left many African nations forced to sign new transactional health aid agreements with the US. Abdullahi Tsanni asks if these countries can get the benefits and still ...

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Fascinating webinar by @gvagrad.bsky.social on data sharing in Ebola & Hantavirus outbreaks. E Hodcroft stated that registration for databases can prevent equity because not everyone has certifiable IDs and driving licenses etc per EU standards. My view is that databases need to make the effort.

Diagnostics are critical to controlling #Ebola. But major challenges remain: • Unreliable electricity and power supply • Limited lab capacity and trained personnel • Insecurity making sample transport and access difficult Diagnostics require infrastructure, logistics, and sustained investment.

CORRECTION: The war is not costing the US tens of billions of dollars. That’s just the price tag of missiles fired & hardware smashed. The actual cost to the US is *hundreds* of billions, and very possibly *thousands* of billions. Justin Wolfers has crunched the numbers.

Maniacal, but sadly what we have come to with increasing anti-intellectualism.

Mallory Harris, PhD@malar0ne.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our current Acting CDC Director said his entire plan for pandemic preparedness is to fire everyone responsible for it.

What would we do without the @who.int? I hope American republicans and Argentinians who were supportive of their country’s exit reflect on what’s happening with Hantavirus and why WHO is so critical to keep all of us safe.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus@drtedros.who.int · 3mo ago

I just spoke with Dr Freddy Banza, the @who.int staff still on board of MV Hondius, and captain Jan Dobrogowski to get the latest updates. I used the opportunity to express my appreciation @ecdc.europa.eu and the Dutch medical teams on board. #hantavirus

Reviewing a journal article by an extremely senior well-known global health person and the referencing is atrocious. Absolute garbage. The academic in me is screaming. Please do not use your stature to avoid using Zotero or Endnote properly.

As a Malaysian I am utterly embarrassed that given our GDP we are providing only a paltry amount to @who.int. Ensuring you have a seat at the table, can agenda-set, and can influence global decisions is not guaranteed merely by being a WHO member state. Money talks and translates into power.

Thiru Balasubramaniam@thirugeneva.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Saudi Arabia: $85,206,942 Norway: $54,304,040 Netherlands: $44,575,011 UAE: $34,788,138 Pakistan: $3,636,208 Indonesia: $3,591,584 Nigeria: $3,486,754 Qatar: $2,000,000 South Africa: $1,000,000 Thailand: $402,853 Ukraine: $148,515 Sri Lanka: $75,000 Malaysia: $25,000 Mexico: $10,000

Please, please give your newborn a Vitamin K shot.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 3mo ago

NEW: Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

Gentle reminder to my global health colleagues developing policy briefs: please date your documents. It is absolutely shocking how many policy briefs there are out there with no dates. It’s maddening.

HPV vaccination cuts cancer risk in men by about half, study suggests www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

HPV vaccination cuts cancer risk in men by about half, study suggests

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I’ll say this again and again. Countries need to preemptively enact domestic ABS laws in case this initiative fails.

WHO@who.int · 3mo ago

Member States of WHO progressed work on the Pathogen Access & Benefit Sharing (PABS) annex, a key part of the WHO #PandemicAgreement, & today agreed additional time was needed to finalize the framework for ensuring a better, more equitable, response to future pandemics. www.who.int/news/item/01...

Great to hear Guillaume Long, senior diplomatic advisor to The Hague Group & former minister of culture /Ecuador, on how “fear has been the greatest obstacle” to The Hague Group work - especially by Member States who fear how engagement may impact their relationships with the United States. #webinar

And the so called civilised west turns a blind eye. Again

Esheru@esherukweku.bsky.social · 3mo ago

While it’s great that Laos has received money from the Pandemic Fund for pandemic preparedness, I do wish The World Bank would make it easier for us to understand who from Laos is involved in the project and who best to invite for meetings. www.thepandemicfund.org/projects/adv...

WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

This is a comprehensive investigation of patent abuse of a Keytruda & the best I've ever seen patent data visualisation of evergreening practices and the resulting thicket until 2046 - another extra twenty years of patent monopoly right h/t @clancyny.bsky.social

How Merck uses patents to help maintain Keytruda's exorbitant price - ICIJ

Explore the U.S. patents Merck deploys to stymie competition and keep revenues for its blockbuster cancer drug flowing as long as possible.

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ICIJ@icij.org · 4mo ago

#CancerCalculus: An ICIJ-led collaboration with 47 media partners in 37 countries reveals how Merck & Co. keeps the price of its lifesaving cancer drug Keytruda sky-high, locking out patients and squeezing health care systems worldwide. www.icij.org/investigatio...

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What can stop Israel?

Lina Mounzer@warghetti.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

Who cares about brown Jews though, right? Infuriating.

Trita Parsi@tparsi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Members of the Iranian Jewish community inspect what is left of their synagogue in Tehran after Israel bombed it. On Passover...

Did not think that I would be worrying about an entire civilisation being wiped out. Agreeing with @drtedros.who.int today that peace is the best medicine. May we see sense - and may we work every day on the shifting of the world order towards one that still prioritises the rule of law.

There are a few things in life that I hate and the genocidal state of Israel is one of them. The second thing is probably people whatsapping to tell me they have emailed.

The theatre that is Arab leaders saying the Arab League is weak while in the same breath failing to acknowledge that it is Israel, not Iran, that is destabilising the region, is the core reason that the Arab League will continue to be weak. Continuing to fellate the U.S. will bring you nowhere safe.

The "Hybrid PABS System" proposal - Yesterday, word of a "compromise" solution made the rounds of #IGWG6 - I am not sure how much traction this received.

Absolutely disgusting and abhorrent.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Gavin Newsom confirms he is a Zionist. He says he “reveres the State of Israel” and is “proud to support the State of Israel.” He also says he regrets using the word apartheid to describe Israel and clarifies he was only channeling Tom Friedman’s concerns about where Israel was headed under Bibi..

If there’s anything Iran and Gaza have taught global south peoples is that Western morality is fragile and two-faced, and that building defence systems to mitigate for another catastrophic failure of western morality is necessary.

Everything is legal if the victims are brown.

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEW: Ministers have approved the use of UK bases for the US to launch strikes on Iranian sites targeting the Strait of Hormuz

Absolute insanity. The impact of problematic migration policies on health.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 5mo ago

So many stories like this. One I witnessed, just because I happened to be in the building, was a child in agonizing dental pain but unable to to safely get to or pay for a dentist without fear of abduction, as desperate school personnel searched for ways to help. www.reuters.com/world/us/min...

Why do I not know any of the little girl’s names from Minab? Why do I not know what poems those little girls studied, the names of their mums? The dreams they had. Somebody tell me so I can remember them for the rest of my life. 💔