Health Justice Initiative
@hji-sa.bsky.social
www.healthjusticeinitiative.org.za The Health Justice Initiative (HJI) is a South African non-profit organisation working to address systemic health inequities and injustices in SA and beyond.
🚨🚨🚨 At #AIDS2026 along with @africanalliance.bsky.social -we presented our analysis of one of the most important HIV prevention breakthroughs of our generation-and one of its biggest ethical failures! *A Breakthrough Withheld: Power, Control & the Slow Rollout of Lenacapavir* #BREAKTHREPATENTS 📄
Statement from #HealthGAP @asia-ilse.bsky.social @hji-sa.bsky.social @justtreatment.org Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association, ABIA), Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust
Activists React to Merck’s Voluntary License for Generic Production of Investigational Long-Acting Oral PrEP Product, Alimatravir
Activists React to Merck’s Voluntary License for Generic Production of Investigational Long-Acting Oral PrEP Product, Alimatravir If Alimatravir is Approved, Merck’s Unethical Exclusion of Middle Inc...
healthgap.org
@unitaid.bsky.social is quietly searching for its next leader behind closed doors as calls for transparency grow. The incoming leader will inherit acute financial shortfalls and mounting pressure for institutional reform. ✍️ @fargonaut.bsky.social @gavi.org @unitaidngos.bsky.social 📖 ⬇️ & 🔁🙏
Unitaid’s Opaque Leadership Search Advances Amid Plunging Budgets, Calls For Reform - Health Policy Watch
With the recruitment process ongoing for Unitaid's next Executive Director, the market-shaping agency faces acute financial contraction and growing questions over its opaque selection process compared...
healthpolicy-watch.news
The Trump administration’s cuts to the largest global HIV program last year resulted in sharp drops in both prevention efforts and treatment for the people most at risk from the disease. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/h...
1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study Finds (Gift Article)
New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.
nytimes.com
Two competing models could shape the future of pathogen access & benefit sharing. What are the key differences between the federated & hybrid approaches, & can the #PABS annex still be completed this year? 📰➡️ & 🔁🙏 healthpolicy-watch.news/pandemic-tal... ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @afro.who.int
📣 Join us 📣 16 July 2026. Book Lounge, Cape Town. Featuring:🎙 @tahiramin.bsky.social from @imakglobal.bsky.social
June 16: South Africa belongs to all who live in it. Say no to racism, sexism xenophobia, homophobia. ✊🏾
June 16: South Africa belongs to all who live in it. Say no to racism, sexism xenophobia, homophobia. ✊🏾
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
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
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 · 2mo 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
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
Must Read:📲 For the LEN-LA roll out in South Africa, what is at stake? This 2-part series by @fatimahassan.bsky.social & Tian Johnson unpacks key issues affecting timing, pace, price, delivery, licensing & control. Part 1: health-e.org.za/2026/04/20/m... Part 2: health-e.org.za/2026/04/21/w...
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
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
SCOOP: Trump is trying to disguise a sociopathic idea as a garden variety neo-con slogan ('trade over aid'). In fact they are proposing U.S. corporations exploit poor countries as a trough they can eat from, subsidized by public funds, while eliminating lifesaving aid. Gift link: wapo.st/4tg4zI4
Trump administration pushes nations to sign ‘trade over aid’ declaration
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it an opportunity to use the U.N. system to “promote America First values,” according to a cable reviewed by The Post.
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thank you @altcdc.altgov.info Here is more about the protest: healthgap.org/press/aids-a...
AIDS Activists and Former USAID Employees Arrested Disrupting OMB Secretary Vought’s Appearance at House Budget Committee Hearing
PRESS RELEASEFor Immediate Release: April 15, 2026Contact: Asia Russell, Health GAP: (267) 475 2645 | asia@healthgap.org AIDS Activists and Former USAID Employees Arrested Disrupting OMB Secretary Vou...
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Alt CDC (they/them)@altcdc.altgov.info · 4mo agoBrave folks protesting against Russell Vought’s PEPFAR cuts at the House Budget Committee hearing this morning ❤️🔥💪 ✨Keep making noise. Keep showing up. You make a difference ✨
📣📣📣 HJI DIRECTOR, FATIMA HASSAN - RECOGNISED AMONG 20 LEADERS SHAPING HEALTH ACROSS AFRICA: 📲 meridianletters.com/africa-healt... @fatimahassan.bsky.social
📣📣📣 HJI DIRECTOR, FATIMA HASSAN - RECOGNISED AMONG 20 LEADERS SHAPING HEALTH ACROSS AFRICA: 📲 meridianletters.com/africa-healt... @fatimahassan.bsky.social
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.
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HJI sends it condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Stephen Lewis. Today, the world lost a social justice warrior and HIV Tx champion. Rest in Power, Stephen. ✊🏾🤲🏾 @theslf.org
🌍 Worried about the impact US policy has had on global health? 📖 Read this timely analysis from GSL Global Health Law Director, @roojinhabibi.org and co-authors @mattherder.bsky.social, Fatima Hassan, and Andrew Hill.
Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle)@roojinhabibi.org · 4mo agoNow out in @bmj.com: With @mattherder.bsky.social, Fatima Hassan & Andrew Hill, we argue that the Trump administration’s deliberate assault on global health should be treated as a public health emergency of international concern under international law. www.bmj.com/content/392/...
ICYMI. THE US IS DRIVING A PHEIC.
Health Justice Initiative@hji-sa.bsky.social · 4mo agoMUST READ: 'The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern' @mattherder.bsky.social @fatimahassan.bsky.social A Hill and @roojinhabibi.org Via @bmjmedicine.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF
Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.
doctorswithoutborders.org
I've walked thru the economic logic here, but Gilead obviously does not say this out loud. They don't really have a good reason not to sell to MSF, which is why they landed on negotiating supply contracts is "a lot of work" (actual thing they said). 13/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/preve...
Open letter to Gilead: Prevention should not be a privilege
MSF calls on Gilead for direct access to lenacapavir, as the current rollout falls far short of the needs.
doctorswithoutborders.org
Doctors Without Borders calls Gilead ‘unconscionable’ for refusing to sell HIV prevention drug to organization.. statnews.com/pharmalot/20... #pharma #HIV #AIDS #pharma #Gilead
Doctors Without Borders calls Gilead 'unconscionable' for refusing to sell HIV prevention drug to organization
The move came after months of talks in which Doctors Without Borders asked Gilead Sciences for a “limited” supply of lenacapavir.
statnews.com
I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.
The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital
Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.
wired.com
