“Even countries that have been successful in keeping AMR rates under control cannot afford to be complacent. Unless AMR programs are protected from aid cuts, resistance rates will likely increase. @mcdonnell.bsky.social discusses the tool in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Superbugs could kill millions more and cost $2tn a year by 2050, models show

Exclusive: Research on burden of antibiotic resistance for 122 countries predicts dire economic and health outcomes

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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health crisis that threatens to undo decades of progress in medicine. @cgdev.org has launched a new, interactive web tool that estimates the economic impact of AMR in 122 different countries. Explore: www.cgdev.org/media/foreca...

ICARS' Executive Director, Sujith J. Chandy, recently joined @Kevin Outterson, @carb-x.bsky.social, Misbah Khan, @tbij.bsky.social, and Anthony McDonnell, @cgdev.org, for an interesting discussion on designing an effective Independent Panel on #AMR. 🔗Read more about the side-event at #WHA76 ⬇️

ICARS joins the global dialogue on establishing an independent panel for evidence for action on AMR – ICARS

On May 21st, the International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions (ICARS) participated  in a high-level event, From Evidence to Action: Designing an Effective Independent Panel on Antimicro...

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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 2y ago

Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children. He's a eugenicist. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“Pepfar has saved more than 26 million lives and prevented roughly 1,000 babies a day from being born with the HIV virus” Superb piece on how cuts to USAID will affect the world’s poorest, focusing on HIV on.ft.com/3QX1HhP

I've written a blog post looking at how US AID cuts could impact drug resistance to TB drugs, and intern then negative long term consequences this could have for Americans. www.cgdev.org/blog/tubercu...

Tuberculosis Doesn’t Respect Borders—US Aid Cuts Could Fuel a Global Health Crisis

Reducing access to vital treatments against drug-resistant TB will likely pose huge risks for everyone, including Americans. The 90-day freeze on most aid while this assessment is carried out causes r...

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer just cut the UK aid budget from 0.5% of GNI to 0.3% in 2027 to fund increases in defence spending. He says he’s making tough choices, but cutting funding for the world’s poorest people is the easiest—and cruellest—choice he could make (1/4)

For as long as Democratic Europe has been united, we've been able to rely on America's for support. That is no longer true, and as @gideonrachman.bsky.social argues policies must change. "Europe must now start the painful process of “de-risking” its relationship with the US."

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Many Europeans will balk at these ideas, dismissing them as impossible. But they need to understand that their freedom is now at stake. Vance was right about that. Just not in the way he thought." - brilliant column by @gideonrachman.bsky.social:

We already see the shutdown's cost. Kids with drug-resistant TB, turned away from clinics, are not just dying - they're spreading the disease. People around the world w HIV, denied their medicine, will soon start transmitting virus. The damage is global.

The WHO plays a vital role in so many areas of global health, it reduces the risk of pandemics, enables sharing of scientific expertise & provides some essential services. After US cuts, please consider giving them a dollar (or more) to keep going #WHO ❤️ whofoundation.donorsupport.co/page/FUNEKRB...

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I have been at WHO for over 10 years. Like my colleagues, I have worked my butt off day and night to fight Covid and work towards universal access to health care. This place frustrates me every day.

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USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

CDC brings so much expertise to projects that include the WHO. Engaging with the WHO enables the CDC to better understand and prepare America for others are dealing with aka Mpox. Everybody loses here, except maybe America's advisories who'll seek to fill any vacuum www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/c...

CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.

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Exactly this. Reviewing foreign aid for consistency w/admin policy goals is reasonable. Many programs can absorb a 90 day pause w/o catastrophic impact. But a real stop work on bi-partisan malaria & HIV programs--delivering lifesaving medicines & bednets--quite literally means people will die.

Charles Kenny@charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 2y ago

Glad to read there has been a waiver for emergency food aid, but the same has to urgently apply to other programs providing life-saving support where 90 days could be too late: PEPFAR, PMI... www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Trump has not just paused new foreign aid. Today Marco Rubio sent a cable to all US diplomatic missions calling for immediate “stop work” orders on *existing* projects. This is sweeping and reckless. People are going to die.

I will be giving an LSE lecture on the economics of antimicrobial resistance at 6pm today. The event is virtual, and you can register below. Hope to see you there. lse.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Most Republicans seem to see China as America's biggest threat. If this is the case, then even from an America First stand point, it seems very short sighted to abandon the world's poorest and create a vacuums for China to fill. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump suspends US foreign assistance for 90 days pending reviews

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order temporarily suspending all U.S. foreign assistance programs for 90 days pending reviews to determine whether they are aligned with his policy goals...

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Seriously grim. Breaks my heart that fellow Jews can't see the obvious parallels. Even if in their own self-interest. A world of hatred based on identity never works out well for us.

It will be a degrees warmer than JFK's, 2 degrees colder than Obama's first and Carters. All of which were outside. Ulysses Grant managed on what is still the coldest March day on record. It will be ten degrees warmer and far less windy than Reagan's second inauguration the only other one inside.

Conference organiser: "Please share your most recent high-resolution headshot" Anthony: "This photo I really like from April 2018 is definitely my most recent right?"

With Trump's inauguration just days away, many people are worried about what his second term will mean for global reproductive rights. In a new blog, my colleagues and I argue that the UK should step up to champion family planning and reproductive rights: www.cgdev.org/blog/trumps-...

20 years ago, a teacher told that a child had been conceived using two eggs, and no sperm. I asked if it would work using only sperm and what would happen if a child got two Y genes. Some kids ridiculed me thinking the question implied I was gay, our teacher led the mocking. Things changed fast.

New CGD event! On Jan. 29, experts will explore the impact of AMR on up to 140 different countries, as part of a new, interactive data visualization tool.💊 Ft: Prof Dame Sally Davies, Tim Laurence, Amanda Countryman, and Anthony McDonnell. RSVP to join us ⬇ bit.ly/40vholF

Terrific column - also highlights one absurdity among many of the calls for a further inquiry: the people doing so will openly admit that they “know” what the problem is and some will even say precisely what extreme means should follow from this knowledge - yet their call is another inquiry.

Duncan Robinson@duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 2y ago

Column on how means conquered ends www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Jimmy Carter’s legacy is immense, but one moment stands out: seeing a woman in Ghana, incapacitated by Guinea worm, he vowed to fight the disease. Thanks in large part to his efforts, cases dropped from millions in the 1980s to near eradication. A true champion of global health. Rest in peace.

The reason the UK has the highest tax rates in 70 years and crumbling public services is in large part due to a lack of growth over the last 16 years. We shouldn't back growth at all costs, but it's disingenuous to say that it won't benefit struggling communities, who need public services most.

Natalie Bennett@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Growth for whom? Who will benefit? Not children in poverty or financially struggling communities

New @cgdev.org policy paper: *MALARIA VACCINES* are a huge scientific breakthrough. But the world is dragging its feet on rolling them out. We examine why, and how to go faster. 🧵

i just.... it's literally the polio vaccine. how can you be on team polio

I will be giving a lecture at LSE on the economic burden of antimicrobial resistance on the 21st of January, followed by a discussion with Michael Anderson and Elias Mossialos. It's a virtual event and you can register here. lse.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Hope to see you there. #LSEhealth

Really interesting study on the impact of COVID-19 vaccines on reducing long COVID in Children. With a 60% reduction of long covid amongst 5-11 year olds, and a 75% among adolescents. Benefits were higher again before Omicron.

Prof Jeffrey S Morris@jsm2334.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just publish paper evaluating effects of vaccination on long COVID risks in children/adolescents during Delta/Omicron periods We found vaccines strongly protected against long COVID-19, and the effect was almost wholly mediated by reduced infection risk www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For a British minister (Kemi Badenoch) to block a grant to a Northern Irish band, for being proudly Irish. Is a breaches all the norms and laws created during the Northern Irish peace process. It's sectarian and arguably racist. Glad the new government has changed course. www.rte.ie/news/2024/11...

Kneecap win case over 'unlawful' UK govt funding block

Irish language rap group Kneecap has won its discrimination case against former Conservative minister Kemi Badenoch.

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In 2012 Ireland’s abortion laws killed Savita Halappanavar. I’ve never been so ashamed to be Irish. But it sparked conversation, 2013 the law was improved and in 2018 66% of people voted to remove our ban. I don’t understand why reality of total abortion bans isn’t swaying more people in the USA.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2y ago

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all. Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.