I also appreciate Emily Wilson as a woman in a male dominated role, by which I don’t mean translator or classicist or public scholar but rather “curmudgeon.”
Stephanie Nolen
@stephanienolen.bsky.social
Global health reporter, The New York Times. Former correspondent in South Asia, Africa, Latin America and the MidEast. Author, 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa; Promised the Moon. Baker. Canoe tripper. Disease nerd. Lover of a fat novel and Earl Grey tea.
Ebay’s harassment spree against a perfectly nice couple in Massachusetts is one of the craziest stories I’ve ever covered. Six years later, the victims have finally gotten their due. from @laurengoode.bsky.social
Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment Campaign
For months on end, eBay employees and contractors made life hell for a couple that had criticized the company. Six years later, the company is finally paying up.
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NYT: With Hopes High for New H.I.V. Prevention Pill, Merck Takes Steps to Ensure Access By Stephanie Nolen @nytimes.com @stephanienolen.bsky.social nyti.ms/4h07K3i
With Hopes High for New H.I.V. Prevention Pill, Merck Takes Steps to Ensure Access
Companies in Africa and India will make generic versions of the pill that could cost as little as $5 per person per year. But access to the drug and other new products in much of Latin America remains...
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Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)
In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.
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How Bad Could the Ebola Outbreak Get? Here Are 5 Key Factors. Contact tracing is improving. Treatments may be months away. Here’s what could determine whether a fast-expanding outbreak can be slowed down. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... via @nytimes.com @stephanienolen.bsky.social
How Bad Could the Ebola Outbreak Get? Latest on Testing, Tracing and Vaccines
Contact tracing is improving. Treatments may be months away. Here’s what could determine whether a fast-expanding outbreak can be slowed down.
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A generic version of a breakthrough cystic fibrosis drug, manufactured in Bangladesh for a fraction of the American price, may give some families around the world an unlikely lifeline. (unlocked) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/h...
Loophole in Patent Law Brings ‘Miracle Drug’ to Patients Who Can’t Afford It
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Scientists Race to Test Treatments as Ebola Outbreak Widens Trials are beginning on several drugs that have shown promise in preliminary studies against the virus that is causing the current outbreak. @carlzimmer.com and @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/h...
Scientists Race to Test Treatments as Ebola Outbreak Widens
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As the Bundibugyo outbreak continues to grow, researchers are scrambling to start clinical trials of antivirals and monoclonal antibodies to see if any work against the virus. Here's my story on the race, with @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4eEZHqR
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A Powerful Drug Which Protects People from HIV Infection Has Landed in Zambia. But Will It Reach Those Who Need It? Lenacapavir arrives at a time when the health system has been hollowed out by American aid cuts, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/h... via @nytimes.com
A Powerful H.I.V. Drug Lands in Zambia. But Will It Reach Those Who Need It?
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A chronic lack of investment in development of better tests has left clinicians blind and allows deadly viruses to spread unchecked. @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/h...
Only the Right Tests Can Stop This Ebola Outbreak. Congo Has Hardly Any.
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appreciate @stephanienolen.bsky.social and @carlzimmer.com ending the article with this important history on ebola drug access
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2mo agoAs the Bundibugyo outbreak continues to grow, researchers are scrambling to start clinical trials of antivirals and monoclonal antibodies to see if any work against the virus. Here's my story on the race, with @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4eEZHqR
The World Has Learned From the Last Ebola Outbreak, but Gaps Remain. The vaccine development process and coordination between health organizations have improved since a devastating 2014-2016 outbreak, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/w... via @nytimes.com
The World Has Learned From the Last Ebola Outbreak, but Gaps Remain
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Surprise not-everything-is-terrible news: While there is justifiable fear and frustration with the current Ebola response in East Africa, there are also some signs the world has learned some things. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/w...
The World Has Learned From the Last Ebola Outbreak, but Gaps Remain
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Another important read by @stephanienolen.bsky.social. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/h... And as our ED said last week at #WHA79, "We're introducing [lenacapavir] on what should have been a foundation of stone, but instead we're introducing it on a foundation of sand.” www.devex.com/news/the-pro...
A Powerful H.I.V. Drug Lands in Zambia. But Will It Reach Those Who Need It?
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Incredibly proud of my @bloomberg.com colleagues, who won a Pulitzer today for illustrated reporting for the graphic novel version of an incredible, harrowing story about “digital arrest” scams in India. Gift link to the graphic novel, will thread the feature below: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Arrested by Phone: A Graphic Novel
No texting. No visitors. No escape. She was caught in India’s new digital nightmare.
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University Health Network recruits senior NIH investigator, more than 70 global scientists, as part of campaign to attract 100 early- to mid-career scientists from other countries, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com @uhn.ca
University Health Network recruits senior NIH investigator, more than 70 global scientists
Campaign to attract best and brightest aims to bring in 100 early- to mid-career scientists from other countries
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A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!
For @codastory.com, Isobel Cockerell typed two words into the search function of the Epstein files. What she found was a tangled skein of sex and eugenics stretching across tech and academia. As dark as it all has been, this is a new shade of bleak.
"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology - Coda Story
The Epstein files reveal beliefs about race, eugenics, and engineering humans that run to the heart of Silicon Valley.
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Meticulous piece by @stephanienolen.bsky.social tracking the human impact of US aid cuts to HIV in Zambia No tracing means contacts aren't tested No health workers mean baby is left untreated, meds aren't delivered, and appointment reminders aren't sent www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...
AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance
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HIV drove Zambia's life expectancy down to 37. A program backed by the US helped raise it up to 67, as hundreds of lives were saved. Now cuts to the US HIV program are causing a jump in AIDS deaths, as @stephanienolen.bsky.social reports. Gift link: nyti.ms/41V2Uvq
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AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance. A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h... via @nytimes.com
AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance
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A group of health organizations just finished a massive 36-country effort to vaccinate 18 million children who were missed during Covid. Most of those children had never received a single vaccine before We can still do good things www.who.int/news/item/24...
Largest catch-up initiative delivers over 100 million childhood vaccinations
The Big Catch-Up (BCU), a historic multi-year, multi-country effort to address vaccination declines driven largely by the COVID-19 pandemic, has reached an estimated 18.3 million children aged 1 to 5 ...
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Measles Is Back. What Comes Next Will Be Worse. When measles surges like this, it signals that vaccination programs are starting to fail, and that other preventable childhood diseases won’t be far behind. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/o... via @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Opinion | Measles Is Back. What Comes Next Will Be Worse.
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I first reported on H.I.V. in Zambia in 2002, when no one had treatment in sub-Saharan Africa. I saw hospitals where gaunt, dying patients packed the corridors. But Zambia — bolstered by international donors and the U.S. PEPFAR program — turned the tide www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...
AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance
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There’s too much bad news these days To uplift you, check out this @ourworldindata.org story on how cervical cancer rates have declined greatly among younger generations with vaccination! ourworldindata.org/hpv-vaccinat...
This is tough news For herd immunity, measles vaccine coverage needs to be much higher (95% or higher)... So, outbreaks will occur I hope B.C. can step up and turn things around
André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe number of 7-year-olds fully vaccinated against measles has dropped to 70% in B.C., down sharply from 90% a decade ago, a CBC News analysis found, by @cbctara.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca
A lovely tribute to Stephen Lewis, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social. Despite his years working in systems and institutions, Lewis never became lost to them. To the very end, he was fiercely passionate about justice for people www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/w...
Stephen Lewis Was a Singular Man on a Mission
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and by those same groups, I mean the few groups that actually survived the sudden death of USAID. Check out the data yourself, here: globalhealthwatch.org?section=blog
The data are public. We just make them usable.
The data are public. We just make them usable.
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Excellent article by @stephanienolen.bsky.social about how the shuttering of USAID diverted money away from local groups that delivered care, towards big US companies that took an overhead cut, turned around, and then subcontracted to those same groups www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/h...
Trump’s Foreign Aid Overhaul Sent Millions More Dollars to Big U.S.-Based Contractors
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Required reading from @stephanienolen.bsky.social on Stephen Lewis's legacy. It's not inevitable for people to die of what could be a chronic condition. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/w...
Stephen Lewis Was a Singular Man on a Mission
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