“Tuberculosis is so often, and in so many ways, a disease of vicious cycles: It's an illness of #poverty that worsens poverty. It's an illness that worsens other illnesses from #HIV to #diabetes. It's an illness of weak #healthcare systems that weakens healthcare systems. It's an illness of malnutrition that worsens malnutrition. And it's an illness of the stigmatized that worsens #stigmatization. In the face of all this, it's easy to despair.” (p. 159)
Via Dave Levitan:
Per a source with knowledge, the entire #HHS Office of #InfectiousDisease & #HIV / #AIDS Policy, or #OIDP, was just fired.
Tell me this is not all at the direction of #putin. The #Trump administration has terminated more than 5,300 #grants and #contracts managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development #USAID worth more than $27 billion, according to a document obtained by POLITICO. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000195-d4ba-dc7d-add5-f6fe93e40000 #foreign #aid #statedepartment #budget #vaccines #food #healthcare #HIV #AIDS
This breaks my heart.
The Trump/Musk regime want to take us back to the days of HIV/AIDS "killing all the right people" with MAGA Republicans cheering on the virus.
U.S. President Donald Trump's foreign aid retreat is gutting funding for HIV treatments, risking lives globally and threatening to unravel decades of progress toward ending AIDS as a public health threat. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/27/world/politics/trump-foreign-aid-hiv-globally/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #republicans #donaldtrump #hiv #africa #vaccines
NIH cuts halt 24-year program to prevent HIV/AIDS in adolescents and young adults - #PublicHealth #HIV #AIDS #NIH https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/25/nih-cuts-include-hiv-aids-prevention-program-for-adolescents/
Prince Harry said he was "in shock" after quitting as a patron of Sentebale, a British charity he set up to help young people with HIV and AIDS in Lesotho and Botswana, following a conflict between trustees and the chair of the board. @USAToday reports:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/03/26/prince-harry-resigns-sentebale-charity-africa/82668656007/
"Last week the U.S. government terminated at least 68 grants to 46 institutions totaling nearly $40 million when awarded, according to a government website. Some of the grant money has already been spent, but at least $1.36 million in future support was yanked as a result of the cuts, a significant undercount because estimates were available for less than a third of grants."
https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-research-grants-terminated-trump-5b2810312de1420ca3df875314b0a1e9
"Every year, my colleagues and I put together a list of what we think are the top 10 breakthrough technologies of that year. When it came to innovations in biotech, there was a clear winner: lenacapavir, a drug that was found to prevent #HIV infections in 100% of the women and girls who received it in a clinical trial."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/14/1113225/annual-shot-protect-against-hiv/
Wir haben für euch den Rechtsratgeber HIV aktualisiert: 
Vorgesetzte, Partner*innen, Ärzt*innen – Wem muss ich mitteilen, dass ich #HIV-positiv bin? Können mich Versicherungen ablehnen, weil ich positiv bin? Welcher Behinderungsgrad gilt?
#Ratgeber https://www.lsvd.de/de/ct/1353-Ratgeber-fuer-HIV-positive-Menschen
Today in Labor History March 24, 1987: 250 ACT UP members protested at Wall Street to demand greater access to experimental AIDS drugs and for a coordinated national policy to fight the disease. Seventeen ACT UP members were arrested.
"HIV hilfs uns doch, Schwule gibt es immer noch..." rufen die Nazischweine da.
to be honest: Ich hatte unterschätzt, wie schnell wir #HIV-Positiven ins Fadenkreuz des neuen #Faschismus geraten würden: offensichtlich werden erst einmal die "Randgruppen" unter den #Queers angegriffen (#trans; Sexarbeiter*innen; Positive).
Ihr wisst, wie's dann weitergeht...
The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. #government is also considering cutting domestic #HIV prevention programs, which threatens to undo twenty years of efforts to fight the virus.
Valeriia feels the familiar tendrils of fear through her body as she walks into the hospital for her routine checkup.
Her #HIV diagnosis is no longer a death sentence – one jar of pills means another month of life-saving medication.
What destroying the literal health of the body politic looks like. Here is a list of the grants canceled by #HHS. They include research on #Cancer, #Covid, #HIV, #Alzheimer's. As @GottaLaff says, #ProLifeMyAss (I think that's how she puts it).
https://taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data/HHS_Grants_Terminated.pdf
What destroying the literal health of the body politic looks like. Here is a list of the grants canceled by #HHS. They include research on #Cancer, #Covid, #HIV, #Alzheimer's. As @GottaLaff says, #ProLifeMyAss (I think that's how she puts it).
https://taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data/HHS_Grants_Terminated.pdf
The Ngäbe and Buglé peoples in Panama have a reputation for resisting and distrusting outsiders. One doctor has made huge inroads by listening to patients and, in the process, changing the conversation around HIV. #Panama #HIV #HealthCare
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