Projected impacts of climate change on malaria in Africa - Nature Projected impacts of climate change on malaria burden in Africa by 2050 highlight the urgent need for climate-resilient malaria control strategies and robust emergency response systems to safeguard pr...

Projected impacts of climate change on malaria in Africa

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Upheaval of the donor landscape introduced huge uncertainty into malaria commodity markets. I’m thus pleased to share the latest global forecasts from our team and partners. We hope this dashboard provides useful intelligence & can help increase transparency dashboards.endmalaria.org/en/procureme...

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone.

Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

The Trump administration is ignoring a directive from Congress and refusing to fully fund a landmark H.I.V. program that is widely credited with saving millions of lives over the past two decades. Story by @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/461Vrxg

Former CDC Director William Foege: How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense “Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...

Cover of The Lancet's June 21, 2025 issue. Quote on cover reads: "We show that a fully functioning US President's Malaria Initiative could potentially avert nearly 14 million malaria cases and approximately 100,000 malaria deaths in Africa in 2025."

The US President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) has played a major role in malaria control in Africa.

At a time of ongoing policy reorientation, a study quantified the impact that a fully functioning PMI would have on malaria cases & deaths in Africa during 2025.

Read this & more: tinyurl.com/s2xc8mk8

3 guys, none with infectious disease or pedatric expertise, just ran roughshod over normal procedures to block COVID shots for kids, pregnant people. This is so awful & insane & we should treat it as such. Reporters, you're on notice. Both sides this at your peril & watch your credibitlity evaporate

When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody."

But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies.

Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.

Rubio's gutting of USAID is illegal and unconstitutional. There is no form of democracy anywhere of any kind that would allow the executive branch to unilaterally cancel budgets and programs passed by the legislative branch and signed into law. It's utter lawlessness.

Killing PEPFAR means killing millions of people All to save 0.08 percent of the budget.

Spending my weekend producing estimates of how many people’s lives are at risk as a direct consequence of PEPFAR’s cancellation
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Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimate...

"One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimated. The programs were cut anyway."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This is all lies. Reporting has made clear that
- Food and health spending is still paused, or contracts have been cancelled entirely (e.g. Ready-to-use therapeutic food for starving children)
- Money owed for work done during Biden still hasn't gone out
- Musk's people are the blockers

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world.

“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.

This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.

What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

Excerpt from the linked story

Remember when the WH insisted that global HIV prevention & treatment was exempt from the freeze? When it seemed MAYBE they understood that cutting off medicine could put the entire planet at risk of drug resistant HIV strains?

Wrong. Elon Musk’s interns were simply shutting payments off manually.

Starmer’s cuts to UK aid budget are ‘cruel and shameful’, say experts Reduction to 0.3% of gross national income in order to fund defence spending has been decried as a ‘move to appease Trump’

The UK is slashing its aid budget, following in US footsteps.

“Rather than rising to this challenge and offering emergency support, the UK is delivering another blow to health systems around the world."

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Malaria Fight Abroad Keeps America Safe at Home

"Within DOGE’s quest to reduce waste, America’s anti-malaria strategy, one of our nation’s most successful initiatives of the past 20 years, has essentially been shut off." www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/mala...

For that money, PMI distributes (per its '23 report) 37M nets to protect children from mosquitos, 100M rapid tests to diagnose them when they get sick, & 63M drugs to cure them. Malaria's long history shows us what will happen next if we don't quickly restart funding for these life-saving tools.

Super Bowl 2025 Scores Record $800 Million-Plus in Ad Sales for Fox Corp., Tubi Fox Corp. is boasting a record haul in ad sales for Super Bowl LIX on Fox and Tubi of more than $800 million in gross revenue.

It's now been about one month since the US President's Malaria Initiative was "paused" for review, halting long-standing, bipartisan malaria funding of $800M annually: a lot of money, but relatively speaking also only the advertising budget for one Super Bowl (go Eagles) variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Malaria resurgence: a systematic review and assessment of its causes - Malaria Journal Background Considerable declines in malaria have accompanied increased funding for control since the year 2000, but historical failures to maintain gains against the disease underscore the fragility o...

Way back in 2012, some friends and I reviewed all the historical episodes we could find where malaria resurged after having been controlled successfully: malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10..... The single most common cause of malaria coming back over the years was a reduction in funding.

At last, a health secretary who’ll do something about miasma

USAID Lifesaving Aid Remains Halted Despite Rubio’s Promise A new directive puts further exemptions on hold. Aid workers also say the U.S. government has made it impossible to pay partners around the world.

NEW: Despite Musk and Rubio’s statements, life-saving programs with USAID funds are NOT restarting. A funds transfer system is frozen. And a USAID official sent out an internal email obtained by @nytimes.com telling employees to halt applications to restart: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

Opinion | It’s America That Suffers When We Cut Foreign Aid (Gift Article) U.S.A.I.D. keeps children alive and us safe.

So what has the Trump/Musk push on USAID achieved so far? I reached out to contacts, and here's the state of play: Children dying. Hospitals closing. Ebola at risk of spreading. US food aid rotting. Moms at risk in childbirth. China gaining soft power. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

Foreign Aid Contractors Sue to Overturn Trump Administration’s USAID Order The filing from a group of nonprofits, contractors and consultants is the latest lawsuit against the Trump administration’s efforts to freeze and reduce federal spending.

A group of nongovernmental organizations, contractors and small businesses that rely on American foreign aid to carry out humanitarian and development programs abroad filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday against the Trump administration and its efforts to phase out USAID.

US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps

Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without HIV Treatment (Gift Article) President Trump’s pause on aid, and the gutting of the primary aid agency, could jeopardize the health of more than 20 million people worldwide, including 500,000 children, experts say.

Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, H.I.V. groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article) Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.

"In Uganda, the National Malaria Control Program has suspended spraying insecticide into village homes and ceased shipments of bed nets for distribution to pregnant women and young children." Story on the deadly US aid pause, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True. Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that sca...

NEW: Organizations that provide vital, lifesaving care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff.

“I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this,” one doctor said.

And... PMI.gov is down 👀