Credited with saving 26 million lives, PEPFAR suffered big blows to its impact after the Trump administration’s abrupt stop and restart of its activities last year, according to the first tranche of data from the program since 2024.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
The long-term effect of two and three doses of bivalent HPV vaccination against HPV infections: a comparison between two observational cohort studies
✅ Just Accepted
🔗 https://bit.ly/4c7zYq2
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
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...
I would greatly appreciate anyone amplifying this or contributing.
The Alex Pretti nursing scholarship is being created. An endowed scholarship awarded to a student with financial need. Preference will be given to students with an interest in supporting America's veterans. Link below. Thank you.
Hahaha I love these threads so much
Yes Helen!! It’s very special to see your mentees thriving in the wild, but this makes me doubly proud. 🥹❤️
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Vinay Prasad has been an a noxious influence on public health and drug regulation. Good riddance. UCSF should not take him back. He should wander in the wilderness forever. www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/h...
Nope, never works.
My friend has run a camp for kids affected by HIV/AIDS for 28 years and they’ve expanded to include children impacted by stigma against the LGBTQIA+ community. Please donate!
www.mightycause.com/story/rock2026
This week's cover @thelancet.com
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
I can’t get over the ethics of putting that many people at risk in a trial for apparently absolutely no reason, it’s a complete affront to basic principles. Not even to look at the data? To claim the study was poorly designed after it went through an IND? It’s such unbelievable malpractice
The thing about this that is so enraging to me is that the FDA blessed running this study and 41,000 volunteers (heroes!) put their bodies on the line so we can benefit and that data is thrown away for nothing. (Btw I have no stock in Moderna or any other pharma)
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Correspondence “When our patients go without medical care, the harm is not theoretical. It is measurable. Fear doesn’t just keep people away from clinics and EDs, it pushes patients into crisis.” “We Do Care” by Bernard E. Trappey, M.D., for Minnesota Physician Voices
Physicians throughout Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their voices.
Read “We Do Care” by Bernard E. Trappey, MD, for Minnesota Physician Voices: nej.md/4akke1G
I cannot imagine the devastation this family is experiencing today. This statement is powerful and must be read.
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
That’s nuts. It’d be great if academics could obtain these sequences themselves outside of public health pathways, but I can see the challenges
“Reporters were told the CDC scientist could not be identified by name as a condition of participating in the briefing.”
Is there a super secret society of genomic epidemiologists I don’t know about??
@kgandersen.bsky.social @billhanage.bsky.social @helenbranswell.bsky.social
Snowy Boston picture
Snowy Boston from work today
So sweet!
The House is proposing nearly $2 billion cuts in federal HIV funding, wiping out CDC’s HIV prevention program, core Ryan White services, and the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative.
Contact your representatives and senators to urge them to fully fund federal HIV programs: bit.ly/4rG38lz
It’s not too late in the season to be vaccinated and children can get the vaccine down to 6 months old. The vaccine is not great this year but it’s better than nothing!
IDSA is the association of all the infectious diseases doctors in America
Blue background with text that reads, "January 5, 2026. Statement in Response to Federal Childhood Vaccine Schedule Changes: Childhood vaccines are safe, effective and save lives. In the last 30 years, routine childhood vaccinations have prevented 32 million hospitalizations and 1.1 million deaths in the US. The federal decision to reduce the number of recommended vaccinations for infants and children place our children at significant risk and contradict decades of evidence-based science. In Boston, we believe in science. There is no scientific evidence to support this decision. Bisola Ojikutu MD MPH FIDSA, Commissioner of Public Health, City of Boston. 1 of 2". The Boston Public Health Commission logo is at the bottom.
Blue background with text that reads, "January 5, 2026. Statement in Response to Federal Childhood Vaccine Schedule Changes: Here in our state, we will continue to recommend the full childhood vaccine schedule, as per the American Academy of Pediatrics. All recommended childhood vaccinations will continue to be covered by insurance. Keeping our children healthy is a key part of making Boston a city where all children and families can thrive. If you have questions about vaccines, talk to your health care provider and visit boston.gov/vaccines. Bisola Ojikutu MD MPH FIDSA, Commissioner of Public Health, City of Boston. 2 of 2". The Boston Public Health Commission logo is at the bottom.
We continue to follow evidence-based science that protects the health of children across Boston.
If you have questions about vaccines, talk to your health care provider and visit boston.gov/vaccines.
I got this email too for a paper of mine! It made me depressed. Like life is hard enough
#VaccinesWork (to do a lot of things)
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Can’t finish it either
Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.
