Onze jurist @gorikooms.bsky.social over Trumps 'zorgdeals' met 27 Afrikaanse landen: hulp en medicijnen in ruil voor mineralen en medische data. "Dit is onderhandelen met het mes op de keel."

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

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...

What an amazing cynical world.

A case of burying the lede.

Midway through, there's a quote: "people estimated that around a quarter of the national budget goes on overseas aid — far higher than the real figure of 0.3% of gross national income."

Why do people in the UK feel that way? That's the question. Everything else follows.

America First in global health: a lesson in the consequences of ‘might is right’? www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-art... Feat article by @gorikooms.bsky.social

The successful scaling-up of antiretroviral therapy globally has many lessons for advancing universal health coverage: progress at risk - Globalization and Health Globalization and Health - The expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART) over the past twenty years is one of the most significant achievements in public health. It has transformed HIV from a...

link.springer.com/article/10.1... Even if at risk today, still worth remembering how it was done

The US and Europe have cut billions in health aid — can anyone fill the gap? It's time to radically reimagine global health, leaders tell World Health Summit in Berlin.

“In a partnership on equal footing, one side cannot decide to reduce a previously agreed contribution by 25% or 50%. A cooperation should be more reliable than a donor–recipient relationship,” says @gorikooms.bsky.social, health-policy researcher at ITM.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wondering when we're going to "sunset" Ryanair, Exxon Mobil, Amazon and all the rest of them. #WHS2025 #GHreform

Surely one of the more annoying things here at #WHS2025 is the ubiquitous use of the term "innovative financing" by many, when they mean "common sense taxation", even of the prudent kind, at least when considering we live in a world of massive inequality.

“This crisis is an opportunity for reform.”
– John-Arne Røttingen, CEO, Wellcome Trust

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#WHS2025 has officially started.

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#GlobalHealth #HealthForAll

Er, do they all talk at the same time and answer the question they wanted you to ask rather than the one you actually asked?

Statement of the Board of ALLEA in Alignment with the Stance of Prof. David Harel, President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

The @ALLEA_academies Board has published a statement expressing its deep respect and full support for the public statement issued by Professor David Harel on July 14th 2025. #Gaza #health #aid

allea.org/portfolio-it...

Is global health security worth 0.01% of our gross domestic product?

As governments pull back from global aid, rethinking Global Health is urgent. Thanks to @gorikooms.bsky.social for calling for real multilateralism and pragmatism. Reforming Global Health is a shared responsibility. #GlobalHealth #Multilateralism #HealthEquity
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

The end of aid: What The Global South needs to do Six key actions countries can take – and should have taken a long time ago – if they are to liberate themselves from dependence on foreign aid.

The end of aid: What The Global South needs to do

Six key actions countries can take – and should have taken a long time ago – if they are to liberate themselves from dependence on foreign aid

@themrise.bsky.social

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

Nice metaphor!

Lydia Nabirye - FORSAKEN I told her there's still time for everything. It's a long life. I told her she would not be neglected.

This is Lydia Nabirye. A Ugandan, she was a mother and dreamed of becoming a nurse. She also lived with HIV w/support from a U.S.-funded program. The Trump administration eliminated the program in January. Lydia died two months later: forsaken.life/orals/lydia-...
@unaids.org @asia-ilse.bsky.social

International health threat response The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria should step up efforts

Rebuild TB programs with less precarious financial & governance structures #tbsky www.itg.be/en/health-st...

🇪🇺The 2025 EU #GHPF25 is taking place today, organised by the @ec.europa.eu in Brussels.

📝We will be present alongside many other civil society organisations to ask important questions regarding accountability and share key recommendations for the future of this strategy.

See you there!

While discussing 'the' 'new' global health architecture at #GHPF25

Is global health security worth 0.01% of our gross domestic product?

NEW Opinion from @gorikooms.bsky.social et al:

Is global health security worth 0.01% of our gross domestic product?

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Portraits: A 10-year-old, a house painter and a mom who are running out of HIV pills HIV medications were supposed to be exempt from U.S. aid cuts. In Zambia, for example, those on the ground say otherwise.

I think most people have a hard time believing that the USAID/PEPFAR cuts are as bad as they are bc it's impossible to stomach that policymakers would knowingly kill millions. But this is what is happening.

PEPFAR supported antiretroviral therapy for 20.6 million people.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Immunization for all is humanly possible, but often practically impossible for millions of forcibly #displaced people. We need more research&resources: if #Health is a human #right, immunization should not leave anyone behind
#WorldImmunizationWeek
@salehaljadeeah.bsky.social @itmantwerp.bsky.social

A Roadmap for South-South Cooperation Greater Global South solidarity is the only viable solution in the face of the seismic political shifts in the West.

🚨NEW ARTICLE @thediplomat.com: Seismic political shifts in the West means that we need a long term South-South roadmap. Written by 6 experts from each region of the Global South, we contemplate the decline of the West and propose next steps. @munira.bsky.social Read: thediplomat.com/2025/03/a-ro...

Africans with HIV facing new dangers, as Trump administration cuts aid As many as 600,000 people could die over the next 10 years in South Africa alone as a result of U.S. funding cuts, study says

Africans with #HIV facing new dangers, as Trump administration cuts aid, by @geoffreyyork.bsky.social, Jeffrey Moyo www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... via @theglobeandmail.com #GlobalHealth #AIDS

Argentina to withdraw from World Health Organization after Trump exit Argentina will pull out of the World Health Organization (WHO), the presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said on Wednesday, following President Donald Trump's executive order last month to pull the United States out of the global health group.

Argentina’s copycat move: follows US in leaving the WHO www.reuters.com/world/americ...

‘De klimaatcrisis is meer dan ooit een politieke keuze’ – MO* Milieuwetenschapper roept op om de urgentie van de klimaatcrisis écht te erkennen en er doortastend naar te handelen.

‘De rapporten van het VN-Klimaatpanel worden met de jaren alarmerender, terwijl hun politieke impact paradoxaal genoeg lijkt af te nemen.’ Opinie van milieuwetenschapper Aaron Van Poucke.

Thailand's 30-baht healthcare plan in final roll out The fourth and final phase of the so-called "treatment anywhere" 30-baht universal healthcare scheme will kick off in the last 31 provinces of the country on Jan 1, as the nation adopts more digital...

Developing countries in Asia would be much better advised to follow Thailand's truly universal health model than India's system that selectively provides insurance against inpatient hospital care: www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/gen...

Confusion and concerns persist as Kenyans struggle with new social health insurance scheme While the government has maintained that SHIF is functioning effectively, many Kenyans are still frustrated and eager for the system's issues to be addressed.

It really is time Kenya abandoned insurance models and followed Thailand's tax financed route to UHC eastleighvoice.co.ke/universal%20...