We Are Managing HIV With Selective Lenacapavir Roll-out, Not Ending It Lenacapavir promised to change the course of the epidemic, but a limited, geographically selective rollout exposes a harder reality: who gets protected, who is left behind, and whether this is progres...

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For the LEN-LA roll out in South Africa, what is at stake?

This 2-part series by @fatimahassan.bsky.social & Tian Johnson unpacks key issues affecting timing, pace, price, delivery, licensing & control.

Part 1:
health-e.org.za/2026/04/20/m...

Part 2:
health-e.org.za/2026/04/21/w...

Part 2:

"Who controls South Africa’s lenacapavir rollout? Not South Africa"

With African Alliance
@hji-sa.bsky.social

health-e.org.za/2026/04/21/w...

We Are Managing HIV With Selective Lenacapavir Roll-out, Not Ending It Lenacapavir promised to change the course of the epidemic, but a limited, geographically selective rollout exposes a harder reality: who gets protected, who is left behind, and whether this is progres...

'We are managing HIV with a selective lenacapavir roll-out, not ending it...'

Our latest in health-e on SA's drip feed LEN-LA roll out - with @africanalliance.bsky.social

- @hji-sa.bsky.social

LINK: 📲
health-e.org.za/2026/04/20/m...

Trump administration pushes nations to sign ‘trade over aid’ declaration Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it an opportunity to use the U.N. system to “promote America First values,” according to a cable reviewed by The Post.

SCOOP: Trump is trying to disguise a sociopathic idea as a garden variety neo-con slogan ('trade over aid'). In fact they are proposing U.S. corporations exploit poor countries as a trough they can eat from, subsidized by public funds, while eliminating lifesaving aid. Gift link: wapo.st/4tg4zI4

thank you @altcdc.altgov.info

Here is more about the protest: healthgap.org/press/aids-a...

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HJI DIRECTOR,
FATIMA HASSAN - RECOGNISED AMONG 20 LEADERS SHAPING HEALTH ACROSS AFRICA:

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meridianletters.com/africa-healt...

@fatimahassan.bsky.social

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HJI DIRECTOR,
FATIMA HASSAN - RECOGNISED AMONG 20 LEADERS SHAPING HEALTH ACROSS AFRICA:

📲
meridianletters.com/africa-healt...

@fatimahassan.bsky.social

Africa Health 20 Africa Health 20 is an annual editorial project highlighting 20 leaders shaping health across Africa.

Well this happened- just so humbled to be alongside some of these great voices for health equity and justice in Africa. 🤲🏾✊🏾

meridianletters.com/africa-healt...

#Africahealth20

CALL IT !!!📢📢📢

The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern.

www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

HJI sends it condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Stephen Lewis.

Today, the world lost a social justice warrior and HIV Tx champion.

Rest in Power, Stephen. ✊🏾🤲🏾

@theslf.org

🌍 Worried about the impact US policy has had on global health?
📖 Read this timely analysis from GSL Global Health Law Director, @roojinhabibi.org and co-authors @mattherder.bsky.social, Fatima Hassan, and Andrew Hill.

ICYMI.

THE US IS DRIVING A PHEIC.

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...

Open letter to Gilead: Prevention should not be a privilege MSF calls on Gilead for direct access to lenacapavir, as the current rollout falls far short of the needs.

I've walked thru the economic logic here, but Gilead obviously does not say this out loud. They don't really have a good reason not to sell to MSF, which is why they landed on negotiating supply contracts is "a lot of work" (actual thing they said). 13/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/preve...

Doctors Without Borders calls Gilead 'unconscionable' for refusing to sell HIV prevention drug to organization The move came after months of talks in which Doctors Without Borders asked Gilead Sciences for a “limited” supply of lenacapavir.

Doctors Without Borders calls Gilead ‘unconscionable’ for refusing to sell HIV prevention drug to organization.. statnews.com/pharmalot/20... #pharma #HIV #AIDS #pharma #Gilead

The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc.

But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

Law and power in pandemic negotiations: Policymaking via contract in South Africa's dealings with COVID-19 vaccine companies - PubMed COVID-19 vaccine distribution was marked by deeply unequal access for Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This article analyzes negotiations between government and pharmaceutical companies, through the c...

Cool new research digs into 💉 purchasing contracts that pharma negotiated with South Africa

Here's what they found:

@hji-sa.bsky.social‬ @abinader.bsky.social‬ @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social‬

A new HIV prevention jab could end AIDS – unless secrecy and greed get in the way A new HIV prevention jab has the potential to bring an end to the AIDS epidemic. But a lack of ambition and unjustifiable secrecy over pricing is holding it back, argue three leading health activists.

"Imagine a new HIV prevention tool existed that could – if it reached the right people – flick the switch to prevent almost all new HIV cases across the world...
Fatima Hassan, Leena Menghaney, and Bellinda Nkoana brilliant piece @hji-sa.bsky.social
www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/09/09/a...

New analysis published in @bmj.com where @roojinhabibi.org Fatima Hassan, Andy Hill & I argue the US -- through its actions -- creating a 'public health emergency of international concern'.

Multiple epidemics are expected, so we call upon @who.int to act decisively.

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

📢JUST IN📢

This HUMAN RIGHTS month, we are excited to share Health Justice Initiative's (HJI) Turning 5 Report.

Link:
healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2026/03/25/h...

The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern Matthew Herder and colleagues call for broader mobilisation to avoid the deaths and morbidity in low and middle income countries likely to result from recent US policy changes Announcing the United ...

MUST READ:

'The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern'

@mattherder.bsky.social
@fatimahassan.bsky.social
A Hill and
@roojinhabibi.org

Via @bmjmedicine.bsky.social

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Read our new piece on the pernicious role of the USG in global health, in the BMJ, today.

*The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern*

With:
@mattherder.bsky.social @roojinhabibi.org
and Andy Hill.

The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern Matthew Herder and colleagues call for broader mobilisation to avoid the deaths and morbidity in low and middle income countries likely to result from recent US policy changes Announcing the United ...

MUST READ:

'The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern'

@mattherder.bsky.social
@fatimahassan.bsky.social
A Hill and
@roojinhabibi.org

Via @bmjmedicine.bsky.social

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

📢JUST IN📢

This HUMAN RIGHTS month, we are excited to share Health Justice Initiative's (HJI) Turning 5 Report.

Link:
healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/2026/03/25/h...

Trump administration is world’s "worst public health emergency" say experts The researchers argue that U.S. policy shifts are fuelling disease spread and rising deaths—in some countries more than others.

Savage. The White House has responded to the paper we published last night in @bmj.com, which calls the US administration a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Read & weep:

We are 5!!!!!

For more on our work, and to support the HJI please visit: www.healthjusticeinitiative.org.za
healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/donate/

"We thought we had built the right networks for HIV and COVID—but with today’s political and aid instability, we need new forms of solidarity. "- Fatima Hassan, @hji-sa.bsky.social during the 3rd GH-Solidarity Webinar

@wellcometrust.bsky.social

#Health #solidarity #southafrica #GlobalHealth

🔔How can solidarity be used as a tool for justice during times of crisis?

We're honoured to feature Fatima Hassan, a leading human rights lawyer and social justice activist, and founder of the @hji-sa.bsky.social in our upcoming GH- Solidarity Webinar.

#globalhealth

Must Read:

Law & Global Governance of Infectious Disease: Access to Medicines on COVID, AIDS, & Beyond
Via:
American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics Journal
Cambridge Univ. Press
@ASLMENews

Matthew Kavanagh
Luis G Abinader
Fatima Hassan
Eric Friedman

Link:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...