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Moon set seen through the acacia. Birdsong at last light. Perfect closure for a restorative weekend

PhD Fellowship Opportunity at Zvitambo in Zimbabwe Reference number ZI2501 Closing date - 30th April 2025 Applications are now open for a PhD fellowship based at the Zvitambo Institute for Maternal and Child Health Research in Zimbabwe.This fellowship...

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Based at Zvitambo in 🇿🇼, this CREATE-funded post focuses on recovery in children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), through the Co-SAM trial. Apply by 30 Apr 2025
www.create-phd.org/post/phd-fel...

At 47, my hands look old. But I won’t wear gloves like Madonna ‘I love how your hands look,’ says Pete. ‘They look like they’ve been busy cooking, typing and gardening. They look clever’

The Times and Sunday Times are FREE today. Help yourself to my columns! www.thetimes.com/article/1a17...

Tecovirimat is safe but ineffective as treatment for clade II mpox NIH-sponsored trial data offer further evidence to help inform mpox treatment decisions.

Proud to be part of the #ACTG A5418 study team! This is why we need these studies - we can’t rely on animal data alone and people deserve safe and effective #mpox treatment. Stay tuned for more on the PK and PK/PD! @cupharmacy.bsky.social @cuanschutz.bsky.social #IDSky www.nih.gov/news-events/...

People First Charter Person first language

It doesn't take much to make language person-first.....
"those failing ART" - is it the person's fault?!
"those on failing ART" - 'blames' the regimen not the person

Small things, big impact

#languagematters #CROI2025

www.peoplefirstcharter.org

@peoplefirstcharter.bsky.social

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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a woman with blonde hair and red lipstick is wearing a red dress . ALT: a woman with blonde hair and red lipstick is wearing a red dress .

31 days in January

3 micro moment strategies for self-care each day blogged

That’s 93 strategies shared to build our #self-care toolbox & help us all be Citizen Wellbeing Scientists!

Amazing.

Find out for yourself & share with others www.citizenwellbeingscientist.com/blog

#wellbeing

We are celebrating and appreciating others today with this #selfcare 5-Minute Celebration of Others routine.

(Reminder to self: self-care is relational; we care for self in order to care for others).

www.citizenwellbeingscientist.com/blog/5-minut...

Watch how the measles outbreak spreads when kids get vaccinated – and when they don't If you take 10 communities and run a simulation, it’s easy to see why we need as many members of the ‘herd’ as possible to get vaccines – before it’s too late

Because who doesn't love a good simulation of measles vaccination and herd immunity? www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo Court said five women were victims of ‘systematic kidnapping’ by state over forced removal from mothers as small children The Belgian state has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for the forced removal of five mixed-race children from their…

Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo

PROMISE Consent Video English YouTube video by THRU ZIM

Super excited to announce our trial PROMISE which will run in Harare.

Led by Rashida Ferrand & great team. Will investigate impact of screening for gonorrhoea & chlamydia in pregnancy.

Urgently need better data on STI screening & hope this will help address this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMQ3...

Human rights

To be clear, human rights are not some form of privileges that are “gifted” to people by those in power. The rights to life, to health, to security, to food, to water, to an identity, to live a life without discrimination, to freedom, justice, are inalienable, non negotiable rights. For everyone.

Remembering all those we lost to HIV🇿🇼and resolving to do better

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Me aged 30. I was in LA and dressed up to go to a posh do (hired tux). My hair is slicked back and, in black and white under bright Californian sun, my skin looks impeccable. I’m looking directly into the camera with a closed mouth smile. I look like a movie star.

Selfie. I’ve got very freshly cut hair and I’m looking directly at the camera with a similar smile. I’m wearing a vest. My lines are deeper, my eyes heavier, but I’m still in pretty good shape for a 57 year old.

I was diagnosed with HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died but I was told, with the new drugs available, I could expect to live another 20 years.
That was 27 years ago.

Honour those we lost.
Celebrate that we can now treat and prevent HIV.
Make HIV stigma history.

#WorldAIDSDay

Organisers of #sociology, #climatescience and #publichealth conferences - if you don’t offer online presentation and participation options, what has happened to your avowed sustainability, equity and inclusion values? (Repost due to typo)

The burden of service for faculty of color to achieve diversity and inclusion: the minority tax The exclusion of Blacks/African-Americans, Latinx/Hispanics, and Indigenous people from science has resulted in their underrepresentation in the biomedical workforce, especially in academia. Faculty d...

This approach has a well-known consequence: it's called the minority tax that faculty of color often face as we're called upon to address inequities in the larger system. I just want to make sure we don't keep adding to that tax. 4/4.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Faculty mentoring in academic institutions, a thread.
As I advance in my academic career (read: as I keep getting more gray hair), I've come to appreciate, even more than before, the profound responsibility we (senior-ish faculty) have to support and nurture emerging talent, not diminish it.

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I can relate! Try being an international vendor😅

The iron in your blood, the calcium in your bones, the oxygen that fills your lungs each time you take a breath - all were forged in stars that lived and died before the Earth and Sun were born. You are literally stardust made flesh. You were literally born in heaven www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Furnac...

BLACK WOMEN IN #STEM

i made a starter pack for black women in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and would really love to keep adding to it so please hmu if you fit the criteria or know someone who does! 🧪

go.bsky.app/9jYkUK1

Trump budget threatens Zimbabwe climate change resilience programs USAID has improved rural climate change resilience since 2013; now the U.S. may cut that lifeline, with dire results for Zimbabwe’s poorest.

In 2017, I wrote this piece:

Trump budget threatens Zimbabwe climate change resilience programs

news.mongabay.com/2017/07/trum...