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Hill Day is where advocacy meets action.

We’re gearing up for Tuberculosis (TB) Hill Day on March 2, heading back to DC to fight for stronger investments in TB care and protect lifesaving funding.

Advocacy works. And we’re just getting started. 💪🏽

Principles and priorities for integrated tuberculosis screening and care: A modified Delphi consensus exercise Tuberculosis predominates in communities with multiple health and socioeconomic vulnerabilities. Tuberculosis diagnosis presents an opportunity for expanded health services to tuberculosis-affected ho...

NEW in PLOS Global Public Health:

Global experts across 60+ countries strongly back integrated TB care—better outcomes, broader screening, and a clear mandate to act. #Tuberculosis #GlobalHealth

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

JAMA Network Open: National Institutes of Health Funding for RNA Vaccine Research

Anirudha S. Chandrabhatla, MD et al

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People with HIV fare as well as those without it after liver transplants Data presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2026) held in Denver, US showed comparable long-term liver transplant outcomes after 15 years between people with and without HIV.  “These results are encouraging and support liver transplants in people with HIV when clinically indicated,” Dr José Miró, from the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain, told the audience.

News from CROI 2026: People with HIV fare as well as those without it after liver transplants #CROI2026

Major US cohort reveals sharp racial disparities in HIV acquisition among trans women At the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2026) held in Denver last week, Dr Sari Reisner from the University of Michigan presented data on how many transgender women in a national US cohort acquired HIV over a two-year period, and the factors associated with getting HIV. “Our study found that HIV incidence remains high among trans women in the US and that disparities persist across race and ethnicity, with highest HIV incidence for Black, Latina and Asian trans women,” Reisner stated.

News from CROI 2026: Major US cohort reveals sharp racial disparities in HIV acquisition among trans women #CROI2026

YouTube video by aidsmap CROI 2026: How broadly neutralising antibodies help the immune system

At #CROI2026, Professor John Frater from the University of Oxford spoke with aidsmap.com's Roger Pebody about how broadly neutralising antibodies work in the body and help the immune system: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwCO...
Find out more in our news story: www.aidsmap.com/news/mar-202... #CROI2026

Half the participants from placebo arm of HIV cure trial have prolonged viral load remission when given broadly neutralising antibodies In the second phase of the RIO HIV cure trial, participants originally given a placebo were offered the experimental therapy, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2026) heard last week. More than half of them responded with a prolonged period of low or undetectable viral load and were able to put off resuming their HIV therapy for more than 20 weeks. Two are still off antiretroviral therapy (ART) after more than a year. [GLOSSARY]

News from CROI 2026: Half the participants from placebo arm of HIV cure trial have prolonged viral load remission when given broadly neutralising antibodies #CROI2026

Join #thechoiceagenda @popcouncil.bsky.social @aphaza.bsky.social and partners tomorrow, Tuesday, as we discuss the #Dapivirine Ring: Giving Women Hope and Choice in #HIV Prevention

8:30am ET / 15:30 SAST

🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/dvrhope

Where "politically polarizing" means

- scientific evidence shows it doesn't cure cancer at all
- MAGA/MAHA cranks and wellness grifters, lying relentlessly, falsely claim it does

Maybe you should point that out in your headline?

New York Times article from 1997, nearly 30 years ago:

"a counselor told him that the Federal-state partnership that pays for AIDS drugs for the indigent was broke in Florida, as it is in 25 other states."

AIDS Drugs Elude the Grasp of Many of the Poor
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States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment

Tens of thousands of Americans are losing access to treatment for H.I.V. as nearly 20 states impose restrictions on assistance programs and several others weigh such changes.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...

HIV- and cytomegalovirus-specific human memory CD8+ T cells are activated and expanded independent of co-stimulatory signaling by T-cell receptor–specific immunotherapeutics Abstract. To delineate the minimum signals required to activate and expand antigen-specific memory CD8+ T cells, we used immunotherapeutics termed Immuno-S

#HIV- and cytomegalovirus-specific human memory CD8+ T cells are activated and expanded independent of co-stimulatory signaling by T-cell receptor–specific immunotherapeutics academic.oup.com/jimmunol/art... (open access) @jimmunol.bsky.social

this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying

The #HIV reservoir landscape in elite controllers journals.lww.com/co-hivandaid... (open access review)

Post-treatment SIV control is associated with specific features of viral persistence before and after treatment interruption www.nature.com/articles/s41... (open access) @natcomms.nature.com

#HIV controllers, lessons learnt from the lymphoid tissues journals.lww.com/co-hivandaid... (open access review)

Recommendations from the 2nd Consensus Workshop on Analytical Treatment Interruption in HIV Research Trials Analytical treatment interruption (ATI) is an important tool to evaluate interventions designed to achieve HIV eradication or long-term control without antiretroviral therapy. We convened a stakeholde...

Recommendations from the 2nd Consensus Workshop on Analytical Treatment Interruption in #HIV Research Trials www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... (open access)

WSJ: Turmoil Takes Hold at CDC as Top Officials Keep Leaving
on.wsj.com/4qY8ffn (gift article)

Jay Bhattacharya holding a spot for...?

“So long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans.”

— Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of electi...

NEW: Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent activists who worked to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed for the president to declare a national emergency to take over the midterms.

8 DAYS TILL SUFS NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION NATIONWIDE RALLY! TAKE BACK OUR SCIENCE!

The Take Back our Science Rally just 8 days away! Happening in Washington DC and all across the country! Join a local rally, or start your own pop-up rally! Details at standupforscience.net/march7

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#March7

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U.S. Has More Than 1,100 Measles Cases "The U.S. has recorded more than 1,100 measles cases so far this year, according to data published Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," CNN reports. "It’s a troubling mileston...

U.S. Has More Than 1,100 Measles Cases
Thanks to MAHA and RFK
politicalwire.com/2026/02/27/u...

BREAKING: it appears that the MHRA, in control of the UK puberty blocker trial, appointed a senior officer who had previously mocked supporters of trans rights online.

Recusal is not enough here. He and those responsible for appointing him should resign.

How can trans people trust them now?

Thanks to the Nature team for digging into this. Apportionment is one of those inside-baseball issues that I hoped never to need to learn about... But here was are.

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets. The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

HIV broadly neutralizing antibody escape dynamics drive the outcome of AAV-vectored immunotherapy in humanized mice Broadly neutralizing antibodies are promising therapeutics for ending the HIV pandemic; however, their clinical efficacy is undermined by viral escape. Galvez, Nitido, et al. could drive the therapeutic outcomes of vectored immunotherapy in humanized mice by modulating the fitness costs and resistance benefits of HIV escape from AAV-vectored bNAbs.

Online now: HIV broadly neutralizing antibody escape dynamics drive the outcome of AAV-vectored immunotherapy in humanized mice

For the many Platner fans here, Peters is a white supremacist, Holocast denying / antisemetic, virulently anti-trans anti-gay right-wing influencer. There's no lack of people making similar points that Platner could be reading and promoting who are not nazis.

This is a riot because Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya is a driver of medical disinformation. @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social provides a clear thread of the truth at #NIH. She's not the boondoggler, but we know who is.

Cover of The Lancet:

@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Fielded a terf, received the "worst result for the conservatives in by-election history"