Yvette Cuca

Tracking estimated deaths associated with the PEPFAR funding freeze and discontinuation.

American Journal of Public Health - Volume 115, Issue S1 Table of Contents for American Journal of Public Health

Checkout our new AJPH journal supplement from our Black Women First initiative!
ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/cur...

Foreign Aid Cuts Will Lead to 34,000 More Pregnancy-Related Deaths in Just One Year The freeze on U.S. foreign assistance funding and the subsequent stop work order has already taken an irreversible toll on global health programs, including family planning services, causing chaos acr...

"[F]or every dollar invested in family planning, there is a projected return of $60–$100 in economic growth. [It] increases women’s and girls’ education and labor force participation, which positively impacts economic growth and stability, and builds stronger families, communities and countries."

YouTube video by SaveTheChildren What Has Aid Ever Done For Anyone?

What Has Aid Ever Done for Anyone?

I was at Connecticut Foodshare this morning with Senator Blumenthal to talk about the massive cuts by Trump and his billionaire friends to child food programs.

Kids are going to go hungry so that billionaires can get another big tax break.

Graphic of the impact on each state of the destruction of USAID.

The cover-up…

USAID officials were ordered to destroy classified documents, raising concerns about compliance with federal law. An internal email sent to remaining bureau leaders at the agency’s Washington headquarters provided guidance on “clearing our classified safes and personnel documents.”

Hearing from a source:

"A friend at NCI lost 3 outstanding staff (their words) and tweeted about it. She was suspended for 2 days. No idea how her tweet was flagged."

This is for all the people asking us why it's hard to tell what's happening at NIH. Retaliation is real.

In San Francisco.

Long-acting injectable HIV therapy offers hope for those unable to take pills Patients who struggle to take daily HIV pills can benefit from long-acting injectable treatments, a new study by researchers at UCSF has found.

Patients who struggle to take daily HIV pills can benefit from long-acting injectable treatments, a study finds. "We've had folks who struggled for years & when we put them on injectables, it's like magic,” Dr. Matthew Spinelli says.

Standing Up for Science in San Francisco
@standupforscience.bsky.social

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

Fired USAid workers and HIV activists hold ‘die-in’ to protest Trump and Musk Dozens of demonstrators lie down in government office building to warn against dismantling foreign aid agency

USAID and PEPFAR have saved millions of lives. Shutting them down will kill people.

10% of NASA’s workforce has been laid off—guess that’ll be a boost for SpaceX.

Don't let Trump flood your zone. Stay focused. Keep your eye on what this corrupt regime is really doing — looting the government to line their own pockets with massive tax cuts and the ability to steer more federal contracts their way.

YouTube video by UC San Francisco (UCSF) F&A Funding: The Bedrock of Biomedical Research

Great video from UCSF on the indirect costs / F&A that Trump wants to cut.

Infant mortality increased along with births in most U.S. states with abortion bans in the first 18 months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to new research. Babies who were Black, lived in Southern states or had fetal birth defects died at the highest rates.

Three earthquakes near Hayward in just over an hour.

Nonprofits, NGOs scramble to provide global aid amid USAID uncertainty International aid and development work funded by the U.S. government has almost entirely come to a halt, leaders in humanitarian aid confirmed to ABC News.

“Despite verbal assurances from Secretary of State Marco Rubio about allowing lifesaving humanitarian aid to continue, international aid and development work funded by the U.S. government have almost entirely come to a halt, multiple leaders in humanitarian aid confirmed to ABC News.”

How USAID freeze could be the most catastrophic for women and girls “I fully expect to see an exponential increase in new HIV infections,” one expert said. Women and girls are more susceptible to HIV and malaria in many developing countries.

“When you suddenly turn off those programs, I fully expect to see an exponential increase in new HIV infections,” .... “People who have been living with HIV don’t have their medications that keep them virally suppressed so that they don’t pass it on to others.”

www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Is anyone tracking how much time, effort, and money is being spent on court cases to push back against all of these executive orders? Doesn’t seem very efficient.

Any claims about California taking more than its fair share of FEMA aid are blatantly FALSE. California has had the most natural disasters of any state in the last ten years, and still is only fifth on the list of FEMA aid recipients.

Why are USAID and foreign assistance important? For all of these reasons and because it is the right thing to do.

White text against a navy background says, “Each day of the Trump foreign aid freeze, 130,390 women and girls lose access to contraceptive care.” The next 2 images in this carousel elaborate on the estimated numbers of unintended pregnancies and maternal deaths that would result from cutting access to care.

Demand an end to the freeze on US foreign aid. Resuming work tomorrow would restore access to essential health care for millions of women and girls this year.

More in our policy analysis: gu.tt/3EkEpz6

“For each day that US-funded international family planning programs are forced to stop work, 130,390 women are denied contraceptive care. If the freeze lasts 90 days…. This could result in an estimated 4.2 million unintended pregnancies and 8,340 maternal deaths.” (Guttmacher)

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”(Martin Luther King Jr.)

Have to remind myself of this periodically.

S.Masket: “Musk is not a federal employee, nor has he been appointed by the President nor approved by the Senate…. [DOGE]… is not truly any sort of government department or agency…. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup.”

Does Elon Musk have a security clearance?

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky
CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇
web.archive.org/web/20250131...