www.unaids.org/en/resources...

"Recognizing that people who use drugs may seek specific combinations to achieve desired effects, cope with personal issues, or enhance social experiences can inform more empathetic and tailored harm reduction strategies."

Terminated and Defamed: Adolescent HIV Trials Network Attacked by US Government "Please stand with us as we appeal this short-sighted and hopefully misdirected attack on our beloved network."

This Trump terminated study helps prevent HIV among young people - not a priority for the Trump administration. Of course they took the opportunity to defame the study and life’s work of researchers, the value of LGBTQ+ kids and to sneer at the concept of anyone actually learning anything too.

Secret Shoppers Struggle to Buy Naloxone, Syringes at Texas Pharmacies The in-person experiment uncovered frequent lack of availability, plus signficant stigma around syringe purchases.

If you survey pharmacists about whether they readily provide harm reduction supplies like syringes, "it’s easy for a person to say yes or no,” the lead study author tells Sydney Sauer.

“When you go in person and do a secret shopper audit … you’re getting the true measurement.”

Rubio says 83% of USAid programs terminated after six-week purge Surviving aid to be administered by state department in radical narrowing of definition of US national interest

These cuts mean:
- Thousands dying daily from TB, HIV, Malaria, avoidable deaths!
- Devastation to global pandemic surveillance making certain next pandemic will come soon.
- Children going hungry in war torn zones
Human lives are not "waste".
This is mass murder!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Protestaktion gegen CDU-Chef Merz: Alle Tassen im Konrad-Adenauer-Haus?

Ein Aufruf, aus Protest gegen Friedrich Merz Tassen in die CDU-Zentrale zu schicken, war offenbar erfolgreich: Containerweise stapeln sich dort Pakete.

#le0803

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The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials.

Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.

We need to organize--let’s help each other.

NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.

I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.

Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!

As #Trump #Musk #Memoli & #Vought destroy the National Institutes of Health remember these facts. What they are doing is a crime. Thanks to @amfarofficial.bsky.social.

LinkedIn post

There’s no such thing as rock bottom. Letting someone continue to suffer thinking they are heading there so that they can change is cruel. Thankfully my parents didn’t take that route.

One-page-home - WHY SCS WHY SCS: Information About Supervised Consumption Services in Canada

Canada is experiencing an overdose crisis which killed over 47K people between 2016-2024. Supervised Consumption Services (SCS) are health facilities where people consume drugs & are monitored by staff who provide education on harm reduction and emergency medical care for overdose.

www.whyscs.ca

As you know, forced abstinence is not health promotion. I remember smoking areas on hospital grounds and cannot recall any problems in many years of experience. And patients should not be addressed as "my dear". 🫤

A yellow loteria card. It says “La liberación” at the bottom, and a trans pride flag is centered in the middle of the card.

Trans people have always existed and always will. They’re normal.

Trying to erase them is futile.
You will never win.
And in that process of losing miserably, you will only be remembered as a small, weak, piss-stained coward.

Make good choices.

Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without H.I.V. Treatment President Trump’s pause on aid, and the gutting of the primary aid agency, could jeopardize the health of more than 20 million people worldwide, including 500,000 children, experts say.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...
I hope George Bush is calling every single Republican congressperson and donor every single day. A program that helped save 25 million lives, one universally respected part of his legacy, and Trump destroying it in mere weeks.

C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People (Gift Article) The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

Yes, according to NYTimes:

CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Transmission Between Cats and People buff.ly/4hJsV6I

H5N1 transmission from an infected cat to another cat and a human teenager
and
H5N1 transmission from an infected dairy farmworker to his cat who then died

#medsky #IDsky 😷🧪🛟

People Who Use Drugs Among Victims of Trump’s Assault on USAID On January 30, employees at SANPUD (South African Network of People Who Use Drugs) received a letter informing them that ...

Two harm reduction sites in South Africa, which have been serving 5,000 people with help from USAID, are among the many shut down.

“I owe my HIV-negative status to their efforts,” says one participant.

@tganeva.bsky.social reports:

We can’t arrest our way out of the overdose crisis. Yet the House is voting next week on the HALT Fentanyl Act, which blocks health research & increases mandatory minimum sentences for fentanyl. Tell your Rep to vote NO & prioritize health over handcuffs: engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/vote-...

DEMO AUFRUF AUFSTAND DER ANSTÄNDIGEN Sonntag, 02. Februar - 15.30 Uhr Grüner Treffpunkt: Ecke Paul- Lobe Allee/Konrad-Adenauer-Straul Libertaus Kommt zahlreich und bringt grüne Fahnen und Schilder mit! Daneben ist ein Portrait von Friedrich Merz zu sehen.

Wir gehen auf die Straße!
Komm zum Aufstand der Anständigen.

Der Dammbruch von CDU und FDP am Mittwoch im Bundestag markiert einen Schicksalstag in unserer Geschichte. Als Gesellschaft stellen wir uns ganz klar dagegen.

Yes. Call your members of Congress and keep calling. We need other strategies but we at least need to do this.