Sharonann Lynch

@ghpp-georgetown.bsky.social Senior Scholar @drtlaleng.bsky.social presented her report “Health and care workers and the right to health” at the UN General Assembly— calling for peace, accountability, and protection for health workers everywhere.

📖 Read the report here: docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/48

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Save the Children reports that Israel has killed more than 20,000 Palestinian children over the past 23 months — this means at least one Palestinian child has been killed every hour on average by Israeli forces.

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.

MUST READ | As delegates convene at the SA AIDS Conference, they must publicly call out the demand for price secrecy from Gilead and the Global Fund for what it is: bullying, write Fatima Hassan, Leena Menghaney, and Bellinda Nkoana.

www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/09/09/a...

Human rights are key to pandemic response, but today face major headwinds. Join me & @drtlaleng.bsky.social on Sept 8 for a discussion the right to health in the face of pandemics amidst today's geopolitics @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @gtownsoh.bsky.social
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This is a moral crisis. A created famine in 2025.

Want to change the way your country addresses Advanced HIV Disease? Start with the facts.
The CD4 Monitoring Fact Sheet gives you the evidence you need to understand the crisis, explain it to others, and advocate for stronger national responses.

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@theipcinfo.bsky.social warns: the worst-case scenario of #famine is unfolding in #Gaza.

Mass starvation, malnutrition, and disease are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths.

@who.int calls for urgent access for food and medical aid into Gaza at scale.

Ceasefire.
Peace is the best medicine!

Authored by @sharonannlynch.bsky.social, @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social, ‪‪@linda-gailb.bsky.social‬, ‪@rmcohen72.bsky.social‬, Yogan Pillay, Yvette Raphael, & Agrata Sharma the 10-point framework to accelerate access, even at a time of drastic funding cuts & threats to the gains of the past 25 years.

Lessons for long-acting lenacapavir: catalysing equitable PrEP access in low-income and middle-income countries Despite substantial advances in biomedical HIV prevention, including long-acting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) options such as cabotegravir, barriers to widespread adoption and scale-up p...

Our piece in @thelancet.com sets out a 10-point framework for catalysing equitable access to lenacapavir, built on difficult lessons of HIV treatment and PrEP scale-up and the realities of reduced global funding. Led by @sharonannlynch.bsky.social they include.. 🧵
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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'The Road to Long-Acting Antiretroviral Therapy'

Thursday 17 April
3-4:30pm SAST & CET

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Great thread by Matt K on the Trump Executive Order on South Africa.

CSPAN cut the feed after the press conference but the members of Congress and Senators have entered the main lobby where USAID HQ is located. The door is being blocked by law enforcement.

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Just landed in bluesky. first time on any social media since #thathappened. next step in facing #newreality is reading the news, but tbh, i'm not ready. can barely face it.

thanks to @mbarber.bsky.social for setting up the A2M pack.