Stephanie Nolen

Yet another thought-provoking and important piece on assisted dying by @stephanienolen.bsky.social .

A Cancer Patient Chose Assisted Death. That Wasn’t the Last Hard Choice.

I was privileged to spend time with Tatiana Andia over a year as she made the hardest decisions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/h...

Includes the immortal phrase "tick dick pic" FTW!

Devastating Effects From PEPFAR, USAID Cuts Are Hitting Africa, Experts Say The last-minute save of PEPFAR is welcome but doesn't undo the damage that occurred, one noted

PEPFAR news: "The impacts are already clear and devastating." www.medpagetoday.com/spotlight/hi... And despite a last-minute reprieve from the Senate, @stephanienolen.bsky.social reports that the Trump administration is making plans to shut it down. Gift link: nyti.ms/4o2zzZX

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👀"U.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS - #PEPFAR, the campaign to end H.I.V. globally, would morph into an effort to detect disease outbreaks and sell American products"
via @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/h...

U.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS

PEPFAR, the American H.I.V. response, earned a reprieve when Congress voted to restore $400 m in funding. But that may be short-lived: Officials at the State Department have been mapping out a plan to shut it down -- exiting some countries in as little as 2 years.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/h...

U.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS

US quietly drafts plan to drop programme that saved millions from AIDS, reveals @stephanienolen.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/h...

that's the dek I should have written. pithy. accurate.

A Venerable AIDS Activist Returns to Battle

Following reduced US support, renewed activism in South Africa to improve care for HIV+ individuals and support HIV prevention. Nice article by @stephanienolen.bsky.social.

A Venerable AIDS Activist Returns to Battle

Faced with US funding cuts and a South African government that has defaulted to some of its old indifference, Zackie Achmat is back in harness. A deftly turned piece from Steph Nolen, who knows this terrain better than any other international reporter.

A Venerable AIDS Activist Returns to Battle

Zackie Achmat, a Venerable AIDS Activist Returns to Battle www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/h...

South African AIDS Activist Pushes for H.I.V. Treatment Access After U.S.-Aid Cuts Zackie Achmat, once at the center of South Africa’s push for lifesaving H.I.V. treatment, has come out of retirement as U.S. funding cuts and his own government’s inertia revive old fears.

Zackie Achmat, an activist once at the center of South Africa’s push for lifesaving HIV treatment, has come out of retirement as U.S. funding cuts and his own government’s inertia revive old fears.

A Venerable AIDS Activist Returns to Battle

It was surreal, and heart-breaking, to see Zackie reluctantly return to the trenches, along side some of the women who were the backbone of the TAC, all of them haunted by the ghost of the years their own government denied them life-saving care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/h...

A Venerable AIDS Activist Returns to Battle

The first time I interviewed Zackie Achmat, in 2002, he was desperately ill, deep in in his drug strike -- before the Treatment Action Campaign fought for and won the most critical changes in the new South Africa.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/h...

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Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support

The fight to end the HIV faces it's biggest threat in many decades. It's hard to feel optimistic about what prevention with Lenacapavir can accomplish when so many other fronts of the fight have been crippled. Excellent reporting by @stephanienolen.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support

Cruel irony: just as we should be celebrating FDA approval of injectable lenacapavir for PrEP & accelerating access to it, the future of the global HIV response is in doubt. @stephanienolen.bsky.social documents the promise and the peril: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

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Como cortes de Donald Trump destruíram potência em pesquisa médica da África do Sul
Bloqueios ameaçam tratamentos para doenças cardíacas e HIV e podem afetar também farmacêuticas norte-americanas
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Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency

"The decision to end U.S. support for Gavi — which was included in the rescission package passed by Congress and now being considered by the Senate — leaves the organization with an immense hole in its budget." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h... By @stephanienolen.bsky.social

Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support

This was supposed to be a breakthrough year in the 44-year-long struggle against H.I.V.

It's turned into something very different.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

Kennedy Withdraws Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency

RFK Jr. Withdraws Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency. Health secretary says U.S. would no longer donate to Gavi, the vaccine agency. The organization rejected his claims, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h... via @nytimes.com #GlobalHealth #vaccination

Video: Were the U.S.A.I.D. Cuts ‘Efficient?’ When President Trump took office, U.S.A.I.D. was one of the first agencies to be dismantled in the name of efficiency. Amy Schoenfeld Walker, a New York Times reporter and graphics editor who has been...

Were the U.S.A.I.D. Cuts ‘Efficient?’ www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

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"In Cape Town, South Africa, one of the world’s foremost H.I.V. researchers has been spending a chunk of each day gently telling longtime workers and young doctoral students that the money is gone and so are their jobs. When the calls are done, she weeps in her empty office."

South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It.

South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It. Budget cuts threaten global progress on everything from heart disease to #HIV, and could affect American drug companies, too, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h... via @nytimes.com #GlobalHealth

South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It.

@stephanienolen.bsky.social's piece on the destruction of the South African biomedical research effort by the Trump Administration is a must-read. Please circulate. This is a disaster for South Africa AND the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h...

South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It.

The destruction has grim ramifications for human health worldwide, and also for American pharmaceutical companies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h...

South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It.

South African scientists have worked closely with American researchers and been awarded more U.S. research funding than any other country.
But executive orders and cuts from the Trump administration have, in a matter of months, demolished this research ecosystem.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h...

South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It.

South Africa is a medical research powerhouse, little known to people outside the field. Its scientists have been responsible for breakthroughs against major global killers, including heart disease, H.I.V. and Covid-19.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h...

South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It.

"The abrupt terminations have left researchers scrambling to find ways to provide ongoing monitoring and care for the people, including small children, who had been given experimental vaccines or drugs."

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h... by @stephanienolen.bsky.social