Shailly Gupta

TB anywhere is TB everywhere. Join us to know the challenges people with TB continue to face in accessing the TB treatment in EU and EEA region. #TBSky #IDSky

The premises on which the US refused to endorse the declaration are beyond absurd - but sadly, not surprising.

Activists Demand $40-a-year Generic Price for Breakthrough HIV Prevention Drug be Made Available to all Low- and Middle-Income Countries  - Public Citizen WASHINGTON, D.C. — A global coalition reacted to two deals announced today to make long acting lenacapavir (LEN-LA), a 6…

A call by CSOs to make it available to all by overcoming patent and regulatory challenges #IDSky www.citizen.org/news/activis....

Gilead’s Voluntary License on Lenacapavir: Key Limitations of the License and Recommendations to Improve Access MSF briefing document outlines Gilead’s voluntary license for lenacapavir, highlights its limitations and challenges, and recommends actions to expand access.

But not all countries benefit: some were excluded from Gilead’s license with generics—meaning they won’t get this ~$40 price msfaccess.org/gileads-volu...

It still requires massive budgets at country level to introduce this revolutionary drug at large scale to really turn the tide of HIV transmission. Amid funding cuts by the US and other countries, would the implementation of this HIV prevention drug become a reality? bsky.app/profile/avac...

Unitaid, CHAI, and Wits RHI enter into a landmark agreement with Dr. Reddy’s to make HIV prevention tool lenacapavir affordable in LMICs - Unitaid

Unprecedented!!! The new price lands exactly in the range researchers projected last year ($35–$46/year with 2M doses in demand). A huge win for CSOs & HIV communities who campaigned tirelessly for this 🎉🎉🎉 unitaid.org/news-blog/le...

AIDS is not over; the global AIDS response has been upended in recent months," the UNAIDS statement said, adding much more needed to be done if the world wanted to achieve the goal of ending AIDS by 2030. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

U.S. to Cut Out Nongovernmental Groups in Refocusing Health Aid

« The executive summary says that many nongovernmental groups that receive funding approved by Congress, especially for technical assistance and program management, “have perverse incentives to self-perpetuate rather than work towards turning functions over to local governments.” »

#LongCOVID is affecting 400M people globally who are often undiagnosed & unsupported. People living with #HIV are 2-4x more likely to develop #LongCOVID. We urgently need research centered on these communities JD Davids tells #SaveAIDSResearch in hour 24. #HIVresearch

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I wish people in the US demand for this drug to be available in pens at the same price as vials as it is possible. Mode of delivery of a drug cant make it few times more expensive. Its just ridiculous.

How an Mpox outbreak revealed an epidemic of untreated HIV in Sierra Leone The impact of the US slashing foreign aid on the country’s Mpox response has likely been huge, activists on the ground tell Rachel Schraer

US funding cuts impact: Mpox has revealed that the scale of HIV in the country may be far higher than national data suggests. Meanwhile, Trump’s aid cuts left the country scrambling to plug gaps in programmes that has likely hampered the speed of its response, activists have told The Independent.

Always Inadequate The force of low self-esteem can feel so enormous, so unexplainable, it seems almost mythic.

Why are we so plagued by low self-esteem? “So inexplicable is its grip, so binding its influence, it can feel almost mythic,” Vivian Gornick writes.

Picture of morning sun and its reflection on the lake

Saturday morning run. Need to get up before sun does next time to get a better picture.

HIV Funding Cuts Undermine Years of Progress in Zimbabwe | MSF Aid funding cuts in Zimbabwe have left communities without adequate HIV care

The consequences of ongoing and newly announced funding cuts threaten to reverse decades of hard-earned progress in Zimbabwe, where an estimated 1.3 million people are living with HIV significant achievements.

Looming Danger: Nigeria’s TB Fight on Life Support As Donors Pull the Plug "When the political elites are affected by anything, they jump up and ensure their interests are protected. Now that HIV and tuberculosis may not touch them, we have to appeal to them." When the spine...

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From January to June 2025, MSF teams at Bay Regional hospital treated 11,894 malnourished children, an increase of 76 per cent compared to the same period last year.

In 2024 alone, MSF treated over 14,000 children for malnutrition, conducted more than 38,000 paediatric consultations, assisted in over 2,800 births, and carried out approximately 35,000 reproductive health consultations.

The suspension of USAID funding has led to the closure of at least 37 health and nutrition sites in both rural and urban areas around Baidoa, Somalia. Consequently, patient numbers at remaining facilities like Bay Regional hospital have surged, overwhelming an already fragile healthcare system.

As someone just said to me (in person) roses without borders 😅

A rose flower in my balcony facing the road

More keen on looking at the outside world than being in my balcony

“In May, the United Nations Population Fund in North Kivu, which helped sexual violence survivors with support from USAID, only had 2,500 emergency kits for the entire province, while thousands of women are attacked every month,” says Gbagbo.

An order of 100,000 post-rape kits – which include medication for preventing infection from HIV and other STDs – that were set to be distributed to multiple organisations treating sexual violence victims and survivors in eastern DRC was cancelled this year, with catastrophic consequences.

For women in eastern DRC nowhere is safe from sexual violence | MSF In Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), MSF teams continue to record alarming numbers of sexual violence cases, with hundreds of victims and survivors seeking care at health centres each ...

Congolese women are also suffering the consequences of the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) under the administration of Donald Trump. www.msf.org/women-easter...

"With key malaria prevention activities such as the distribution of bed nets, indoor and outdoor spraying, and timely access to healthcare services being significantly decreased this year, we fear that the region will have a hard time controlling the spread of the disease.."

“Walking through the camp, you’ll see many empty buildings—spaces once used by NGOs that have now withdrawn,” says Dirks. “Their absence is deeply felt. Services that once supported this community have now disappeared.”

Aid cuts threaten refugee lives in Gambella, Ethiopia | MSF Significant aid cuts in Ethiopia’s Gambella region are threatening refugee lives, as basic services like food distribution, healthcare, clean water, and disease prevention rapidly deteriorate.

The impact of USAID cuts is slowly but surely visible in many countries where we work. For eg: In Gambella, Ethiopia, funding cuts led to the suspension of nutrition services in 4 out of 7 refugee camps, leaving around 80,000 children under the age of 5 at risk of life-threatening malnutrition.

A tiny rose plant with 5 pink roses in my balcony

So much love from this tiny rose plant

More Concessions For Soda And Alcohol Industries In Final UN Draft Declaration On NCDs - Health Policy Watch The language on health taxes has been further weakened in the latest draft of the political declaration on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), due to be adopted

Focus of UN High Level Meeting this year is Non Communicable Diseases. Seems like public health angle remains weak as of now in the draft text. Reports @kerrycullinan.bsky.social healthpolicy-watch.news/more-industr...

Brazil files WTO request for consultation over US tariffs Brazil's government has filed a request for consultations at the World Trade Organization over the tariffs imposed by the United States on goods from that country, it said in a statement on Wednesday.

Interesting development. Lula is retaliating back: www.reuters.com/world/americ...

More research being cancelled in the US. The country that had always been at the forefront of global health research.