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America’s Mental Barrier American insurance companies — quietly, and with little government pushback — have assumed an outsize role in mental health care. People in pain are paying the price.

If you think that private provider and insurance are the solution to get mental health services available to us in UK, think again. Here is the example from the US
"America’s Mental Barrier
How Insurers Interfere With Mental Health Care"
www.propublica.org/series/ameri...

The promise of lenacapavir The Food and Drug Administration just approved a revolutionary new HIV prevention tool, but the Trump administration could undermine this breakthrough

It was already going to be a challenge to get lenacapavir to the communities that need the new breakthrough #HIV prevention method most b/c of the price Gilead is charging. Then the Trump admin ended critical U.S. support to global HIV prevention efforts: theforsaken.substack.com/p/the-promis...

Mozambique: These are the children the United States left to die Part one: How the Trump Administration abandoned orphans with HIV

groundup.org.za/article/moza... Tell us how no one has died again?

Another SpaceX rocket explodes in new setback to Elon Musk’s Mars project Starship 36 was preparing for 10th test flight from Texas when it suffered ‘catastrophic failure’ while on stand One of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starships exploded during a routine test in Texas, authorities said, in the latest setback to the billionaire’s dream of turning humanity into an interplanetary species. The Starship 36 suffered “catastrophic failure and exploded” at the Starbase launch facility shortly after 11pm on Wednesday (0400 GMT Thursday), a Facebook post by the Cameron County authorities said. Continue reading...

Another SpaceX rocket explodes in new setback to Elon Musk’s Mars project

Excellent blog on lenacapavir by @ellenthoen medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/06/fda-...

A new era of diabetes treatment meets old barriers Affordable access to life-saving diabetes treatments in LMICs hinges on legal battles over patent monopolies.

By invitation . A new era of diabetes treatment meets old barriers
Affordable access to diabetes treatments hinges on legal battles over patent monopolies
By @LMenghaney
www.thehindubusinessline.com/specials/pul...

The U.S. bought $12 million in aid for poor nations. Under Trump, it may be destroyed. Aid organizations have been in talks about taking control of the contraceptives and HIV prevention medication, but those negotiations have stalled amid shifting directives from the government, a Post ...

Is this sane?
The U.S. bought $12 million in aid for poor nations. Under Trump, it may be destroyed.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Africa needs 6.4 million mpox vaccines to address the outbreak-now concentrated in Sierra Leone
us2.campaign-archive.com?e=b6b5cecd96...
The vaccine is produced by one company only and is stockpiled in the North while the diseases is in the South. Did politicians learn anything from the HIV crisis?!

US funding cuts threaten 39 research sites in South Africa, putting scientific advancements and hard-won progress against TB and HIV at risk TAG and MSF urge donors to act now to protect ongoing research and ensure continuity of care for people with HIV and TB

⚠️ South Africa: Lifesaving scientific research on prevention, testing, treatment and care for people living with #HIV and #tuberculosis is under serious threat due to funding suspensions and grant terminations U.S. government.

msfaccess.org/us-funding-c...

Electric plane tech centre to be built near Glasgow Airport US start-up ZeroAvia says 350 jobs could be created at new centre to develop hydrogen fuel cells for planes.

Net Zero & economic growth can quite happily walk hand in hand

"Electric plane tech centre to be built near Glasgow Airport"

"Facility to develop & manufacture fuel cells for small electric planes could be in operation by 2028 creating around 350 jobs"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pandemic Agreement could prevent “deadly greed and nationalism of COVID-19” - People's Medicines Pandemic Agreement could prevent “deadly greed and nationalism of COVID-19”

#People's Medicine Alliance reaction to adoption of the pandemic agreement at @who.int

Here: peoplesmedicines.org/resources/me...

@jkarpsawey.bsky.social

Kennedy Jr wants to start a new health organisation without political influence! just that it is influenced by US policies e.g. on gender ! He wants an organisation that supports unprecedented measles outbreak because of antivax?!!!

Devex International Development Devex is the media platform for the global development community.

"Following PEPFAR cuts, vulnerable Ugandans are dying, providers say"
Lydia Nabirye stopped taking her HIV medicines & died outside the eastern Ugandan town of Kamuli on March 26 after a U.S.-supported program was eliminated. She was 28 years old.
@devex
From devex.com

Why the EU AI Act Falls Short on Preserving What Matters in Health

Really important comment about regulation of AI in healthcare from @hai-org.bsky.social

www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Clearly pharma industry controls state activities.
Lobbying is clear . Pharma is after profit and they always threaten countries (specially in UK/EU) that they wd move their HQ/facilities/operations... to the US. So govts bow to pharma!

Meidas_Charise Lee on X: "So impressive 🔥🔥 Canadian physician, Dr. Danielle Martin https://t.co/BtShNgQlG2" / X So impressive 🔥🔥 Canadian physician, Dr. Danielle Martin https://t.co/BtShNgQlG2

x.com/i/status/190...

ٍThe difference between singly payment system (public as in Canada and the UK #NHS) and multiple system (Australia public and private)

,"17 States have reported a total of 378 cases of measles" and 2 deaths for the first time in a decade. Still parents do not want to vaccinate their children.
Amazing really

In 2023, 22% of total foreign aid for all Development Assistance Committee (DAC) countries was spent at home.

In 2023, 22% of total foreign aid for all Development Assistance Committee (DAC) countries was spent at home.

Aid to Africa?
From 1980-2018, sub-Saharan Africa lost a staggering $1.3 trillion to illicit financial flow- annually $88.6 billion =3.7% of Africa GDP.
Why not stop this. Instead it finances agriculture, health, education, research, social care and jobs.

YouTube video by Just Treatment NHS England axed in healthcare shake-up. #skynews #news #politics #politicalnews #nhs

🚨 The government’s #NHS England scrap raises more questions than answers.

On Sky News, our Director Diarmaid:  “If we risk a large scale reorganisation without significantly increased funds, I have very grave concerns things are going to get worse instead of better.” ⬇️
youtube.com/shorts/GIrvj...

A cartoon of a woman looking at her computer monitor. The title of the cartoon is "Peak Operational Efficiency." Quote bubbles coming out of the monitor suggest numerous emails with contradictory information and instructions. "You're fired!" "NO - WAIT! Never mind!" "Back to work!" "Send your manager FIVE accomplishments or you're fired!" "No don't!" "Send five or you're fired!" There's an additional chat bubble coming from the monitor with an apparent headline that reads, "Thousands of fired federal workers called back to work." Finally, there is a cell phone on the desk, and the caller is asking, "Hey...do you still have a job?

while many of us are focused on aid crisis and geopolitical interruptions in US relations, we shouldn't sleep on how much Trump's moves are empowering anti-democratic, anti-gay, anti-woman political leaders around the world. Their actions in last month are chilling and linked to goings on in DC...

Did you miss this piece of good news from Colombia? 🇨🇴

Thousands of people living with #HIV will get access to affordable and effective HIV treatment 👏

Miguel Angel Barria, ED of Red Somos, a sexual health organisation working with #LGBTQ people, welcomes this new development ⤵️

Amazing! on Ebola in Uganda
"The collaboration of both governments (US & Uganda), “has thus far minimized the impact of this outbreak on U.S. citizens.”
So tat's what matter. Never mind the death of a Ugandan mother and her 2 kids and the dangers to other Ugandan pple!

Suspected cases of #mpox are tested but there is no money to pay for transport of samples to labs. Testing in DRC dropped from 27% last week to 17% this week
Thank you USA!!

Time for African leaders to prioritise investment in public health and medical research.

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World (Gift Article) Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

Thanks to US administration run by billionaires:
“People will die,” “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

Thank you @AnnelieseDodds for sticking to humanity's moral values
" these cuts will remove food and healthcare from desperate people - deeply harming the UK's reputation.”

I hope @Keir_Starmer look for ways to increase revenue by taxing billionaires instead of cutting aid.

As Trump dismantles global health, Gates's complicity draws outrage Foundation insiders I interviewed decry Gates's cowardly capitulation--another example of the billionaire class bending the knee to Trump.

@timschwab.bsky.social
"we are reaching a tipping point with the way that extreme wealth corrupts democracy"

Why has Bill Gates suddenly gone quiet on #aid for poor people's health ? He has not even talked about vaccines-his favourite life saviour?

timschwab.substack.com/p/as-trump-a...