Matthew Kavanagh

The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theory

This piece is worth a read by all the journalists reporting on the “lab leak” theory of COVID as if there wasn’t a serious, organized political strategy using the reality of uncertainty in an intentional, right wing project
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...

Oh will you look at that, vaccines are superior to just letting everyone get sick… who could have predicted?

US CDC staff assisting Penobscot County amid unprecedented HIV outbreak A CDC team is in Penobscot County to address an unprecedented HIV outbreak linked to homelessness and drug use, aiming to shape Maine's long-term health response.

Inequality prolongs pandemics and undermines effective response.
Case in point: Maine tackling the state’s biggest HIV outbreak in memory
www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...

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Hello DC snow

Woah…

I wonder how we differentiate positive “country-led” moves from wealthy govts using that language for abandoning solidarity and responsibility? US, EU I think using this rhetoric quite cynically…

"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."

Our latest Newsletter is live! Highlights include the new inequality-pandemic cycle report, @drtlaleng.bsky.social's Right to Health report, and Attiya Waris's talk on fiscal architectures.

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Diagnostics Equity Consortium - Center for Global Health Policy and Politics About Diagnosis is a fundamental component of health care and surveillance, and a major driver of economic and health outcomes across health systems. Yet the importance of timely access to diagnostics...

At #Union2025 Tapiwa Kujinga and the Diagnostics Equity Consortium (DEC) calls for doubling the number of #TB tests performed by 2030 and rapid rollout of innovative near point-of-care TB tests. DEC is hosted by the @ghpp.georgetown.edu and PATAM.

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Congrats Josh!

It’s World AIDS Day and aids activists are calling out Trump Admin cuts to global HIV

Proud to be 1 of 1,000 DC residents helping the brilliant
@janeese4dc.bsky.social today break the record to qualify for public financing for DC Mayor. #Groundswell. Sorry if u got multiple texts from me asking you to join.
DC deserves an ambitious, strategic mayor
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There is no evidence linking COVID-19 vaccines to deaths in children. There is evidence that COVID causes serious harm — including long COVID, MIS-C, cardiac complications & diabetes.

This administration’s actions are dangerous, and the damage to the public and children may be irreversible

Reminder: all drugs have risks. Vaccines to prevent among healthy face higher bar. That’s the point.
COVID has killed a lot of kids. Flu even more.
Dr Prasad’s moves here are deadly and intentional.

FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.

Lying w data can kill people.
👇worst than most b/c US official using PR tactics to actively build mistrust that will echo around the world. Development of risk/benefit analysis at FDA has helped build model that saved millions of lives worldwide. Here instead we have 19th century thinking…

The Trump administration has joined the war on HIV/AIDS, on the side of HIV/AIDS.

Trump Administration Says It Will Not Commemorate World AIDS Day

Mr President: refusing to recognize World AIDS Day does not make AIDS go away, but it does make you look small and highlight all the ways you are failing on public health.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...

Reminder that only for some people and some countries are “we” in the “post-pandemic” and able to move on to other issues.

Proud to share this great work led by Dr Agrata Sharma

This is because South Africa “prioritised issues that are important for advancing more rapid and inclusive growth in our own country….”

A great divergence as African countries embrace science to extend life expectancy while the US and Canada see movements growing in power that do the opposite and lose/move toward losing elimination status.

The use of passive voice here is doing so much work… I just wonder who it might be who could make this tragedy that needs to stop, stop?

Canada reduced its pledge from $1.2bn to $1.02bn. The first time Canada has cut its contribution to HIV-AIDS, and a sign of the times under Carney

Still, could have been worse, and it's in line with other donors' 15% cuts

Important, complex day on AIDS, TB, Malaria. Those saying Global Fund is dead=wrong. US surprise $4.6b pledge, total $11.34b. South Africa, India, New Zealand, Cote D'Ivoire, foundations increase. BUT still billions short of what's needed. France, EC, Japan missing in action. Complex....

Our colleagues at the Union Conference this week are making waves…

White House Says South Africa’s President Is ‘Running His Mouth’

the disrespect, the racism, the anti-strategic interests of this White House vs SAfrica is just so galling.
Glad Pres Ramaposa clapped back that he won’t be handing the g20 presidency over to a charge d’affairs 😒
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/w...

Trump’s war on South Africa betrays a sinister threat Trump’s attacks on South Africa expose an old Western reflex to punish African sovereignty.

Trump’s attacks on South Africa expose an old Western reflex to punish African sovereignty… Tafi Mhaka
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Great to be with Joy Phumaphi today at Georgetown to talk about the “America First” global health strategy.
We talked about fiscal space, real drivers of health, and why the end if the aid model is not the end of global health. @gtownsoh.bsky.social

Trump Officials Are Policing Words and Foiling Deals at G20 Summit

🔗Please read John Eligon's excellent article on the link below 👇👇👇

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...