Harry Moultrie

CARLOS ALCARAZ RETAINS HIS CROWN 🏆

The Spaniard comes back to win a five-set thriller for the ages to defeat Jannik Sinner 4-6, 6-7, 6-4, 7-6, 7-6 and capture his second straight title at Roland Garros.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

[BREAKING] Trump ends SA’s HIV and TB research grants - Bhekisisa Cancellation letters, which end millions of rands of South African universities’ US-government funded HIV and TB research grants with immediate effect, started to roll in over the weekend. Fears are r...

BREAKING: Message from the Trump administration ending SA’s HIV + TB research grants: “Diversity, equity, and inclusion studies … harms the health of Americans. Therefore, it is the policy of NIH not to prioritise such research programmes.” bhekisisa.org/health-news-...

“Orchestrated assault”: New tsunami of NIH grant cuts hits South Africa hard Agency moves to terminate nearly 1000 awards, including programs involving “DEI”

Exclusive from me and Jon Cohen @science.org: NIH is terminating nearly 1000 grants in a series of batches. One, which conducts HIV and TB clinical trials in South Africa, was labelled as a "DEI" study that "harms the health of Americans." www.science.org/content/arti...

Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) OverviewTopic AreasMore InformationOverviewATN is the only multicenter research network in the United States devoted to the health and well-being of adolescents and young adults living with or at risk...

Horrible news - The Adolescent Medicine Trials Networks for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) funded by the NIH has just been terminated.

Stopping a clinical trial mid-course like this is insane.

www.nichd.nih.gov/research/sup...

Exactly

RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread (Gift Article) The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.

The Great Barrington Declaration, but for chickens.

RFK Jr. is truly the stupidest motherfucker.

No More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by Men Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint...

NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership

This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny

Opinion | Will They Come for PubMed Next? Here's what we lose if the administration takes away this invaluable resource

PubMed has been down for at least 11 hours and we are EXTREMELY concerned. We hope it’s mere incompetence and not an official action. If any of our followers have media events today, please mention it.

Not working in South Africa on Safari

So one of the best things I learned about how the government works was when I took that gov docs class for my MLIS. Certain things can’t happen unless they are published in the National Register.

NIH funding is one of those things.

Effects of conditional cash transfers and pre-test and post-test tuberculosis counselling on patient outcomes and loss to follow-up across the continuum of care in South Africa: a randomised controlle... The package of interventions consisting of pre-test and post-test tuberculosis counselling with conditional cash transfers significantly reduced the risk of unsuccessful tuberculosis patient outcomes,...

New reserch: Effects of conditional cash transfers and pre-test and post-test tuberculosis counselling on patient outcomes and loss to follow-up across the continuum of care in South Africa: a randomised controlled trial

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

3/ "Notably absent from the waivers approved so far are critical global health programs such as PEPFAR, the U.S. flagship global HIV program.

'This is a halt to work that is saving lives around the world,' said Asia Russell, executive director of Health GAP."

Trump’s sudden suspension of foreign aid puts millions of lives in Africa at risk Imprecise executive order leaves health providers dependent on PEPFAR funding unsure if or when money will arrive

groundup.org.za/article/trum...

Not just America, but globally.

Impounding funds appropriated by Congress is unconstitutional, but so is everything else they’re doing

Scientists confront a mystery: Why have U.S. bird flu cases been so mild? The H5N1 bird flu outbreak in the U.S. has so far been shockingly mild. Researchers have some theories as to why.

Scientists who have studied #H5N1 #birdflu for years are flummoxed by the lack of severe cases among the 55 human cases the US has confirmed this year. I talked to lots to explore the theories of what's going on. www.statnews.com/2024/12/02/b...

Thanks Yassen, but the link to the starter pack results in ‘page not found’

JAMA leads the way. Again.

Taking a short break from #UnionConf2024 to migrate from Twitter (never X) to BlueSky.

Taking a longer break from work to write some papers and ponder next moves.

Interests: TB, HIV, health systems.