Amesika Nyaku, MD, MS

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Right now, the U.S. is withholding over $4 billion in promised funding for PEPFAR and the Global Fund—initiatives PIH Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer helped shape.

These delays put millions of lives at risk and threaten decades of global health progress.

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From improvised #HIV cocktails in the early 2000's with harsh side effects to today’s long-acting injections, Moses Superchargers story shows how #HIVResearch has transformed lives.

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Vox has a very good article explaining the mess that just happened at the Supreme Court. In the end, they are ensuring that no matter what happens to the canceled grants, there’s no chance of resolving fast enough to matter for the work or PIs. Struck a death blow www.vox.com/scotus/45886...

This action by the NJ Senate must be reversed. #Medicaid is the largest payor of opioid prevention, recovery, and treatment services but those funds are not enough. This action double downs on the harms.

That’s not how the opioid settlement funds work and this is bypassing the role of the Advisory Council. I am a former member and allocation of the funding underwent an extensive vetting process that incorporated the input of community, advocates, and health professionals. #harmreduction

An Open Letter from Members of the NJ Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund Advisory Council — Council members urge state lawmakers to reverse the raid of opioid settlement funds and restore funding for evidence-based overdose prevention services.

As publicly appointed members of the Council, we are deeply alarmed by this decision and what it means for the future of New Jersey’s overdose prevention efforts. This diversion takes funding away from lifesaving harm reduction services, housing programs, medication assisted treatment and recovery services, and wraparound support that were already approved.

We strongly urge lawmakers to immediately reverse the diversion of opioid settlement funds, restore funding to evidence-based programs our Council recommended, and prevent this from happening again with lockbox protections on how these funds can be used.

New Jersey is taking the dangerous step of compounding the harms of the #biguglybill by diverting opioid settlement funds to 4 hospitals to address budgetary shortfalls from the anticipated #Medicaid cuts.

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.

A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.

If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

🚨BREAKING: IDSA, along with AAP, APHA, ACP and others, has filed a lawsuit against HHS/Secretary Kennedy to stop unlawful changes to vaccine policy and defend public health.

We refuse to stand by while America’s public health safeguards are torn apart. bit.ly/4lm7UkW

Exclusive: NIH still screens grants in process a judge ruled illegal Directives by the Trump administration are still being applied to grant materials despite court order.

News today shows that despite a court ruling that accuse NIH grants cannot be terminated based on words deemed inappropriate by the new administration/DOGE, NIH continue to screen grants in such a way

This week’s meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, was politicized, chaotic and not transparent.

Our statement: bit.ly/3ZPB0jO

Following court order, NIH ceases new terminations of politically sensitive grants After a judge told agency to restore hundreds of killed grants, NIH backs off plans to cancel more existing projects

Breaking news: The National Institutes of Health has ceased terminating grants on politically sensitive topics after a federal judge ruled last week that the cancellations were illegal.
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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

It’s been 2 weeks since we sent the #BethesdaDeclaration.

Nearly 30 thousand people have signed, including patients, family, advocates, friends, neighbors, academics & Nobel Laureates. Add your name to the growing list!
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Red states and blue states alike

Equal opportunity damage to biomedical research and the US economy

Now CDC workers are speaking out. We need to support them.

Yesterday, when I signed they were aiming for 6000 signatures. Today there are almost 15,000 and they are aiming for 25,000!

If you haven't signed and want to support the scientists at the NIH that are trying to prevent its dismantling, please sign.

You can do it anonymously!

Welcome to the fight #AmericanMedicalAssociation. Good to have you on board.

New moment of “WTF”:

-pt with rare infection (so rare will leave unnamed, as could reveal identity)
-nl times: reach out to CDC for testing
-now: “they confirmed they are not currently accepting specimens for serology…they suggested we could reach out to Canada National Reference Center”

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'The Despised Blood of the Negro Flows Freely in the Veins of Jews'

Shanice McBean writes:
"There has always been an intimate connection between antisemitism and anti-Black racism. In Hitler’s 1928 second book he praises Jim Crow for its integration of racial hierarchy and
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Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Support NIH Staff Now!

I wanted to show support for these brave public servants and to allow others, including the scientific community, to join me. In partnership with @standupforscience.bsky.social‬, we have a way for you to do that... www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

UC Berkeley researchers team up for first-of-its-kind lawsuit over Trump funding cuts University of California staff members hope to use a class action lawsuit to restore their research funding.

Scientists at UC Berkeley have filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin, accusing of politically motivated cuts to funding.

“I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people,” says Sabeeha Merchant, Berkeley professor.
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Holy crap. Ron Johnson just proudly admitted that the GQP Senate is going to come after Medicare, not just Medicaid.
Contact every Senator you can.
Tell them to #StopTheBillionaireBailoutBill

Hands off our healthcare!

#DemVoice
#DemsUnited
#USDemocracy
#voicesForVictory

Two line graphs show NIH Outlays for Grants at Brown University. The left graph, "Outlay per month (USD)," shows monthly outlays from October (P01-P02) to June (P09) for fiscal years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. The 2025 line (black) shows outlays around $15,000,000 from October 2024 to March 2025, then drops sharply to $0 in April 2025 and remains at $0 for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years remain above $10,000,000 throughout the period. The right graph, "Percent of grants without an outlay," shows the percentage of grants without monthly outlays over the same period. The 2025 line (black) shows percentages below 10% until March 2025, then spikes to 100% in April 2025 and remains at 100% for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years remain below 20%.

Two line graphs show NIH Outlays for Grants at Columbia University. The left graph, "Outlay per month (USD)," shows monthly outlays from October (P01-P02) to June (P09) for fiscal years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. The 2025 line (black) shows outlays between $40,000,000 and $60,000,000 from October 2024 to March 2025, then drops sharply to approximately $20,000,000 in April 2025 and to $0 in May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years fluctuate but remain generally above $25,000,000. The right graph, "Percent of grants without an outlay," shows the percentage of grants without monthly outlays over the same period. The 2025 line (black) shows percentages below 20% until March 2025, then spikes to 100% in April 2025 and remains at 100% for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years remain mostly below 20%.

Two line graphs show NIH Outlays for Grants at Cornell University. The left graph, "Outlay per month (USD)," shows monthly outlays from October (P01-P02) to June (P09) for fiscal years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. The 2025 line (black) shows outlays between $10,000,000 and $20,000,000 from October 2024 to March 2025, then drops to $0 in April 2025 and remains at $0 for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years show some variability but generally stay above $0, with some dips. The right graph, "Percent of grants without an outlay," shows the percentage of grants without monthly outlays over the same period. The 2025 line (black) shows percentages below 20% until March 2025, then spikes to 100% in April 2025 and remains at 100% for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years show more variability than Harvard and Northwestern, with some spikes, as well, but returning to normal levels after.

Two line graphs show NIH Outlays for Grants at Northwestern University. The left graph, "Outlay per month (USD)," shows monthly outlays from October (P01-P02) to June (P09) for fiscal years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. The 2025 line (black) shows outlays around $30,000,000 from October 2024 to March 2025, then drops sharply to $0 in April 2025 and remains at $0 for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years remain above $25,000,000 throughout the period. The right graph, "Percent of grants without an outlay," shows the percentage of grants without monthly outlays over the same period. The 2025 line (black) shows percentages below 15% until March 2025, then spikes to 100% in April 2025 and remains at 100% for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years remain below 20%.

NEW at grant-watch.us: Emma Mairson and Marian Jarlenski report on funding freezes at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern, that have received zero payments for #NIH grants since the start of April: grant-watch.us/posts/trends...

Worried Northwestern lab directors describe ‘bleak’ atmosphere in wake of Trump research funding freeze The Trump administration’s freezing of $790 million in federal research funding for Northwestern University has left concerned lab directors without key grants and forced the university to spend mi…

I helped explain to the Chicago Tribune the enourmous and irrational damage the NIH funding freeze is causing at Northwestern. “You’re at risk of losing an entire next generation of scientists" "it’s terrifying; it’s completely senseless." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/07/w...

With the President releasing his proposed FY26 budget that completely guts federal and global HIV prevention initiatives, as well as cutting NIH funding by 40%, we must act now! Call your representatives, local and federal! Speak up and tell them these cuts will kill

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Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban? The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?

Hey, here’s one of the most extensive and thorough literature reviews, performed by the state of Utah, on the benefits of adolescent gender affirming care. They also go through the flaws of previous reports that are being publicized. This care saves lives!!

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YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken Health Insurance Companies Don’t Care About You

I made this video 2 years ago. I had a lot of people tell me I was being dramatic. Now we know UNH are pushing nursing home to get residents to sign DNRs. I’m so glad people are waking up.
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