"There was also not enough time for scientists to properly shut down the laboratories before they were locked out from their email systems and the building, two CDC officials said, with equipment still running and hazardous materials left unattended."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-cdc-labs-stds-hepatitis/
Massive, Unarchivable #Datasets of #Cancer, #Covid, #HIV and #Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before RFK announced 10,000 #HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on #NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review." Unlike other government datasets or web pages, downloading or otherwise archiving NIH data often requires a Data Use Agreement between a researcher institution and the agency.
https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/
https://archive.ph/Y8asq
#stem #science #publichealth #hiv #spiffy #Barcelona #Spain
Molecular stool test could improve detection of tuberculosis in adults with HIV. Poop - is there anything it can't doo?
#YourLocalEpidemiologist #YLE #KatelynJetelina
Why we keep going
Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately.
#HIV #Asthma #airQuality #EnvironmentalHazard
#GunViolence #Communications #workersafety
#ReproductiveHealth #BirthDefects #DisabilityHealth
#TB_Prevention #BloodDisorder
#DrugUse #MentalHealth
#LeadPoisoning #WaterSafety
#TobaccoControl
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/why-we-keep-going
#HealthCare #us #usa #sectarian #kleptofascist #billionaire #looter
A constitutional challenge has been launched against the federal government, pushing to end “deeply stigmatizing” regulations that prohibit organ donations by gay men. #organdonation #canada #healthcanada #HIV #medicine #gay
https://www.thestar.com/news/why-can-t-this-toronto-man-be-an-organ-donor-charter-challenge-highlights-stigmatizing-rules/article_a085cc7f-01fa-443c-abf6-6b5ec8ba9cb6.html#:~:text=The%20regulations%20state%20that%20the,testing%20procedures%20already%20in%20place.
From WTVR Richmond: Why Capital Area Health Network will no longer offer HIV/AIDS services: 'What is happening?'
A decline in funding for #HIV response could result in millions of preventable new infections and deaths, with up to 120 000 of these deaths affecting children according to World Health Organization #OMS #WHO
International cooperation is essential to sustain the advances we’ve made in HIV prevention, testing and treatment.
#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #HHS #Vaccines #HIV
From CBSNews.com: RFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-to-gut-vaccine-promotion-and-hiv-prevention-office-sources-say/
Is he actually trying to kill everyone?
If his goal was to kill everyone, I can't see what it is that he would do differently.
Does anyone know what RFK's endgame is, or even whether it is thought he has an end game?
Shouldn't we be calling all the senators who confirmed him, and asking them what are they going to do now?
“Tuberculosis is so often, and in so many ways, a disease of vicious cycles: It's an illness of #poverty that worsens poverty. It's an illness that worsens other illnesses from #HIV to #diabetes. It's an illness of weak #healthcare systems that weakens healthcare systems. It's an illness of malnutrition that worsens malnutrition. And it's an illness of the stigmatized that worsens #stigmatization. In the face of all this, it's easy to despair.” (p. 159)
Via Dave Levitan:
Per a source with knowledge, the entire #HHS Office of #InfectiousDisease & #HIV / #AIDS Policy, or #OIDP, was just fired.
Tell me this is not all at the direction of #putin. The #Trump administration has terminated more than 5,300 #grants and #contracts managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development #USAID worth more than $27 billion, according to a document obtained by POLITICO. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000195-d4ba-dc7d-add5-f6fe93e40000 #foreign #aid #statedepartment #budget #vaccines #food #healthcare #HIV #AIDS
This breaks my heart.
The Trump/Musk regime want to take us back to the days of HIV/AIDS "killing all the right people" with MAGA Republicans cheering on the virus.
U.S. President Donald Trump's foreign aid retreat is gutting funding for HIV treatments, risking lives globally and threatening to unravel decades of progress toward ending AIDS as a public health threat. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/27/world/politics/trump-foreign-aid-hiv-globally/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #republicans #donaldtrump #hiv #africa #vaccines
NIH cuts halt 24-year program to prevent HIV/AIDS in adolescents and young adults - #PublicHealth #HIV #AIDS #NIH https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/25/nih-cuts-include-hiv-aids-prevention-program-for-adolescents/
Prince Harry said he was "in shock" after quitting as a patron of Sentebale, a British charity he set up to help young people with HIV and AIDS in Lesotho and Botswana, following a conflict between trustees and the chair of the board. @USAToday reports:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/03/26/prince-harry-resigns-sentebale-charity-africa/82668656007/
"Last week the U.S. government terminated at least 68 grants to 46 institutions totaling nearly $40 million when awarded, according to a government website. Some of the grant money has already been spent, but at least $1.36 million in future support was yanked as a result of the cuts, a significant undercount because estimates were available for less than a third of grants."
https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-research-grants-terminated-trump-5b2810312de1420ca3df875314b0a1e9
