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Emily Evans

@emilyevs.bsky.social

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ID fellow at Emory University. Interested in HIV and opportunistic infections. Aspiring brothmonger and quirky artist

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Sep 2

In the State of Georgia, it is now easier to buy a gun than it is to get a COVID booster vaccine.
Pretty crazy stuff.

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Emily Evans @emilyevs.bsky.social · Sep 2

You’re amazing for compiling this! Thank you!

Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.

The end of an era.

insidemedicine.substack.com

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · Aug 27

wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them?

This is an insane person.

Acyn
@Acyn
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RFK JR: I'm looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation-you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection

TEXAS "MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN" LEGISLATION
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
Health & Human Services Secretary
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From CSPAN
C-SPANG*
15:04 • 8/27/25

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The Lancet Primary Care @lancetprimarycare.bsky.social · Jul 31

🆕In their Comment, @emilyevs.bsky.social ‬and @boghuma.bsky.social discuss the new Article published by Ned Latham and Colleagues on fully vaccinated individuals with mpox in NSW, Australia
Read here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Protection that lasts? MVA-BN against clade IIb mpox

Clade IIb monkeypox virus infection was first declared a public health emergency of international concern in 2022. The global outbreak was largely driven by sexual transmission, primarily among men wh...

www.thelancet.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 22

The spread of measles in the Southwest now constitutes the largest single outbreak since the U.S. declared the disease eliminated in 2000, federal scientists told state officials in a meeting on Monday.

Measles Surge in Southwest Is Now the Largest Single Outbreak Since 2000

Growing case numbers suggest that national total will surpass that seen during the last large outbreak in 2019.

www.nytimes.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Apr 19

What a great piece by @arstechnica.com: "This moment calls out for moral clarity and resolve. It asks universities to take their mission in society seriously and to resist being co-opted by government forces." arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be.

Opinion: It’s time for public resistance.

arstechnica.com

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Apr 18

Even when we’re cast as villains, those of us working in infectious diseases still have a vital role to play. In this reflection, I share how I’m continuing to show up for patients, for public health, and for the next generation even when it’s hard.
open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj...

This Is How I Keep Showing Up

A infectious diseases physician’s reflections on trust, defiance, and public health in a time of outrage

open.substack.com

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · Apr 15

The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Apr 7

Beside measles outbreaks, we are likely to see resurgence of:
- HIV
- Tuberculosis
- STIs (Syphilis, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea)
- A worse flu season
- other vaccine preventable diseases.
Because that's what happens when you gut public health, defund research and promote vaccine misinformation.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Apr 7

he did this just *after* going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl.

he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Emily Evans @emilyevs.bsky.social · Apr 6

Atlanta showed up in a big way yesterday. Love this city 💜

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Apr 6

We expected hundreds of thousands of people yesterday.

Instead, millions of Americans flooded the streets to demand an end to Trump’s authoritarian power grab.

Trump and Musk have spent their first 75 days in office trying to overwhelm us and make us feel powerless, but we’re not going anywhere.

A photo from Indivisible Santa Barbara on Instagram. Thousands of people stand together on the beach in a way that spells “HANDS OFF!”

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · Apr 6

RFK Jr. Guts Teams That Share Health Information With the Public. The health secretary had promised “radical transparency,” but fired communications teams in the Health and Human Services Department, by @maggieastor.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/w... via @nytimes.com #infodemic #journalism

Kennedy Guts Teams That Share Health Information With the Public

The health secretary had promised “radical transparency,” but fired communications teams in the Health and Human Services Department.

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. David Boulware, MD MPH @drboulware.bsky.social · Mar 14

PEPFAR accomplishments to date

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HIVMA @hivma.bsky.social · Mar 11

At the Save Our Sciences Rally for HIV Research! Past HIVMA Chair, Carlos del Rio @docdelrio.bsky.social , applauded the role of NIH in making the U.S. a leader in biomedical research and a major driver of economies and the importance of reauthorizing the lifesaving PEPFAR program.

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · Mar 11

News from #CROI2025: Two more people appear to be free of HIV after stem cell transplants for cancer treatment. If these men remain in remission, they will be the 8th & 9th known cases of a functional cure after the procedure.

www.poz.com/article/two-...

Two More People May Be Cured of HIV After Stem Cell Transplants

One experienced viral rebound after an initial treatment interruption but remains in remission after stopping antiretrovirals a second time.

www.poz.com

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Mar 6

Global Toll of US Tuberculosis Funding Cuts

Grim results of a modeling study on what US funding cuts to TB projects might mean

TB deaths are projected to increase by 99,800 (minimal impact scenario), 268,600 (moderate impact), and 2,243,700 (worst case scenario)

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Mar 6

The Stand Up For Science rallies are tomorrow! With the attacks on science, this seems more important than ever.

See how you can participate: standupforscience2025.org

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

standupforscience2025.org

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Mar 4

The global fund will roll out twice yearly Lenacapavir for prevention of HIV with or without #PEPFAR. Now the US contributes 30% of the global fund donations which is likely to disappear. Still important the fund is not backing away from this commitment 👏🏼.
bhekisisa.org/health-news-...

The Global Fund will roll out the twice-yearly anti-HIV jab — with or without Pepfar - Bhekisisa

The major backer of the lenacapavir roll-out is assuring nervous researchers that they will keep their part of funding promises. It’s a good economic investment, says the Fund’s Peter Sands, into a ga...

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IAS - the International AIDS Society @iasociety.bsky.social · Feb 19

🌍 "Early impacts of the #PEPFAR stop-work order: a rapid assessment"

📰 Check out these new field notes in the Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) and join the call to #SavePEPFAR!

<em>Journal of the International AIDS Society</em> | IAS HIV Research Journal | Wiley Online Library

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Feb 18

This is remarkable. The last of 8 patients who tested positive for Ebola Sudan has been discharged. Now the 42 day count down to this outbreak being officially declared over is on.
Only 1 fatality is a remarkable feat.🤞
Kudos to front line responders in #Uganda
www.independent.co.uk/news/ebola-u...

Uganda discharges the last Ebola patients. No new deaths from the contagious virus reported

Uganda health authorities say they discharged the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola

www.independent.co.uk

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Feb 18

The global South is leading in keeping us all safe.
1.Rwanda &Tanzania contained marburg outbreaks
2.Uganda is fighting Ebola
3. DRC is fighting #mpox
Knowledge can flow from the global South to North. With CDC EIS gutted, consider Africa CDC's AES
www.globalsouthopportunities.com/2025/02/17/a...

Africa CDC Call for Applications: The African Epidemic Service Program 2025 (AES) - Empowering Africa's Public Health Workforce - Global South Opportunities

In an increasingly interconnected world, the rapid spread of disease can pose significant challenges to public health systems. The African continent, with its

www.globalsouthopportunities.com

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Dr. David Boulware, MD MPH @drboulware.bsky.social · Feb 6

While there is general concern, WHO has stepped up in the interim to fill the gap left by US abandoning biodefense role that US has historically supported. Realizing that we live in an interconnected world.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/som...

As Trump shuts down USAID missions, officials warn Ebola outbreak in Uganda will spread

Americans are among those exposed to the virus in Uganda.

www.cbsnews.com

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Apoorv Suresh @apoorvsuresh.bsky.social · Feb 6

The Trump administration’s sweeping actions—withdrawal from WHO, halting USAID, freezing Medicaid funds, and crippling the NIH & CDC—are an assault on global & public health

Read The Lancet's Editorial
@thelancet.bsky.social

#health #who #us #nih #cdc #globalhealth #publichealth #usaid #trump

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Feb 4

"Don't give in to cynicism or apathy. That's what the people promulgating these horrible policies want - a bored, indifferent public who figures that who cares, nothing matters any more, it's gonna happen no matter what...Never forget that: it doesn't have to happen"
www.science.org/content/blog...

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

www.science.org

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · Feb 4

Censor CDC scientists and ask them to withdraw papers from medical journals?

This is not how it works, Mr President.

Our response @bmj.com on the Trump Executive Order and his "forbidden words"

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

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Feb 4

Imagine going to your doctor and being told the treatment plan for whatever ails you has to align with an executive order of the President.This is where we are headed.
The banner now adorning the CDC website pages on various treatment guidelines is most sinister.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Feb 3

1. The #WHO does immense good in global public health.
2. The #WHO needs reform
3. US Support of the #WHO is essential and withdrawal of its support and membership from the organization is detrimental
4. The #WHO will survive without the US as will global health.
All of these statements are true.

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Pranay Sinha @tbtakenseriously.bsky.social · Feb 3

The richest man in the world wants us to stop feeding the poorest in the world.