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Habiba Banu 🔸

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Co-founder http://spiro.ngo - TB screening and prevention charity focused on children 🔸 10% Pledge #103 with @givingwhatwecan.bsky.social

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Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · Nov 20

Happy 15th Birthday to @givingwhatwecan.bsky.social!

I took a pledge back in 2011 at University and it's one of the things I'm proudest of.

Since then I've moved jobs, cities and even changed my name. I've kept effective giving a part of my life and now I'm even on GWWC's UK board!

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Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · Jul 25

Palestine demo right now at Downing Street. Stop Starving Gaza

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Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · Jul 25

Human made mass starvation in Gaza. People being shot waiting for food.
This is utterly unconscionable.
I’ll be at the Downing St protest tonight.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza

For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

www.theguardian.com

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · May 23

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · May 24

Trump held up a printed picture of people lifting body bags and said, "These are all white farmers that are being buried.”

The image actually shows humanitarian workers burying bodies in the city of Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo. They are not white, not farmers, and not South African.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · May 24

Not that it needs to be said, but the "white genocide of South Africans" narrative is conspiratorial horseshit all the way down
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Trump makes false claims of white genocide in South Africa during Ramaphosa meeting

U.S. President Donald Trump made several false statements and misrepresented some facts about the alleged persecution of South Africa's white minority during a contentious Oval Office meeting on Wednesday with President Cyril Ramaphosa.

www.reuters.com

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Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · May 22

And a kitty to add to the collection!

Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · May 18

I’m a huge Eurovision fan.

It is a travesty they haven’t kicked out Israel who are literally carrying out a plausible genocide right now.
Absolutely shocking televote result.

Huge props to the Palestinian activists in the stadium despite the broadcasters editing out the boo and the #FreePalestine

Peppe Besozzi @peppe-p-94.bsky.social · May 15

LA foto #escita #eurovision

Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · May 18

Timelapse of the second half of the Palestine demo yesterday from just after Westminster bridge to Downing St hundreds of thousands came to say #FreePalestine

Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · May 18

Some very good boys spotted this weekend. Bark-tivists!

#FreePalestine

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Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · May 17

Historian @willdalrymple.bsky.social speaking next to the colonial office where Palestine used to be run, saying this country has a historic responsibility to fix the harm it caused and work to establish a Palestinian state

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Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · May 17

Palestinians holding symbolic keys to commemorate the Nakbah and mark the 3/4 million Palestinians made refugees in 1948 and denied their right to return to this day.

Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · May 17

Israel has launched yet another offensive against Gaza - with the death toll already over 53,000 people and no aid entering for the last 2 months.
Surely surely surely enough is enough. We are so far beyond any reasonable self-defensive right now, this is plausibly genocidal.

Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · May 17

How depressing is that the new chants in rotation now are:

“Stop bombing hospitals”

And

“Stop killing children”

Just a basic plea

Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · May 17

At the #Palestine demo in London today.

I’ve been going to demos like this for over a decade and I used to find them uplifting.

There’s a chant we used to do:
Gaza Gaza don’t you cry
We will never let you die

Just thinking of that now makes me cry. Because despite years it’s still happening

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Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · May 9

In the conversations critiquing how much is spent on humanitarian aid…

remember we all spend more on Netflix than humanitarian aid

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Katherine Horton @kchorton.bsky.social · Apr 27

#USAID was the largest bilateral donor to the #TB response, contributing 19% of international donor funding in 2022. We estimate that the elimination of #USAID funding may lead to 1,390,900 million additional episodes of symptomatic TB and 420,500 TB deaths over the next 10 years. 2/8

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WHO @who.int · Apr 25

Ending #malaria is not just a health imperative; it is an investment in a more equitable, safer and prosperous future for every nation.

On #WorldMalariaDay, let’s Reinvest, Reimagine, and Reignite so that Malaria Ends with Us.

Malaria ends with us. Reinvest, Reimagine and Reignite.

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CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · Apr 15

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Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · Apr 15

Watched this unreported world report on Sudan

www.channel4.com/programmes/u...

Really sad but important. Also some really impressive people helping their communities as best they can

Unreported World - Crisis in Sudan: The Fight for Survival

A report on Sudan's forgotten conflict of displaced millions, war crimes and famine

www.channel4.com

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Apr 11

@scientificdiscovery.dev writes on the devastating impact of foreign aid cuts from rich nations.

www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/we-dont-ha...

We don't have to sit back and just watch the horror unfold

This month, I signed a pledge to donate at least 10% of my lifetime income to effective charities.

www.scientificdiscovery.dev

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Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · Apr 9

There have been devestating aid cuts. The team behind proimpact.tools have been working flat out to triage and identify the programs to save - lives are on the line

If you know any major donors or foundations looking to provide bridge funding this is the resource to share.

Project Resource Optimization

proimpact.tools

Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · Mar 24

On World TB Day "The fight against TB isn’t over — unless we decide to let it be"

medium.com/@abeauneu/th...

The Loud, Cruel End of America’s Fight Against Tuberculosis

On March 24, the world will mark World Tuberculosis Day — though in much of the world, the alarm bells are already ringing. In Harare, Zimbabwe, Nurse Chiedza Makura starts her day with the same…

medium.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Mar 23

Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week

Israel continues to batter territory in renewed offensive as Palestinian officials say death toll of war has passed 50,000 Malnutrition is spreading in Gaza, medics and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory are warning, as a total Israeli blockade of all supplies enters its fourth week. There has been no sign that Israel will open entry points to allow essential aid to flow or ease its new offensive in Gaza, which started on Tuesday with a wave of airstrikes that killed 400 people, mostly civilians, ending two months of relative calm. On Sunday, Palestinian officials said the total death toll from nearly 18 months of conflict had passed 50,000. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · Mar 19

Gutting USAID is awful and illegal. Maybe the most terrible thing Trump / Musk have ever done.

www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-f...

"There is no statute that authorizes the Executive Branch to shut down USAID... Congress alone has the constitutional authority to... eliminate agencies it has created."

Judge finds Elon Musk and DOGE's shutdown of USAID likely unconstitutional

U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled in favor of a group of more than two dozen unnamed former and current USAID employees and contractors.

www.cbsnews.com

Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social · Mar 12

It’s a real “looking sad, throwing batarang in the vicinity of the UN” time in global health right now