Kathy Erb
@kathyerb.bsky.social
Communications Director at Christian Connections for International Health (CCIH).
This is baffling. What is their end game with this? It is likely we will soon see outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in Florida. Who benefits from that? I honestly want to hear the logic.
Today, Governor DeSantis shared his plans to end vaccine requirements in the state of Florida. We are concerned that today's announcement will put children in Florida public schools at higher risk for getting sick and have ripple effects across their community.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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September 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is baffling. What is their end game with this? It is likely we will soon see outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in Florida. Who benefits from that? I honestly want to hear the logic.
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This is the reality of America’s gun crisis — kids traumatized at school while leaders cash checks from the gun lobby.
This is not normal, and it will keep happening until our leaders choose kids over guns.
This is not normal, and it will keep happening until our leaders choose kids over guns.
August 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This is the reality of America’s gun crisis — kids traumatized at school while leaders cash checks from the gun lobby.
This is not normal, and it will keep happening until our leaders choose kids over guns.
This is not normal, and it will keep happening until our leaders choose kids over guns.
Nothing else - ignoring the behavior or speaking out- seemed to help over the last 10 years. Anything that may eventually help stop the nonsense is welcomed.
For years, MAGA partisans have employed various tactics to prevent the imminent pain of cognitive dissonance. Now Newsom is forcing them to see what Trump looks like without the distorting force field created by Trump’s showmanship:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
MAGA World Is So Close to Getting It
Gavin Newsom’s parodies are riling people up—and they don’t quite seem to understand why.
www.theatlantic.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Nothing else - ignoring the behavior or speaking out- seemed to help over the last 10 years. Anything that may eventually help stop the nonsense is welcomed.
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Following this month’s cuts of nearly $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine research, we're revisiting a conversation from February about the ongoing development of an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer.
mRNA Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In the wake of funding cuts to mRNA vaccine research, we revisit a February story about a promising vaccine for pancreatic cancer.
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August 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Following this month’s cuts of nearly $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine research, we're revisiting a conversation from February about the ongoing development of an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer.
As an alum I find this concerning and completely out of line with the party that claimed to support small government. How quickly that changed… wapo.st/3I1kyqJ
U-Va. President Jim Ryan tells board he’ll resign amid DOJ pressure
The extraordinary move comes as the Trump administration has launched investigations into universities to achieve its policy goals.
wapo.st
June 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
As an alum I find this concerning and completely out of line with the party that claimed to support small government. How quickly that changed… wapo.st/3I1kyqJ
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This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
www.politico.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
This….One of the clearest and most moving pieces I have read since the misguided gutting of the US role in global health.
CT's editor-in-chief on PEPFAR: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/06/pepf...
PEPFAR and the Uneasy Conscience of American Christianity - Christianity Today
It was Christianity that taught the world that every person ought to matter. Now is not the time to abandon or betray that truth.
www.christianitytoday.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This….One of the clearest and most moving pieces I have read since the misguided gutting of the US role in global health.
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“If you close a stabilization center, you are literally going to be unhooking children from IVs and sending them home."
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/05/trum...
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/05/trum...
Aid Cuts Could Disrupt Historic Drops in Child and Maternal Mortality - Christianity Today
With clinics shutting down and orphanages filling up, Christian health workers worry about worsening health outcomes in Africa.
www.christianitytoday.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“If you close a stabilization center, you are literally going to be unhooking children from IVs and sending them home."
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/05/trum...
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/05/trum...
Shout out to @americanair.bsky.social for a great trip thanks to efficient and thoughtful staff at #BTR and #DCA who made traveling with someone with severe mobility issues go smoothly.
April 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Shout out to @americanair.bsky.social for a great trip thanks to efficient and thoughtful staff at #BTR and #DCA who made traveling with someone with severe mobility issues go smoothly.
Please share with Faith Leaders and anyone who could benefit from an explainer about the tremendous loss of #USAID and foreign aid. CCIH head Doug Fountain is speaking tonight at 6 pm EDT in this webinar hosted by @stratprinllc.bsky.social
Faith leaders: Join us for our USAID Briefing Thursday at 6 PM ET! We will address what's happening with USAID and foreign assistance generally and how this relates to the ministry of the global church.
Register using the link on the webpage below.
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Register using the link on the webpage below.
mailchi.mp/40a3884f8856...
Upcoming USAID Briefing on Thursday
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April 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Please share with Faith Leaders and anyone who could benefit from an explainer about the tremendous loss of #USAID and foreign aid. CCIH head Doug Fountain is speaking tonight at 6 pm EDT in this webinar hosted by @stratprinllc.bsky.social
A thoughtful and thorough telling of how the abrupt terminations and inconsistent efforts to restart programs are affecting the lifesaving work of Christian organizations in @christianitytoday.com by @emilybelz.bsky.social #USAID www.christianitytoday.com/2025/03/usai...
The Yo-Yo Between Life and Death in Global Health - Christianity Today
Funding canceled. Funding renewed. New documents show the extent of the Trump administration’s historic aid cuts, and the few programs saved.
www.christianitytoday.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A thoughtful and thorough telling of how the abrupt terminations and inconsistent efforts to restart programs are affecting the lifesaving work of Christian organizations in @christianitytoday.com by @emilybelz.bsky.social #USAID www.christianitytoday.com/2025/03/usai...
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icymi: lots of bad news for people receiving US aid, but last week there were two pieces of good news.
- two big HIV treatment contracts were renewed after being terminated.
- a factory making specialized food for malnourished kids is operational again.
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/03/usai...
- two big HIV treatment contracts were renewed after being terminated.
- a factory making specialized food for malnourished kids is operational again.
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/03/usai...
The Yo-Yo Between Life and Death in Global Health - Christianity Today
Funding canceled. Funding renewed. New documents show the extent of the Trump administration’s historic aid cuts, and the few programs saved.
www.christianitytoday.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
icymi: lots of bad news for people receiving US aid, but last week there were two pieces of good news.
- two big HIV treatment contracts were renewed after being terminated.
- a factory making specialized food for malnourished kids is operational again.
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/03/usai...
- two big HIV treatment contracts were renewed after being terminated.
- a factory making specialized food for malnourished kids is operational again.
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/03/usai...
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Amy Grant signs a letter to Congress calling for the preservation of PEPFAR -
"Twenty million souls for whom 'America'
means generosity, compassion and life."
"Twenty million souls for whom 'America'
means generosity, compassion and life."
March 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Amy Grant signs a letter to Congress calling for the preservation of PEPFAR -
"Twenty million souls for whom 'America'
means generosity, compassion and life."
"Twenty million souls for whom 'America'
means generosity, compassion and life."
Reposted by Kathy Erb
This graphic is for one maternal and child health program my NGO was part of through USAID. Starting in 2021, this cumulative data is the last we have before the #USAIDstopworkorder in January. (We learned last week the order is permanent for this project, along with 94% of all USAID programs.) 1/
March 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This graphic is for one maternal and child health program my NGO was part of through USAID. Starting in 2021, this cumulative data is the last we have before the #USAIDstopworkorder in January. (We learned last week the order is permanent for this project, along with 94% of all USAID programs.) 1/
Sobering but important news from @emilybelz.bsky.social of @christianitytoday.com on the #USAID freeze hurting Christian organizations and the people they care for: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/usai...
Supply Chains Break and Hospitals Shutter After USAID Freeze - Christianity Today
Christian donations can only do so much to fill the gap when facilities grapple with layoffs, scarce drugs, and unanswered questions.
www.christianitytoday.com
February 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Sobering but important news from @emilybelz.bsky.social of @christianitytoday.com on the #USAID freeze hurting Christian organizations and the people they care for: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/usai...
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Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times.
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
February 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times.
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
Thanks for getting her story out there @susankbarnett.bsky.social
I worked on this piece with a mission doctor in Malawi not afraid to speak out. It's a blow-by-blow of the #USAID debacle and those so-called waivers.
thehill.com/opinion/5154...
thehill.com/opinion/5154...
thehill.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Thanks for getting her story out there @susankbarnett.bsky.social
What Christians Can Do in the Face of the US Foreign Aid Freeze www.ccih.org/what-christi... I'm proud of my organization Christian Connections for International Health (CCIH) for putting this together. #USAID #ForeignAid #GlobalDevelopment #HumanitarianAid
What Christians Can Do in the Face of the US Foreign Aid Freeze - CCIH
The recent and abrupt freeze on United States foreign assistance is causing massive disruptions to life-saving work—including the work of Christian organizations—across the globe. CCIH wants to help y...
www.ccih.org
February 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
What Christians Can Do in the Face of the US Foreign Aid Freeze www.ccih.org/what-christi... I'm proud of my organization Christian Connections for International Health (CCIH) for putting this together. #USAID #ForeignAid #GlobalDevelopment #HumanitarianAid
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This is also what I'm hearing from people in the field: life-saving aid that was supposed to be exempted can't restart because the funds remain frozen.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
USAID Lifesaving Aid Remains Halted Despite Rubio’s Promise
A new directive puts further exemptions on hold. Aid workers also say the U.S. government has made it impossible to pay partners around the world.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This is also what I'm hearing from people in the field: life-saving aid that was supposed to be exempted can't restart because the funds remain frozen.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
This is well done. All quotes from Republicans when they were speaking from their lived experience www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOb... @friendsofusaid.bsky.social
Republicans Support Foreign Aid Too
YouTube video by friendsofUSAID
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February 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is well done. All quotes from Republicans when they were speaking from their lived experience www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOb... @friendsofusaid.bsky.social
In the time I've worked in the diverse sphere of Christian global health, I have never seen actions unite us as broadly as the abrupt shutdown of USAID. Thank you @emilybelz.bsky.social for this in Christianity Today with examples of impact.
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/usai...
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/usai...
Is This the End of USAID? - Christianity Today
Christian partners around the world—suddenly fired, defunded, and without answers—worry that the new administration is done with the development agency.
www.christianitytoday.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In the time I've worked in the diverse sphere of Christian global health, I have never seen actions unite us as broadly as the abrupt shutdown of USAID. Thank you @emilybelz.bsky.social for this in Christianity Today with examples of impact.
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/usai...
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/usai...
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New statement from ELWA Hospital, a mission hospital in Liberia that was at the forefront of Ebola care -
viral load testing has stopped. Pediatric supplies exhausted.
viral load testing has stopped. Pediatric supplies exhausted.
February 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
New statement from ELWA Hospital, a mission hospital in Liberia that was at the forefront of Ebola care -
viral load testing has stopped. Pediatric supplies exhausted.
viral load testing has stopped. Pediatric supplies exhausted.