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Andrew Green
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Global health correspondent. Dispatches from the frontlines of the suddenly uncertain global AIDS response: https://theforsaken.substack.com/. 2025 Alicia Patterson Fellow.
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Devex @devex.com · 5d
Could taxes fix the global health funding crisis?

With traditional donors cutting foreign aid, taxes are seen as a way developing countries could raise revenue to tackle global health threats.

However, as @theandrewgreen.bsky.social highlights, questions remain over its implementation.

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 9d
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 9d
The Trump admin intends to exclude NGOs from its global health work moving forward. To emphasize that, officials kicked the Global Health Council out of an event at an UNGA side event last week: www.devex.com/news/trump-s... via @alterigoe.bsky.social
Trump's 'America First' global health plan sidelines NGOs
A U.S.-based global health NGO was denied entry to a U.N. side event on the future of U.S. global health aid. It put a sharp edge on the Trump administration's plan to work with governments and the pr...
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 12d
The Trump administration has a new, America-first global health policy that celebrates U.S. accomplishments in battling HIV, while excluding the NGOs that made those achievements possible: theforsaken.substack.com/p/a-new-vision
A new vision
Analyzing the Trump administration's new global health strategy
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Thiru Balasubramaniam @thirugeneva.bsky.social · 12d
AstraZeneca’s chief executive, Pascal Soriot, told reporters in July that he agreed with the president about leveling drug prices between the U.S. and its peers. Research and development costs, he said, “should be shared more fairly across rich countries.”
Trump May Try to Force Drugmakers to Match European Prices
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 12d
The Trump administration has a new, America-first global health policy that celebrates U.S. accomplishments in battling HIV, while excluding the NGOs that made those achievements possible: theforsaken.substack.com/p/a-new-vision
A new vision
Analyzing the Trump administration's new global health strategy
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 13d
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 13d
Trade not aid. But also not trade www.ft.com/content/8e9c...
Looming end of US-Africa trade deal set to hit continent’s exporters
If the African Growth and Opportunity Act lapses, success stories such as Lesotho’s jeans manufacturers will be hit
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 13d
In its new global health policy, the Trump administration crows about decades of U.S. investments that have saved 26 million lives. At the same time, though, the strategy condemns the organizations America has partnered with to actually save those lives: theforsaken.substack.com/p/a-new-vision
A new vision
Analyzing the Trump administration's new global health strategy
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 13d
Trump's new global health policy appears eager to cut funding to the NGOs that actually reach communities with HIV services, where government clinics are unable: theforsaken.substack.com/p/a-new-vision
A new vision
Analyzing the Trump administration's new global health strategy
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 13d
In its new global health policy, the Trump administration crows about decades of U.S. investments that have saved 26 million lives. At the same time, though, the strategy condemns the organizations America has partnered with to actually save those lives: theforsaken.substack.com/p/a-new-vision
A new vision
Analyzing the Trump administration's new global health strategy
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 13d
It's important to read this entire thread...
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Asia Russell @asia-ilse.bsky.social · 13d
🚨NEWS today in global #HIV prevention!🚨

Lenacapavir, an HIV prevention shot conferring virtually 100% protection against infection, will be available for $40/yr in 120 countries starting in 2027.

Read www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h... including bad news/good news/what’s next from me >>

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Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 13d
“Lenacapavir holds the potential to defeat the HIV pandemic, if delivered urgently, at scale; any restrictions on access to an affordable generic price for this essential prevention tool is unacceptable.” – @asia-ilse.bsky.social, Health GAP.
Activists Demand $40-a-year Generic Price for Breakthrough HIV Prevention Drug be Made Available to all Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 14d
But activists are still frustrated because Gilead, which controls the patent on the injectable, is limiting the generic to only 115 low- and middle-income countries. That excludes dozens of countries where HIV incidence is rising quickly and w/in communities that cannot afford to pay full price.
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 14d
A breakthrough HIV prevention injection could be available for as little as $40 per person per year thanks to two new partnerships with Indian generic manufacturers: www.devex.com/news/new-par...
New partnerships bring price parity between lenacapavir and oral PrEP
India-based generic manufacturers are expected to produce the highly effective new injection that prevents HIV transmission at $40 — the same price as daily oral PrEP.
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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 14d
The few remaining hospitals and clinics in central and southern Gaza are being overwhelmed by a “tsunami” of injured and sick patients fleeing a new Israeli offensive in the north of the devastated territory, medics say.
‘We are at our limit’: Gaza’s last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south
‘Not enough of anything’, says surgeon, as Israel’s assault forces injured, sick and hungry people to leave Gaza City
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15d
Death by aid cuts: how a decision in the US led to the loss of a mother in Yemen
Death by aid cuts: how a decision in the US led to the loss of a mother in Yemen
While the Trump administration claims no one will die over the axing of its overseas development budgets, aid agencies say the action will cost at least 3 million lives. Fatima and her baby were among the first
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 15d
An HIV outbreak in Maine points to a series of poor policy decisions, including ending needle-exchange programs and clearing a homeless encampment. As those policies go national, there is a risk the disease will spread, too: kffhealthnews.org/news/article... @brian-goldstone.bsky.social
An HIV Outbreak in Maine Shows the Risk of Trump’s Crackdown on Homelessness and Drug Use - KFF Health News
Public health experts and advocates say the outbreak has been fueled by a confluence of local factors, including the sweeping of a homeless encampment and shuttering of a sterile-syringe program. But ...
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 20d
Malawi responded quickly after Trump froze HIV programs, ensuring essential services were still up and running. Then officials turned to rethinking their relationship with donors to make sure they would never be put in that position again: theforsaken.substack.com/p/not-going-...
Not going back
The Trump administration's aid cuts have Malawi rethinking its relationship with donors
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 19d
It's astonishing that in its new global health strategy, the U.S. would take credit for helping to end the Ebola outbreak in Uganda. In fact, the U.S. global health funding pause completely disrupted and delayed that response, as I reported at the time: www.devex.com/news/us-dela...
US delayed assistance to Uganda’s Ebola response
Ugandan officials appear to have largely contained an outbreak of Ebola virus but did so without the same level of support they have previously received from the U.S. government.
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Shannon Bond @shannonbond.bsky.social · 20d
we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased.

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Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 20d
I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi.

This is *not* normal.

I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.
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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 20d
I find this extremely chilling:
I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 19d
It's astonishing that in its new global health strategy, the U.S. would take credit for helping to end the Ebola outbreak in Uganda. In fact, the U.S. global health funding pause completely disrupted and delayed that response, as I reported at the time: www.devex.com/news/us-dela...
US delayed assistance to Uganda’s Ebola response
Ugandan officials appear to have largely contained an outbreak of Ebola virus but did so without the same level of support they have previously received from the U.S. government.
www.devex.com
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 19d
And @emilybass.bsky.social has an important initial analysis of the strategy, including its overblown focus on inefficiencies within the global HIV response: emilysbass.substack.com/p/the-new-us...
The New US Global Health Strategy Gets Personal
Hit us baby one more time.
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 19d
A long-awaited U.S. global health strategy has finally been released, with a focus on bilateral engagement and transitioning funding responsibilities to the recipient countries: www.devex.com/news/trump-a... via @sarajerving.bsky.social
Trump administration releases long-awaited global health strategy
It emphasizes direct relationships and coinvestments with aid-receiving countries, boosting front-line health supplies and workers, protecting Americans from outbreaks originating abroad, and promotin...
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 19d
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