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Three African countries launch lenacapavir

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South Africa, Eswatini and Zambia began administering lenacapavir injections for HIV prevention on World AIDS Day, a twice‑yearly regimen hailed as a major advance.

Reposted by Pedro Gullón

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El #diamundialdelsida solo quiero decir que algún día acabaremos con el estigma y va a ser más pronto que tarde. Y gracias a los mismos que podemos decir que es una enfermedad tratable: las personas que viven con VIH y ponen el cuerpo cada día
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Great @planetmoney.bsky.social episode on how GiveWell is allocating funds in response to the closure of USAID. I might add this to my development economics syllabus for next semester.
In the wake of USAID cuts, global aid programs had to drastically reduce their work. Private philanthropic groups tried to jump in. On today’s show, we get to listen in on one group’s decision-making: Givewell figures out if it can fund a program in Cameroon.
Saving lives with fewer dollars : Planet Money
Givewell is a nonprofit organization that gives money to “save or improve the most lives per dollar.” Part of their whole thing is a rigorous research process with copious and specific datapoints.…
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December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Working with community groups over the past 3 year to document, understand, and learn from the Canadian response to the contemporary mpox outbreak has helped me recognize that so many outside affected communities are unaware of the impact of HIV on our world.
December 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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We saw political activism and medical breakthroughs turn infection from a death sentence to a chronic disease. We've seen the same medical advances applied to other viruses with no recognition of their origins. We saw HIV-related mortality turn from a scientific problem to a social/political one.
December 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Dec 1 will always be World AIDS Day to me.

I am of the US/CAN microgeneration that grew up alongside the unfolding pandemic. We came of age with "safe sex is hot sex".

www.catie.ca/world-aids-day
World AIDS Day 2025
www.catie.ca
December 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM

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The Trump administration will not commemorate World AIDS Day this year.

2025 will be the first year since 1988 that the U.S. has not formally recognized this day.
December 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM

Reposted by Pedro Gullón

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1 de diciembre, día mundial de la lucha contra el SIDA
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM

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It’s important to acknowledge that Donald Trump is slashing funding for HIV prevention and global health programs, undermining public health agencies, and treating vulnerable communities as political collateral. That is not leadership. It’s cruelty dressed up as policy.
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM

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Today is World AIDS Day, a day that reminds me of the decades-long fight for dignity, science, and compassion. We’ve come so far because activists, researchers, and communities refused to be ignored.
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Cuts to PEPFAR and attacks on public health are creating a resurgence of deaths, sickness, and loss.   

www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Trump-era global funding cuts devastate HIV prevention programmes, UNAIDS says
An uncounted number of extra people have died from AIDS and 2.5 million have lost access to medicine to block the spread of HIV, because of cuts to global programmes since Donald Trump returned to the...
www.reuters.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Today is World AIDS Day. Activism was key to how the public came to know about AIDS and why $ and resources were dedicated to addressing the epidemic. My book documents some of the activists who brought about changes to science, medicine, and law.  www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
  #WorldAIDSDay
Risk and Resistance
Cambridge Core - Socio-Legal Studies - Risk and Resistance
www.cambridge.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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"It's a wake-up call."

With new HIV cases rising by 3091% since 2010, Fiji is introducing same-day testing and treatment, peer education and support, and harm reduction. Jacqui Thornton reports: spkl.io/63322A5ohp #WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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