A Conversation with WHO’s Dr. Allotey https://www.byteseu.com/898819/ #Bleeding #Blood #Childbirth #diabetes #epidemiology #FemaleGenitalMutilation #GestationalDiabetes #GlobalHealth #Health #HealthSystems #Healthcare #HIV #InfectiousDiseases #MaternalHealth #MentalHealth #Mortality #Newborn #poverty #pregnancy #PublicHealth #ReproductiveHealth #Research
Study shows impact of foreign aid sanctions on maternal and child health https://www.byteseu.com/853759/ #ChildHealth #Children #GlobalHealth #Health #Medicine #Mortality #Pediatrics #Research
We are going to regret this': Doctor issues stark warning about Musk's cuts
Dr. Craig Spencer, a Brown University School of Public Health professor, discusses the greater implications of Elon Musk's #DOGE cuts in the health sector
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osJ5uo_GRQI #usa #elonmusk #uspol #news #publichealth #globalhealth
But the result has been that, in little more than a month, America has transformed itself from a preeminent #GlobalHealth leader into an untrustworthy has-been. Undermining even one of these institutions would have posed a serious threat; gutting them all at once is an invitation for future outbreaks.
…#DOGE’s slash-&-burn campaign has hit everything from the #NIH to the National #Weather Service. The cuts to #GlobalHealth, however, are especially alarming. It’s unclear what #Musk thought would happen when he fed the #USAID “into the wood chipper,” as he proclaimed w/gleeful indifference on X, the social-media megaphone he owns. Ditto what #Trump thought when he withdrew the #US from the #WHO & effectively muzzled the #CDC.
The Diseases Are Coming
#ElonMusk’s slash-&-burn govt tear will have lasting effects on #GlobalHealth.
At #Trump’s 1st Cabinet meeting, last month, #Musk …admitted that #DOGE had “accidentally canceled very briefly” #Ebola-prevention programs. After a…chuckle, he claimed that the oversight had been swiftly corrected. But it wasn’t. The truth is far more disturbing—this admin…has actively dismantled the infrastructure…to detect & confront deadly pathogens.
A snr #USAID official was placed on leave Sunday after he wrote a memo blowing the whistle on the #Trump admin’s failure to provide lifesaving #humanitarian assistance, contradicting claims by Secy of #State #MarcoRubio that it was exempt from the freeze on #ForeignAid.
Shortly after receiving notice that he’d been placed on leave, Nicholas Enrich, USAID’s acting asst administrator for #GlobalHealth, released a series of memos he’d written.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/usaid-whistleblower-boldly-drops-truth-bomb-on-trump
The executive director of the Global Health Impact project explains why #publichealth scholars believe closing down #USAID and leaving the #WHO will imperil national security and put millions of lives at risk. By Nicole Hassoun @binghamtonu.bsky.social #globalhealth #WHO https://buff.ly/41Aqput
US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’ https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/28/usaid-funding-health-development-hiv-aids-antiretroviral-mothers-lgbt-sex-workers-south-africa #Trumpadministration #Infectiousdiseases #Globaldevelopment #USforeignpolicy #Maternalhealth #Globalhealth #LGBTQ+rights #SouthAfrica #AidsandHIV #USpolitics #Worldnews #Eswatini #Society #Sexwork #Science #Lesotho #Africa #USnews #Health #USAid #Women #Aid
#USAID supported #humanitarian & development projects in >120 countries & worked to prevent the spread of #disease & eliminate #poverty.
The #State Department said the eliminations followed a review of foreign assistance designed "to ensure taxpayer dollars were used to make America stronger, safer, & more prosperous."
#Aid groups & advocates have been raising alarms that cuts to #USAID's programs would lead to loss of life, particularly in #humanitarian crisis zones such as #Sudan, where >1k food aid kitchens supported by USAID have closed amid widespread #starvation.
In the filing, Marocco wrote that 500 of USAID's grants were retained, but did not go into detail about which programs will be allowed to continue.
Elisha Dunn-Georgiou, president & CEO of the #GlobalHealth Council, said the situation is "horrible." She said that even some of the programs that had received waivers for being "life saving humanitarian assistance”–including ones that provided #HIV medications–have now received termination notices.
"This is a global health #massacre," said one #humanitarian ofcl, who isn't authorized to speak on behalf of their org.
Contractors were notified of the termination in a memo sent from #USAID's office of Acquisition & Assistance, according to one such letter obtained by NPR. The memo stated that Secy #MarcoRubio & #PeteMarocco "have determined your award is not aligned with Agency priorities & made a determination that continuing this program is not in the national interest."
In his statement to the lower court, #PeteMarocco, who is performing the duties of the dpty administrator of #USAID, said each of USAID's grants had been reviewed & Secy of #State #MarcoRubio decided to eliminate about 92% worth of the agency's grants. The State dept also cut around 4,100 grants. The [#Trump admin is claiming]…a total savings of nearly $60B dollars.
The announcement came just hours before [what was]… a court deadline for the #Trump admin to restart payments on those grants. The govt still owes >$1B for work done BEFORE Trump's foreign #aid freeze. But late Wed the admin asked #SCOTUS to vacate the lower court order to start funding those programs again, saying that it could not make the payments on the deadline set by the judge.
#Trump admin kills nearly all #USAID programs
The Trump admin is terminating thousands of USAID foreign assistance grants & awards, per the #State Dept. The move effectively guts the six-decade-old agency.
#law #aid #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #geopolitics #ForeignPolicy #diplomacy #SoftPower #USpol #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5310673/usaid-trump-administration-global-health
God Bless America and the world.
On top of existing outbreaks, America is going to get more sick and nasty, and by default, the rest of the world too. There will be preventable deaths & disease outbreaks.
Unbelievable that the Senator has just confirmed vaccine sceptic and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr as Trump's health secretary
Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/health/west-texas-measles-outbreak
Memorandum of Understanding between the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit @GIZ and Robert Koch Institute for another two years!
This partnership enables us to further expand our collaboration in infectious disease monitoring, health system resilience, and emergency preparedness and response. #PublicHealth
By working together, we aim to develop effective solutions for #globalhealth challenges and strengthen international networks.
This is a disastrous decision especially in the wake of the USAID situation.
GAVI is an incredible initiative for global public health with great positive results. What a travesty.
What a horrible year so far (and we're only in Month 2) for global development.
Elon Musk has purchased $40M on a series of Superbowl ads attacking USAID as "wasteful spending." Colleagues have created this video and are asking that it be posted across social media at exactly 5:30 pm EST today, Sunday, February 9th https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUESHfuO_8
