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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

This shot might protect against #HIV
Promising results from an early-stage trial suggest #lenacapavir #injections might offer long-lasting protection.
When it came to innovations in biotech, this year there was a clear winner: lenacapavir, was found to prevent HIV infections in 100% of the women and girls who received it in #clinicaltrial. The drug was safe, too (it’s already approved to treat HIV). And it only needed to be injected twice a year to offer full protection.
technologyreview.com/2025/03/1

MIT Technology Review · This annual shot might protect against HIV infectionsBy Jessica Hamzelou
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 25, 1993: Over one million people marched in Washington, D.C., for gay, lesbian, bisexual, & transgender rights. This was in the era of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell discrimination within the military and Colorado’s constitutional amendment invalidating laws that protect LGBTQ rights. The marchers had seven basic demands. The 1st demand was a civil rights bill and ending all discrimination by state and federal governments, including the repeal of all sodomy laws. They also demanded more funding for AIDS research and treatment; an end to discrimination in adoption and child custody; full inclusion of all LGBTQ people in the education system; and an end to all discrimination and violence against LGBTQ people. However, in their platform, they also demanded these same rights and protections for ALL people, especially people of color, people with disabilities, women, nonbinary and trans people, and working class and poor people.

Demonstrators at the 1993 LGBTQ march on Washington, with an "African American Unity" banner. By Elvert Barnes - 54.LGBT.MOW.25April1993, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58385022
#workingclass#LaborHistory#lgbtq
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is defending the Affordable Care Act before the Supreme Court...But a win for the federal government in the current case, concerning the law’s mandates that certain preventive services are covered cost-free, could boost the power that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has in shaping those requirements."

cnn.com/2025/04/20/politics/ob

CNN · Trump is defending Obamacare at the Supreme Court. A win could boost RFK Jr.’s influenceBy Tierney Sneed
#healthcare#insurance#ACA
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Maggie Maybe

RIP #CDC

“Fleming noted that he was particularly concerned that #HIV prevention efforts had been “substantially cut,” that the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (#NIOSH ) is ‘essentially gone,’ and that staff members who worked on cancer clustershad been fired.”
“The April 2 letter also listed asthma, tobacco use, violence prevention, lead poisoning, reproductive health, global health threats, birth defects, and #disability and injury prevention as CDC programs affected by the firings.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/

#JAMA
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MikeDunnAuthor

Many have called Trump the worst president ever. However, under his 1st presidency, he did not come close to causing the amount of death that occurred under the leadership of Bush Jr., whose War on Terror brought him into the top 20 of most murderous regimes in the history of earth.

But Trump 2.0 is set to be far more deadly. His cuts to HIV program funding in Africa, alone, is predicted to result in over 500,000 deaths of children, along with 2.8 million orphaned when their parents die of AIDS.

cidrap.umn.edu/hivaids/us-cuts

CIDRAPUS cuts to HIV programs in Africa threaten to set progress back to 'dark ages,' experts say
#HIV#aids#publichealth
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Who Will Care for #Infants With #HIV Overseas?
The consequences of# mother-to-child transmission can be enormous, a new study suggests. But the US has dismissed experts working to solve the problem. The Trump administration has dismissed the few remaining #health officials who oversaw care for some of the world’s most vulnerable people: more than 500,000 #children and more than 600,000 #pregnant women with H.I.V. in low-income countries.
nytimes.com/2025/04/08/health/
archive.ph/H0agt

The New York Times · All Federal Experts on H.I.V. Prevention in Children Overseas Were DismissedBy Apoorva Mandavilli
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