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What directing the CDC taught me about compassion | Rochelle Walensky | TEDxBerlin
TEDx Talks· 2025-08-10 17:00
How many times can you call the bomb squad to your house for a suspicious package before you get charged for a misuse of emergency services. Turns out the answer is three. That is one of the many things I learned when I was sworn in as the 19th director of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.It was a job I never aspired to or even applied. See, we were in the middle of a historic pandemic. Nearly 4,000 people were dying every single day.And as we say in infectious disease circles, a ...
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Bloomberg· 2025-08-04 17:15
South Africa, the Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust will plow money into HIV and other medical research after the US scrapped funding https://t.co/UQeH52bgww ...
Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘Like a Love Story’ by Abdi Nazemian
MSNBC· 2025-08-02 20:48
[Music] The year is 1989. New York City has been hit hard, harder than any other American city by the AIDS epidemic. Quote, "I'm surrounded by people who are dying in a city that feels completely segregated. This community center is overflowing with people of all races, ages, genders, and income levels. bankers and dancers all in one place with one purpose.To fight the power to screw the system and to show the presidents and CEOs of the world what we're made of. There's nowhere else in the city with this mu ...
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The Economist· 2025-07-27 05:00
Before Donald Trump’s funding cuts, the fight against AIDS was going reasonably well. Now, there could be up to 6m new HIV infections and 4m deaths by 2029, according to UNAIDS. But new ideas and technology may offer a way forward https://t.co/7qpty0fayHPhoto: Gulshan Khan/New York Times/Redux/Eyevine ...
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Bloomberg· 2025-07-08 10:04
Big debate in China: Do doctors have an obligation to tell a prospective spouse whether their partner is HIV positive, which violates the nation’s privacy laws? https://t.co/kJVYxtzm6c ...
Tragic shutdown of USAID could be catastrophic
MSNBC· 2025-07-05 16:14
US Aid Impact & Challenges - US aid prevented 92 million deaths in 133 countries over 20 years (2001-2021), including 25 million from HIV/AIDS, 11 million from diarrheal diseases, 8 million from malaria, and 5 million from tuberculosis [2] - Gutting American aid is projected to cost millions of lives, impacting access to life-saving medicines and emergency food [3][4] - A historic drought in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia (2020-2023) put 40 million people on the path to humanitarian aid, with US taxpayers providing 70% of the necessary aid [9][10] - In 2022, US aid for the drought cost approximately $2 billion, or $6 per average American household [11] - Independent experts estimate that American aid prevented between 21% and 39% million deaths during the drought, half of whom would have been children under 5 [12] Waste & Inefficiency Concerns - Millions of vaccine doses donated to Sierra Leone were wasted due to the cancellation of a distribution program [5] - The current administration is contributing to waste despite claiming to target waste, fraud, and abuse [5] Communication & Perception - US Aid failed to effectively communicate the impact of American aid to the public, creating space for criticism and potential budget cuts [7] - The withdrawal of US aid raises concerns about who will fill the vacuum and the impact on the world's poorest populations [8][9]
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U.S. funding for anti-HIV initiatives in the Congo has been cut. Humanitarian officials fear infections will surge. https://t.co/XqKxQB8pn3 ...
I hate drag (just kidding) | Felony Misdemeanor | TEDxCU
TEDx Talks· 2025-06-30 17:01
[Applause] Growing up in El Paso, Texas in the 90s, I was young, gay, and naive. Coming out was difficult because of the times, and I did not know any open gays until I went away to college. It was there at uh Baton Rouge, Louisiana when I first came out.Even though a homophobia was not uncommon in the South, going to school at Southern University was great, minus a few jerks in class who made higher learning a bit like high school. Well, anyway, I had two friends, Farad and Daniel, and they were the gay do ...