The Kigali Call to Action: Standing Together for the Global HIV Response The Kigali Call to Action is a global rallying cry to protect hard-won progress in the fight against HIV. Launched during IAS 2025, it highlights urgent threats—funding cuts, political setbacks, and r...

If you work in or care about global HIV and public health— including science—please consider signing onto the Kigali Call to Action.
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📣 This #ZeroDiscriminationDay, let's stand up for diversity, equity & inclusion (#DEI)!

Recent attacks on DEI undermine the #HIV response.

🌐 Access free DEI resources on #IASPlus & join us in building a more diverse, equitable & inclusive HIV response:
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Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

40 years of progress in controlling the HIV epidemic are about to be completely shattered if nothing is done. Keep speaking out and keep education on what is unfolding.

excludes gender-based violence programs; excludes orphans & vulnerable children programs; excludes medical male circumcision; excludes DREAMS (px for young women) >>

for now it appears PEPFAR's guidance excludes prevention except for #HIV testing & perinatal prevention; excludes #PrEP except for pregnant & breastfeeding people;

We published the leaked guidance for @PEPFAR on the waiver to the funding freeze for "life-saving humanitarian assistance programs" here: docs.google.com/document/d/e... >> a thread 🧵:

Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day Employees at multiple federal agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by Friday afternoon, according to internal memos obtained by ABC News.

move over, lowering egg prices

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky
CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇
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CDC website: The page you’re looking for was not found. This was after clicking a search result link for Fast Facts: HIV and transgender people.

The CDC (US Center for Disease Control) has removed whole pages about HIV testing, treatment and prevention for trans people from its site.
If there are still resources you need on US Government sites that relate to LGBTQ or reproductive health - download them now!

threads post from @ghostoflviv_: The Pentagon has reportedly ordered Politico, the New York Times and NBC News to vacate their office space in the building and will instead be inviting the New York Post, OANN, Breitbart and Huffington Post.

Confirmed by Haley Britzky, Pentagon reporter for CNN The Pentagon has informed its resident press corps that NBC, NYT, NPR, and Politico will "rotate out of the building" to give space to New York Post, Breitbart, OANN, and HuffPost. NBC, who has an entire booth w/ cameras etc.

letter from the assistant secretary of defense: MEMO FOR THE PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION SUBJECT: New Annual Media Rotation Program for Pentagon Press Corps For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department's top military and civilian leaders. Known as the Correspondents* Corridor, this office space loaned to media outlets by the Secretary of Defense stands as a tribute to the importance the Department has long placed on informing the public about the U.S. military and all it does to project peace through strength. It also honors the many correspondents who put their lives on the line, and in many cases died, while covering our finest in battle. In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents Corridor to outlets that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and joumalistic value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs will implement a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces. Each year, one outlet from each press medium - print, online, television and radio - that has enjoyed working from a physical office in the Pentagon will rotate out of the building to allow a new outlet from the same medium that has not had the unique opportunity to report as a resident member of the Pentagon Press Corps. This year, the following news outlets will begin their rotation by vacating their physical office space effective Friday, February 14, 2025: Print - The New York Times TV - NBC News Radio - National Public Radio Online News - POLITICO In their place, the following outlets from each medium will be invited to move into the Correspondents Corridor workspaces formerly occupied by the above four outlets. Print - New York Post TV - One America News Network Radio - Breitbart News Network Online News - HufiPost News …

page 2 To be clear, the outlets that vacate the spaces loaned to them by the Secretary will remain as full members of the Pentagon Press Corps. They will continue to enjoy the same media access to the Pentagon and will be able to attend and cover briefings and be considered for travel with civilian and military leaders in the Department as they have previously. The only change will be giving up their physical workspaces in the building to allow new outlets to have their tum to become resident members of the Pentagon Press Corps. Thank you in advance for participating in the Pentagon Press Corps Annual Media Rotation Program. By turing over the office space loaned to you by the Secretary, you will ensure that new outlets will have the same opportunity you have enjoyed covering our nation s finest up close from office spaces inside the walls of the Pentagon. ku- John Ullyot Acting

how many times did we say “sucking up won’t save you”

Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 Retailer Costco Wholesale will increase pay for most of its hourly U.S. store workers to more than $30, according to a memo sent to employees this week.

Costco - the only company to publicly come out in support of Diversity initiatives despite pressure from the GOP and they just raised the pay for their workers. Stop shopping at Target.

Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 www.reuters.com/business/ret...

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The LA Times is editing out negative parts of an article about RFK Jr. that say he's unfit for Secretary of Health and Human Services.

If you haven't canceled your subscription already, you should.

[LISTEN] Weaponising aid: The cruel ways of #Trump2025 - Bhekisisa Several HIV treatment clinics in Cape Town, Johannesburg and the Eastern Cape, funded by the US government, temporarily closed down this week after receiving stop-work orders from the new Trump admini...

The new US president has moved with unprecedented speed. Within a few days hundreds of executive orders were issued, including stop-work orders for #HIV organisations. How does it feel? @bhekisisahealth.bsky.social @miamalan.bsky.social spoke to our Mitchell Warren bhekisisa.org/multimedia/p...

Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment.

🏆 Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment.

Appalling. This is not who we are. Speak up, you'll wish you did one day. Raise awareness, many in your circle are not watching every wild, awful EO, help them understand.

This Black History Month, as our communities battle attempts to whitewash history, use us as scapegoats, and undo our civil rights, we must show up louder than ever before.

Let us celebrate the Black LGBTQ+ leaders who came before us and let their legacy guide us.

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As D.E.I. Programs Come Under Attack, Companies Like Costco and Microsoft Forge Ahead As racial and gender equity programs come under attack, many companies have scaled back. But Costco, Microsoft and others have forged ahead.

Bravo @microsoft.com , Apple, Pinterest, ETSY, Costco, JP Morgan Chase - standing by your values requires courage. Diverse teams produce better results, the impact speaks for itself. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/b...
#DEI #politicalcourage #retaintalent