Evidence-informed dissent & creative resistance in health & human rights, among other things, in my personal capacity. https://xitter.cf/t.co/fA7abahje9
a Canadian in NYC
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The Board makes this decision. Right?
Consistent message from @UNAIDS EXD @Winnie_Byanyima that @UNAIDS is transitioning; not closing. This is ahead of the #PCBSpecial Session today.
Also from @UNMalawi RC @beckyadda that @UNMalawi will not let Malawi go 20 years back to people with HIV dying in thousands/week.
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'The Disappearers' did not disappoint. It was a wild ride.
Read it.
"This Masterpiece Is the Novel of the Decade, if Not the Century" ~ @NYTimes
I've started reading Marlon James' 'The Disappearers'.
It is brilliant. I'm in for a wild ride.
nytimes.com/2026/08/30/books…
ALT james at the brooklyn book festival on sunday
ALT book cover
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I predict that @NewPlazaCinema will sell out most of its screenings of NAZA on weekends until the new year.
Where else can Upper West Siders hear genocidaires themselves talk about the conduct of the Israel genocide in Palestine?
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A working group that writes "What was a good idea in 1994 remains timely & relevant in 2026." doesn't understand the changes in the HIV pandemic & the response to it in the last thirty years.
How many of the group members remember the situation in 1994?
unaids.org/sites/default/fil…
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"think we should be very cautious about lending any credence to the opinions of any commentators who think that not enough children were killed in Gaza, or that the current [@WHO DG] was too concerned about Gaza."
She must be referring to @peterasinger.
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Thank you for re-upping this story from a year ago.
11/5: A Rikers Island detainee who died in Feb had 121 pills and multiple synthetic drugs in his cell, according to a new city oversight report that highlights ongoing failures by jail officials to secure housing areas and respond to medical emergencies. thecity.nyc/2025/11/05/riker…
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Imagine the respectful silence leading to peace ... if the buskers at Strawberry Fields @CentralParkNYC put down their instruments for a few hours every day.
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Good piece @sciencecohen. Brewers in six?
science.org/content/article/…
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Kratom is an opioid.
ovid.com/jnls/psychopharmaco…
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Why would we trust NYC civil servants to respect speed limits to save lives?
Exclusive: The Mamdani administration says it will dramatically expand an effort by his predecessor to install speed governors inside city-owned vehicles, rising from 1,000 today to 3,000, preventing drivers from exceeding the speed limit. buff.ly/kBp8XG2
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Time well spent to see and hear a video of Joe Amon speak about health and human rights.
Sad to hear there has been so little progress in reducing detention of people who use drugs in Southeast Asia including Vietnam.
hrw.org/report/2011/09/07/re…
youtube.com/watch?v=nikIiKXx…
ALT detention centers in vietnam https://www.hrw.org/report/2011/09/07/rehab-archipelago/forced-labor-and-other-abuses-drug-detention-centers-southern
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I saw the film तिनीहरु 'Them' @NewFestNYC last night among hundreds of Nepali New Yorkers.
The best Nepali film I have ever seen.
ALT the screen
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The @statnews article is paywalled.
This one isn't:
"Understanding the Recent Rise and Decline of Overdose Deaths in the United States"
americanhealth.jhu.edu/sites…
ALT cover of the paper
"The public health gains of the past three years are not guaranteed to last, and there are still far too many overdose deaths. If we cannot explain why deaths are falling now, we won’t know what is driving them up if they rise again."
statnews.com/2026/10/23/opio…
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I see problems of retention in HIV care in NYC every day.
How much of the loss of direction is due to hype about LenPrEP?
@unaids @pepfar
This was one of the most frank and informative webinar I’ve ever moderated.
Speakers brought clear, candid realities to the persistent gaps in the HIV cascade. The data on when we lost direction and focus on testing, treatment, and viral suppression (2019) was sobering.
There were urgent calls for institutionalised engagement between people living with HIV and parliamentarians, and for renewed advocacy that treats RETENTION in care as the vital link between diagnosis, treatment, and sustained viral suppression for all PLHIV.
We must be outraged that 570,000 people living with HIV died in 2025.
Be deeply concerned that 9 million still have not accessed treatment and that children remain part of this population. And curious to know why 10.6 million people living with HIV are not virally suppressed despite biomedical progress.
People living with HIV must demand that leaders in the HIV response return focus of HIV to the cascade gap, strengthen retention, and move closer to epidemic control and the lives we can still save. OUR LIVES.
Progress in the HIV response should be recognised. But it cannot come at the expense of the gaps and barriers that the data continues to show year after year.
Leaders in the HIV response must end AIDS-related deaths. Huge thanks to all the speakers and participants and to @AHFcares for the collaboration #PLHIVLeadersNow @SboNkosiZA @cedricnini
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"At Rikers, Novick [@LynnNovick] couldn’t show the inmates all eight hours of her new film".
Why not?
Don't accept @CorrectionNYC reasons to restrict detainees right to information.
Will the entire @PBS series be available on detainees' tablets come November?
Many ‘said they felt empowered both by the event … and by the fact that Richards himself had once been imprisoned. “Things have really got better.”’
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/movie… via @NYTimes
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How many sterile needles and syringes have been distributed for HIV prevention in the weeks since programmes have been legal in Fiji?
None, you say?
islandsbusiness.com/news-bre…
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It's been three years since this excellent piece on NYC jails on Rikers was published in the New Yorker ...
newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
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Paywalled.
