Carole Mitnick

“History isn’t written by those who yield to scarcity, but by those who act despite it.” Community health workers save lives around the world for $0.59/person/year. How can we say we can’t afford this? time.com/7336627/comm...

For those who care about TB—and humanity—this is a terrific and well-referenced article about the death and destruction sown by the current U.S. administration. www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis... thank you @cidrap, for this comprehensive reporting. @tbfighters.org @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

#PMC2025 will officially begin shortly. Chris started his ride for #ekiponkoloji & @pih.org cancer services ~1 hour ago. He is carrying names of our (& our supporters’) friends & family affected by cancer on his back & in his ❤️. U can still donate at profile.pmc.org/CJ0049. 🙏 for ur support!

My hubby, Chris Johnson is among the Brookline riders in #PMC2025 featured in this @brooklinenews.bsky.social piece (brookline.news/dozens-of-br...). He is riding again for @pih.org Ekip Onkoloji team. Read more about Chris’s motivation & donate at: profile.pmc.org/CJ0049

Thx to @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social and Ed. Ari Colosio for the rapid publication of endTB-Q & podcast. Resistant forms of TB are only more likely w/US abdication of its role in global health. Trial results remind us of the dangers of one-size-fits-all approaches in TB & all infectious diseases.

Great op-ed @usatoday.com from longtime TB Fighter Quinn Yates: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

If senators do NOT know “what they are actually rescinding”, they fail their constituents by voting for rescissions. Pls use these simple tools to quickly let your senators know you oppose the rescissions &/or oppose voting without full information. win.newmode.net/callaboutres...

@harvardmed.bsky.social thank you for documenting this travesty.

The House passed a bill that would gut global health funding and the Senate is next. Programs like PEPFAR, TB care, and UNICEF are all on the line. 🗣️ Call your Senator today and tell them: Vote NO on the $9.4B rescissions package. Take action: act.pih.org/global-healt...

What do foreign aid cuts mean for TB care? The U.S. has led the fight against TB for decades. Cutting aid now risks millions of lives. TB is curable. The crisis is political. Dr. @cdmitpih.bsky.social and Dr. Jen Furin break it down in this video. Watch and help fill the gap: pih.org/fill-the-gap

Would you spend $20 to save a human life? What about $20 to save thousands of lives? What if I told you that if you pay US taxes, you already *have* paid this $20, but Trump doesn’t want it to be spent saving lives? That’s exactly what’s happening with these rescissions: youtu.be/oJW2iES4oPw?...

47’s “style of politics…depends on inconsistency, radical unwillingness to be bound by his own or others’ past actions, and verbal incoherence as a kind of gonzo performance art.”👏

Science is not partisan. The research funded by USG in Montana & around the world, helps Americans directly and indirectly through innovation and economic benefits.

In addition to destroying the withering social safety net in the US, the Bill passed by the House: 1) impedes the judicial branch’s ability to hold govt actors in contempt when they defy judicial order; 2) halts state protections against AI-generated election lies.

“Absurd to insinuate”, indeed. Direct statements about the extreme level of corruption & cruelty are much more apt. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

AIDS activists protested today at Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s appearing at the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The protesters, including TAG’s Kendall Martinez-Wright, demanded full reinstatement of PEPFAR’S programs and funding for FY26. Details: healthgap.org/press/aids-a...

From GPS to GLP agonist drugs, US Federal science funding has provided so many remarkable innovations! Everything is now under jeopardy! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

Thanks to @treatmentactiongroup.org & @msfaccess.org for speaking up about 1) the fact that research funding is NOT aid; & 2)the damage to human health resulting from eliminating research support to S. Africa.

This is nuts. More manipulation & destruction of human health advances—especially in infectious diseases. Who ever heard of “expiring” opportunities because they hadn’t previously expired?

This is a spectacular tribute to people who care about others, simply because they are human and intentionally because they are the most marginalized, isolated. We have a lot to learn from @pih.org and socios en salud. 🥰

“I’m not knocking the drug companies,” Mr. Trump said on Monday before signing the order. “I’m really more knocking the countries than the drug companies.” These are the countries that have managed to secure lower prices for their drugs…

It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid. While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️ x.com/i/broadcasts...

📣👋🏼May-19⏰12:30pm US ET #HIV Research in Progress w/Dr Hejazi @HarvardBiostatsℹ️ mailchi.mp/fa44136af7e2... ✔️ @hsph.harvard.edu @ragoninstitute.bsky.social @cdmitpih.bsky.social @bidmcreseach.bsky.social @tuftsmedschool.bsky.social @harvardgh.bsky.social @harvardepi.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social

Very proud of endTB co-PI, Lorenzo Guglielmetti, for being honored by @timemagazine.bsky.social #Time100 Health for his catalytic work on new, safe, short regimens for MDR-TB. Results published in @nejm.org #TBSky

With resources, will, innovation, solidarity, & compassion, we can solve many major health problems. It will be harder w/USG abdication. That fight is not over yet! Thx to Gates for doubling down. #TBSky

Very proud of endTB co-PI, Lorenzo Guglielmetti, for being honored by @timemagazine.bsky.social #Time100 Health for his catalytic work on new, safe, short regimens for MDR-TB. Results published in @nejm.org #TBSky

This is a spectacular tribute to people who care about others, simply because they are human and intentionally because they are the most marginalized, isolated. We have a lot to learn from @pih.org and socios en salud. 🥰

« Americans spend roughly seven times more on pet food annually than is spent globally on TB. » 200+ generous ppl used their hard-earned resources to tell their Members of Congress that we can do much better, w/a modest additional, per-capita investment! I’m so grateful. #TBSky @tbfighters.org

Seems like a great opportunity to communicate to parents and students that Trump is cutting higher education and scientific research in Alabama aldailynews.com/nih-funding-...

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

Yesterday KS, today FL. Where next? Without a robust system for care & research in US & abroad, we can be sure that TB will turn up everywhere. #TBSky

Informative & chilling explanation of strategy to destroy NIH. #HandsoffNIH pls let ur members of congress know that it’s not ok to stop cancer research, write to local newspapers. Expose these lethal plans.

Important contribution to the landscape for R&D. Can bring important transparency for pricing products resulting from private-public collaborations & useful for donors.

Of course we need to be clever how to spend the limited resources, but never lost the perspective: patients are persons with dreams and should be the center of care! We have the tools, and we know what we need to address as a society (social determinants), so we should be the cure! #EndTB (4/4)

This is a suicide acceleration strategy. They want people to die; there is no other explanation.

Hi Kate-- I'm really sorry to hear this. If NIH terminations are any guide, we expect NSF terminations to be chaotic, so we're trying to track them and organize the information. If don't mind, please have your team enter their grants here: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... And please spread the word.

More generally, a novel pandemic virus will always possess a characteristic not currently found in nature… because it’s a novel pandemic virus.

Great resource to reveal impact of senseless, murderous cuts. We need to figure out how to communicate same to non-specialist audiences.

>> The mountain of coffins for Rubio is growing, these are the effects of his hypocrisy and cowardice as Sec of State. The blood of people with #AIDS is on his hands.

If you are in Boston on May 1st, please drop by and engage in these global health conversations @bostonu.bsky.social & @harvardmed.bsky.social

If JD Vance gets his way & having more children in a jurisdiction means more Federal $, Austin will be flush. It’s curious that the expectation that children be born w/i confines of marriage between man & woman does NOT apply to this extorting seed-spreader. www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

Great to see @arabnews.com.web.brid.gy highlighting the work on finding and treating #TB in Iraq and how investments from The Global Fund have supported this work. www.arabnews.com/node/2597362...

Ditto!