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Published: May 27, 2025 19:33
“What we’re witnessing isn’t just the breakdown of systems, it’s the unraveling of the illusory foundations built on domination and extraction—revealing what was always unsustainable.”
—sahibzada sayed
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Published: May 24, 2025 20:59
The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) voted this past week "to eliminate diversity programs and partnerships as criteria when it grades the performance of medical schools that confer "MD" degrees to students."…
https://bsky.app/profile/oniblackstock.bsky.social/post/3lptmedf7u22v
Published: May 23, 2025 12:17
I spoke w/ @huffpost.com's @jilliangloria.bsky.social about the FDA's proposed restrictions on the COVID19 vax:
“Without FDA approval for these groups, insurance companies might not cover the cost, potentially leaving people to pay out of pocket or unable…
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Published: May 20, 2025 16:40
"China to give $500 million to WHO in next 5 years, official says"
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/china-give-500-million-who-next-5-years-official-says-2025-05-20/
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Published: May 20, 2025 12:54
It’s a beautiful fall day in NYC🍂🍂🍁🤣
https://bsky.app/profile/oniblackstock.bsky.social/post/3lpkrkoe2ys2q
Published: May 19, 2025 23:56
"Poor adults who gained Medicaid coverage after the Affordable Care Act expanded access were 21 percent less likely to die during a given year than those not enrolled..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/health/medicaid-cuts-congress.html
https://bsky.app/profile/oniblackstock.bsky.social/post/3lpkqoumn2s2q
Published: May 19, 2025 23:40
"In the best-case scenario, researchers will find ways of doing the same work by another name, but in the worst case, the work just won’t get done, and “we go back to only studying white men”, the [NIH program] officer says."…
https://bsky.app/profile/oniblackstock.bsky.social/post/3lpkjrzkhdc2z
Published: May 19, 2025 21:37
"Africa bears 25% of the global disease burden yet imports more than 95% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients & 70% of the medicines it consumes.
The continent has just 600 health product manufacturing sites for a population of 1.1 billion compared…
https://bsky.app/profile/oniblackstock.bsky.social/post/3lpk5slrw4k2x
Published: May 19, 2025 18:02
With current and impending NIH funding cuts, we need to lean on models that support research beyond institutions
and explore new approaches (crowdfunding, co-ops, and
reparations funds).
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01539-5
https://bsky.app/profile/oniblackstock.bsky.social/post/3lpjxg4sx3s2x
Published: May 19, 2025 16:08
American exceptionalism.
"United States Appears Set to Skip World Health Assembly while China Sends Over 180 Delegates to Geneva"
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Published: May 19, 2025 10:36
“On one hand, [Black students and faculty] applaud the school’s efforts in standing up against the Trump administration, but on the other they have to grapple with how Harvard’s new policies and decisions have disproportionately harmed them.”
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Published: May 13, 2025 16:19
Attend Positive Women's Network USA's event, “PWN #HIVResists Action Hour 🗣️Save Medicaid!📞🔊” - sign up now to join !
#JoinPWNUSA
https://www.mobilize.us/pwn-usa/event/787719/?force_banner=true&share_context=event_details&share_medium=bluesky
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Published: May 13, 2025 00:03
"With continued federal investment in HIV prevention, America can prevent 255,000 new transmissions over the next five years, saving taxpayers and businesses over $216 billion in lifetime healthcare treatment costs."
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Published: May 12, 2025 23:59
Your advocacy for people aging with HIV is more important than ever before.
Join SAGE for a two-part webinar series that will detail effective strategies to help you shape and share your story about HIV and aging.
Registration is open! See link here: …
https://bsky.app/profile/oniblackstock.bsky.social/post/3lotrryp47c2z
Published: May 10, 2025 20:29
Interesting (not really) that Trump has arrested a white woman judge, Black man mayor and is threatening to arrest two Black women and one Latino man who are electeds...What he's doing is so blatant, he should just say it with his whole chest.
https://bsky.app/profile/oniblackstock.bsky.social/post/3lorosk5rec2t
Published: May 10, 2025 00:30
Unsuprisingly, efforts to build fairness into AI have recently come under attack ("woke AI" they are calling it).
This...even after numerous examples of AI's disproprortionate harms on Black people and other people of color.
AI should work for…
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Published: May 8, 2025 22:43
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Published: May 8, 2025 16:36
Deep appreciation to #TanyaTaylor for spotlighting @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social and me in dresses from the label's new collection and for providing an opportunity for us to share about respective journeys. Thank you for celebrating women!
Read and see…
https://bsky.app/profile/oniblackstock.bsky.social/post/3lolqcmuk6s2p
Published: May 7, 2025 15:41
5 Bronx kids missing from their homes this week, police say - this deserves much more media attention. Please share.
https://gothamist.com/news/5-bronx-kids-missing-from-their-homes-this-week-police-say
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Published: May 6, 2025 12:05
“It’s reassuring to see that Hochul’s proposal to create a new crime of ‘masked harassment’ has been dropped,” said Dr. Oni Blackstock...
“[But][e]ven proposals like this can have a chilling effect. It risks casting doubt on masks as a legitimate and…
https://bsky.app/profile/oniblackstock.bsky.social/post/3locljwnjac2h
Published: May 4, 2025 00:22
""I was on a call yesterday where San Francisco AIDS Foundation said that, yes, federal cuts would hurt, but that they have a huge stock of private donors.
That's not the case for us; San Antonio is poor."
She says that a loss of federal funds would be…
https://bsky.app/profile/oniblackstock.bsky.social/post/3lo7j5wlthk2l
Published: May 2, 2025 19:01
Grateful to be part of communities that have dreamed, resisted, organized & loved in the face of impossible odds.
No matter who is in office, I will continue to do whatever is in my power to see an end to the HIV epidemic.
Deep appreciation to Houston &…
https://bsky.app/profile/oniblackstock.bsky.social/post/3lo3evlszis2d
Published: May 1, 2025 03:34
“Kennedy…has gutted at least seven minority health offices across the department…and laid off a significant share of workers at those offices, or in some cases all of them, along with their directors…”
Work to end health inequities must be embedded so…
https://bsky.app/profile/oniblackstock.bsky.social/post/3lnyl3fifok2f
Published: April 30, 2025 00:47
Some good news - the CDC released an HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report with data for 2023.
Unfortunately, there is no data presented on HIV incidence and PrEP coverage because...of RIF.
This diminishes our situational awareness re: where we are…
https://bsky.app/profile/oniblackstock.bsky.social/post/3lnpkmfho222a
Published: April 26, 2025 10:45
Revere one another, recognize our interconnectedness, realize we belong to one another. What one does has a direct effect on another. Thinking about ourselves as a collective will help us to protect against pandemics, moreso than reverence for scientists.
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