Marc Mendelson
@SouthAfricanASP
Prof. & Head of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital UCT. view are my own. retweets are not endorsements
Think of a child. Think of how precious their life is. The joy they bring to others. Now think of something that has saved 17 MILLION of them. All at low cost. That’s Gavi. And RFK Jr has pulled funding from it. Evil is the only word.
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Preventable deaths from #HIV in the Mbeki-Manto denialism era reached over 330,000 lnkd.in/ebM6TtKJ. How many will needlessly die due to tragic inaction in this current @HealthZA debacle? @SAHIVSoc @PresidencyZA @fidssa1 spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/07/16/fra…
After ACIP: Where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely go from here in his quest to eliminate vaccines sciencebasedmedicine.org/eliminating-va… via @sciencebasedmed
The oppression of 20 million people in Afghanistan simply because they are women is utterly unacceptable, @unwomenchief told the Security Council this week. “Afghan women have not given up,” she said, adding: “We must not look away. We must not grow used to their situation.”
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3. Well, we are excited to announce that this is the second AMR club we launched; the Budhwege Primary School AMR (WASH) Club.We aim to develop students as WASH Champions and ambassadors in their communities, raising awareness about AMR and WASH. @SouthAfricanASP @TrinityChall
First white South Africans to arrive under US refugee plan as soon as next week reuters.com/world/trump-of… What a topsy-turvy world of untruths we do live in.
There is a MAHA civil war brewing over Casey Means nomination as Surgeon General. Anti vaxxers facing off the Wellness Grifters. Risk of Quack on Quack violence.
Trump picks conspiracy theorist with no medical license to be Surgeon General independent.co.uk/news/world/ame… Business as usual on planet Bonkers 🤦♂️
Beautiful riding in the mother city in Autumn @CapeTown @PedalPowerPPA
Autumn is underway in our South Africa National Hub, based in Cape Town, and it's incredibly beautiful #AMR @SouthAfricanASP @UCT_SPH
Misinformation & lies lies & more lies. For shame @RobertKennedyJr 1. Vaccinees have less autoimmune disease 2. New drugs & vaccines are only approved by FDA 3. Vaccines undergo stringent pre-license trials 4. Adverse event surveillance is comprehensive nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/…
The Economics of Life-Saving Diagnostics by Jim O'Neill @ProSyn prosyn.org/rIO2zIH Also about who gets to use point of care rapid diagnostic tests. Need to broaden our horizons and start bringing them in to all potential #antibiotic access points which includes #OTC sellers
Agree @DrNeilStone Also witnessed the resulting reduction in moral injury among staff who no longer had to decide who would access advanced respiratory support and who wouldn't. At one stage, we were only accepting <50y olds with no comorbidities for ICU
I got the Covid vaccine and still got Covid, you probably did too. I also saw that after vaccines came out, our intensive care unit which had been full of dying Covid patients..no longer was. It's not all about you.
1316 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. And 856 days since they barred women from university. With every passing day, millions of women & girls in Afghanistan are lost — to poverty, violence, and extremism. And we are letting it happen.
The social determinants of misinformation | The BMJ bmj.com/content/389/bm…