Els Torreele @elstorreele@universeodon.com(@ElsTorreele) 's Twitter Profileg
Els Torreele @[email protected]

@ElsTorreele

Researcher/advocate for social justice and health rights, incl medical innovation prioritizing health needs and equitable access. 🇵🇸

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louis charbonneau(@loucharbon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 New from Human Rights Watch: Responsible for Rising Settler Violence in West Bank;
Entire Palestinian Communities Displaced Months After Attacks hrw.org/news/2024/04/1…

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Third World Network(@3rdworldnetwork) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Insufficient, imbalanced, and burdensome on developing countries.

K.M. Gopakumar, senior researcher Third World Network, explained why the current Pandemic Agreement text will do more harm than good if signed as it is in a Devex article by Jenny Lei Ravelo.

devex.com/news/experts-w…

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Yanis Varoufakis(@yanisvaroufakis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

No one who wants to see fails to recognise what Israel is up to: Wholesale ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the West Bank and E. Jerusalem - with the FULL complicity of the US, the UK, Germany, France and the rest of the sad EU minions keeping quiet out of fear. theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

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Al Jazeera English(@AJEnglish) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A panel of doctors addressed the UN, shedding light on the suffering and atrocities endured by Palestinians in Gaza amid Israel's ongoing war ⤵️

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Eric Reinhart(@_Eric_Reinhart) 's Twitter Profile Photo

All while every major US medical professional organization stays silent and our most influential journal, the New England Journal of Medicine, has refused to publish anything about health in Palestine since 1986. We belong to an ethically empty, cynically opportunistic field.

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Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng(@drtlaleng) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I tell you I’m worried about successfully entering Germany in a few months for the AIDS conference, I’m not even joking. And there is no protection or support if/when should they intimidate one like this. Just expectations of nerves of steal.The things we carry in anticipation 🥵

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Yanis Varoufakis(@yanisvaroufakis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Germany's Interior Ministry has issued a “Betätigungsverbot” against me, a ban on any political activity. Not just a ban on visiting Germany but also from participation via Zoom. Here is the speech whose publication caused this ban. Judge for yourselves! yanisvaroufakis.eu/2024/04/12/my-…

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Ralph Nader(@RalphNader) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hamas abducted 240 or so hostages on October 7th. Since then, Israel has kidnapped over 8000 Palestinians and sent them, without charges, to a concentration prison in the Negev desert. Even Israeli doctors are describing the horrors and the tortures in that remote place. Aren’t…

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt(@FranceskAlbs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My report provides the frame and analytical tools to understand what Israel is doing to the people in Gaza. With every passing day new evidence of the extent Israel has considered everything 'targetable', 'destroyable', and everyone 'killable' in Gaza, emerges

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Evan Hill(@evanhill) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Post contacted 25 aid groups, U.N. agencies and donor countries to ask about aid delivery to Gaza and found that Israeli authorities have denied or restricted access to items ranging from lifesaving medical supplies to toys to chocolate croissants.

“I think it’s…

The Post contacted 25 aid groups, U.N. agencies and donor countries to ask about aid delivery to Gaza and found that Israeli authorities have denied or restricted access to items ranging from lifesaving medical supplies to toys to chocolate croissants. “I think it’s…
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Kalipso Chalkidou(@kchalkidou) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'AIDS Healthcare Foundation says Moderna’s promise to build a state-of-the-art mRNA manufacturing facility in Africa in 2022 was nothing more than a self-serving effort to deflect criticism for price gouging on its COVID-19 vaccine after the pharma company announced today that…

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The Independent Panel(@TheIndPanel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Plans to put Moderna vx plant 'on hold' in Kenya underscores need for investment in regional resilience.

Vaccine innovation *is happening now* in the Global South.

Support researchers & their vision of pandemic vaccines as a public good.

Watch: bit.ly/RDEquity

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sizwe sikamusi(@SizweLo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Capitalists equate public ownership of crucial sectors like electricity and water with “communism”—and thus inherently evil—but for some unknown reason they have no problem with monopolies as long as the ownership, control, profits and decision-making are in private hands.

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Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده(@RamAbdu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor estimates that over 13,000 Palestinians are either missing under debris, buried in indiscriminate mass graves, or forcibly disappeared in Israeli prisons and detention facilities, where some have even been killed.
euromedmonitor.org/en/article/626…

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá(@seyeabimbola) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New paper in BMJ Global Health by Danielle (Dani) Poole, ScD MPH et al:

Damage to medical complexes in Gaza: a geospatial analysis gh.bmj.com/content/9/4/e0…

'The proportion of damage to medical complexes was similar to all other buildings despite their status as protected civilian objects by IHL.'

New paper in @GlobalHealthBMJ by @drdaninpoole et al: Damage to medical complexes in Gaza: a geospatial analysis gh.bmj.com/content/9/4/e0… 'The proportion of damage to medical complexes was similar to all other buildings despite their status as protected civilian objects by IHL.'
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Melissa Barber (@mbarber.bsky.social)(@mellabarb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1 in 4 people with diabetes in the US ration their insulin because it is unaffordable. GLP-1s could cost Medicare > $100bn.

In a study out today in JAMA Network Open, we analyze how much medicines actually cost to manufacture. 🧵1/

jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

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The Independent Panel(@TheIndPanel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today The Independent Panel underscores:

must adopt a meaningful agreement

Helen Clark submission to the on agreement essentials

🧪 investment in R&D hubs in the Global South

🫂 the human toll of s

Latest ➡️ bit.ly/4aIYivj

Today @TheIndPanel underscores: ✅ #WHA77 must adopt a meaningful #pandemic agreement ✅ @HelenClarkNZ submission to the #INB on agreement essentials 🧪 investment in R&D hubs in the Global South 🫂 the human toll of #pandemics Latest ➡️ bit.ly/4aIYivj
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Eli Valley(@elivalley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Israel used an automated system called 'Where's Daddy?' to ensure it killed AI-designated targets while the targets were at home with their spouses and children:
972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

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AJ+(@ajplus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Animators from Mexico, Lebanon and Colombia created the GRAM_palestina initiative to honor the children of Gaza and demand a ceasefire.

More than 13,000 Palestinian children have been killed by Israel during its attacks on Gaza since October 7.

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