Visa discrimination, racism & humiliation by immigration & security personnel at borders and derogatory attitudes to the Global South Experts/people need to be stopped.

Let us establish a knowledge hub in the #GlobalSouth where experts can share their experiences freely.

An update: 20 LGBTQ people in Malaysia have been charged with ‘encouraging vice’, simply for existing.

Not only is the raid at #REXKL a clear attack on the LGBT+ community, it also highlights the role the state plays when it chooses to use repressive apparatuses to persecute marginalised groups in this country.

Horrified at this image of LGBTQ people having been rounded up by the Islamic religious authorities in Malaysia today. They must be released immediately.

A mini clip from yesterday’s Platform for ACT-A Civil Society & Community Reps intervention at the final ACT-Accelerator Facilitation Council - mentioning PCR fundamentalism, a rights-based approach to testing, Liberia’s multiyear oxygen plan, salarying of community health workers, a new TRIPS order, & Long COVID.

A huge 🙏 to you Dr Dr Fifa A Rahman for being such a strong & consistent voice for #accesstooxygen to ACT-Accelerator leads when LMICs needed it most. #EveryBreathCounts salutes your leadership. #ACTogether #TruthtoPower #KnowHerName Matahari Global Solutions Platform for ACT-A Civil Society & Community Reps #InvestinOxygen

Tigray has run out of medical supplies such as vaccines, antibiotics and insulin, World Health Organization (WHO) says, warning that many deaths are probably going unrecorded from preventable and treatable diseases. Only about 9% of health facilities in Tigray are fully functional. buff.ly/3FtCNSm

I got asked why I didn’t cite Susan Strange. I was then asked to include corrections to include Susan Strange. Turns out the examiner had written articles with Susan Strange. Always find out who your examiners’ buddies are.

“Junior doctors are leaving, they’re demoralised... and because they are some of the most highly trained doctors in the world, people are begging for them”

This consultant psychiatrist outlines problems facing the NHS and cites a “massive workforce crisis” in her sector #bbcqt

And also to thank Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for his leadership through this pandemic - it was the right Director-General for a pandemic of this magnitude - leading with humanity and a passion for equity.

Dr Fifa A Rahman shares 2 requests:

1️⃣ A new TRIPS order and more technology transfer
2️⃣ Our very first Long COVID technical meeting (with a request for the ACT-Accelerator Hub to facilitate this) given the underemphasis on #LongCOVID in this transition

Dr Fifa A Rahman: ‘on oxygen, this pandemic has been a wakeup call on poor national level planning and international donor support for medical oxygen infrastructure’

Dr Fifa A Rahman highlights the need for the globally community to actively start looking at equal intellectual partnership of LMICs, not as a tick in the box diversity initiative but rather as a fundamental component of commodities deployment and pandemic response

Keir Starmer is entitled to his own views on a British Indian PM, but why is he censoring those of a British Indian woman?

There is a word for that, and it's not nice.

The world has had enough of the pandemic but it hasn’t yet had enough of us.

We must remain committed – personally, politically and financially – to addressing inequity, so that everyone can meet the challenge of #COVID19 .

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