Wim Vandevelde (he/him)
@wimvandevelde.bsky.social
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Treatment access activist 🌈 The right to health is a fundamental part of our human rights and of our understanding of a life in dignity 🌐 Posts my own etc
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EATG is at the #EACS2025 in Paris, 15–18 October!
Join us for key sessions, workshops, activities in the Community Corner and the launch of a Glasgow Manifesto Report as we spotlight Europe’s role in tackling HIV.

Read more→ www.eatg.org/events/eatg-...

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EATG at EACS 2025 | EATG
This is an overview of EATG activities at the 20th European AIDS Conference (Paris, 15-18 October 2025)
www.eatg.org
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🚨 UNAIDS Must Not Be Sunset! 🚨
The Fight AIDS Coalition (FAC) has issued a statement rejecting the UN80 proposal to dismantle UNAIDS by 2026.

Please SHARE widely: bit.ly/4pzwbpU

SIGN ON to the NGO Delegation statement here 👉 unaidspcbngo.org/news/with-th...

#FightAIDSNow
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Too many lives are being lost because CD4 testing is being deprioritized. The CD4 Monitoring Fact Sheet offers a clear picture of where the gaps are, and what can be done to fix them.

📥 Download your copy here: tinyurl.com/CD4testing
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Call their bluff, let Big Pharma walk!

“NHS was built to be universal free & public. If it becomes another playground for hedge funds & Big Pharma, it wont be envy of the world anymore. It will be just another cautionary tale about the power of corporate capture”

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Big Pharma is throwing its toys out of the pram — and Wes Streeting is caught in the crossfire
The privatisation playbook: starve the NHS of funding, let public services fail, then hand them over to profiteers while blaming “inefficiency.”
open.substack.com
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It is over for the genocide deniers.

Even the BBC is now splashing on the UN commission of inquiry concluding that Israel has committed genocide.

Those who supported Israel's onslaught:

You backed a genocide.

You will never scrub the shame away.
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So delighted that the legendary AIDS and social activist Mr @zackieachmat.bsky.social will soon visit @mcgill.ca to receive the inaugural Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity and deliver the lecture!

If you are in Montreal, join in person

If not, join online

www.mcgill.ca/globalhealth...
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Several vaccines have shown promise against cancer, but this one is notable because it’s “off-the-shelf” — not custom-made for each patient — which makes it simpler & potentially less expensive.
GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.
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The Blow to Transparency: How Big Pharma Turned Principles of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Against Itself

Analysis by Vineeth Penmetsa

genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/the-blow-t...
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Join us on 24 Hours to Save AIDS Research NOW to hear about the incredible successes of the NIH-funded HIV research networks, with leaders Myron Cohen, Larry Corey, Joseph Eron, and Sharon Nachman on YouTube: bit.ly/45Qftts #saveAIDSresearch #HIV
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An expert panel about the next generation of HIV researchers is happening now on 24 Hours to Save AIDS Research. Join Monica Gandhi, John Sauceda, and Allison Agwu on YouTube: bit.ly/45Qftts #saveAIDSresearch #HIV #HIVresearch
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Join us for 24 Hours to Save AIDS Research in TWO days to hear from Annette Sohn, Trevor Hoppe, Larry Corey, Kara Chew, and many more! Register bit.ly/45U1keO. #HIV #saveAIDSresearch #HIVresearch
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The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out.

In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing.

Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.
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It has been five months since the murder in Gqeberha of Imam Muhsin Hendricks, and there has been no public update from the police or any indication of progress in the case.

Read groundup.org.za/article/afte... by Yaseen Bardien
After five months, silence on murder of imam Muhsin Hendricks
Hendricks, who was openly gay, was gunned down in Gqeberha in February
groundup.org.za
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Fewer than 24,000 of over 147,000 claimants have been compensated, while some 385,000 people have registered an intention to claim, and over 175,000 have made appointments to have their claims processed.

Read groundup.org.za/article/r5-b... by Sipokazi Fokazi
Huge delays in payouts to miners with silicosis and TB
Delays by the multi-billion rand Tshiamiso Trust have meant 84% of lodged claims have not received compensation
groundup.org.za
“Successful people I know don’t fight AI, they teach themselves how to direct it and use it to their benefit. They understand that humans will always be in charge of technology.”
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🗣️NEW SPEAKER!

Alasdair Stuart will be speaking at LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED, 15 September 2025, London/online.
@lshtmcepr.bsky.social

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...