Veronika Wirtz (@verowirtz.bsky.social) (@verowirtz) 's Twitter Profile
Veronika Wirtz (@verowirtz.bsky.social)

@verowirtz

Health systems researcher, pharmacist, mom, wife. Professor @BUSPH. Promoting equitable and affordable access to and quality use of medicines.

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Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.” nytimes.com/2025/02/02/ups…

Atul Gawande (@atul_gawande) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Musk's claim that just 10% of US aid reaches recipients is absurd. @cgdev lays out the facts: - US gov costs are just 10% - Rest reaches recipients mostly thru US corps/nonprofits + multilateral agencies - ~10% goes thru foreign organizations cgdev.org/blog/no-90-per…

Musk's claim that just 10% of US aid reaches recipients is absurd. @cgdev lays out the facts:
- US gov costs are just 10%
- Rest reaches recipients mostly thru US corps/nonprofits + multilateral agencies
- ~10% goes thru foreign organizations
cgdev.org/blog/no-90-per…
Barack Obama (@barackobama) 's Twitter Profile Photo

USAID has been fighting disease, feeding children, and promoting goodwill around the world for six decades. As this article makes clear, dismantling this agency would be a profound foreign policy mistake - one that Congress should resist. nytimes.com/2025/02/06/opi…

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Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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We cannot afford to lose what increases all our safety, health and prosperity - something that has received large approval over the past six decades from so many people in the US and abroad: youtube.com/watch?v=PqUESH…

We cannot afford to lose what increases all our safety, health and prosperity - something that has received large approval over the past six decades from so many people in the US and abroad: youtube.com/watch?v=PqUESH…
HRP (@hrpresearch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#SRHR research affects everyone. Without it: ❌ Unintended pregnancies rise ❌ Unsafe abortions increase ❌ Maternal health worsens ❌ STIs & HIV spread faster ❌ Fertility care becomes less accessible SRHR saves and improves lives. Learn more: 🔗bit.ly/3Cto8aL

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"So there is always hope for something else, something better. It's in ordinary people organizing like my comrades in the Treatment Action Campaign did, against the odds, because failure would come at too high a cost." nytimes.com/2025/02/13/opi…

Pam Das 💙👊🏾⚖️ (@pam_das) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yup! More outbreaks, more preventable illness and deaths. Undoing decades of progress. The American public will be paying the price. Makes no sense 🤷🏽‍♀️

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@zelenskyyua) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I had a good and substantive conversation with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte Mark Rutte. I shared details of my meeting with President Erdoğan, where we discussed Türkiye’s role in providing security guarantees. Ukraine needs broad representation from countries: Europe,

Ed Markey (@senmarkey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I worked for more than a decade to create a national climate bank. Trump and Musk are trying to dismantle it in days. These funds were appropriated by Congress and should be readily available. We're asking Citibank why not. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

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U.S. international assistance helps avoid costly wars and makes Americans #SaferStronger. For every $1 the U.S. invests in prevention, we save $16 in military response costs.

U.S. international assistance helps avoid costly wars and makes Americans #SaferStronger. For every $1 the U.S. invests in prevention, we save $16 in military response costs.
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Physicians at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they’ve now treated a handful of unvaccinated children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage. nytimes.com/2025/03/25/hea…