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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JENNA COLEMAN (April 27, 1986)

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A Big TB Announcement

Greetings from Washington D.C., where I spent the morning meeting with senators before joining a panel that included TB survivor Shaka Brown, Dr. Phil LoBue of the CDC, and Dr. Atul Gawande of USAID. Dr. Gawande announced a major new project to bring truly comprehensive tuberculosis care to regions in Ethiopia and the Philippines. Over the next four years, this project can bring over $80,000,000 in new money to fight TB in these two high-burden countries.

Our family is committing an additional $1,000,000 a year to help fund the project in the Philippines, which has the fourth highest burden of tuberculosis globally.

Here’s how it breaks down: The Department of Health in the Philippines has made TB reduction a major priority and has provided $11,000,0000 per year in matching funds to go alongside $10,000,000 contributed by USAID and an additional $1,000,000 donated by us. This $22,000,000 per year will fund everything from X-Ray machines, medications, and GeneXpert tests to training and employing a huge surge of community health workers, nurses, and doctors who are calling themselves TB Warriors. In an area that includes nearly 3,000,000 people, these TB Warriors will screen for TB, identify cases, provide curative treatment, and offer preventative therapy to close contacts of the ill. We know this Search-Treat-Prevent model is the key to ending tuberculosis, but we hope this project will be both a beacon and a blueprint to show that It’s possible to radically reduce the burden of TB in communities quickly and permanently. It will also, we believe, save many, many lives.

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I believe we can’t end TB without these kinds of public/private partnerships. After all, that’s how we ended smallpox and radically reduced the global burden of polio. It’s also how we’ve driven down death from malaria and HIV. For too long, TB hasn’t had the kind of government or private support needed to accelerate the fight against the disease, but I really hope that’s starting to change. I’m grateful to USAID for spearheading this project, and also to the Philippine Ministry of Health for showing such commitment and prioritizing TB.

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One reason this project is even possible: Both the cost of diagnosis (through GeneXpert tests) and the cost of treatment with bedaquiline are far lower than they were a year ago, and that is due to public pressure campaigns, many of which were organized by nerdfighteria. I’m not asking you for money (yet); Hank and I will be funding this in partnership with a few people in nerdfighteria who are making major gifts. But I am asking you to continue pressuring the corporations that profit from the world’s poorest people to lower their prices. I’ve seen some of the budgets, and it’s absolutely jaw-dropping how many more tests and pills are available because of what you’ve done as a community.

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I don’t yet have the details on which region of the Philippines we’ll be working in, but it will be an area that includes millions of people–perhaps as many as 3 million. And it will include urban, suburban, and rural areas to see the different responses needed to provide comprehensive care in different communities. This will not (to start!) be a nationwide campaign, because even though $80,000,000 is a lot of money, it’s not enough to fund comprehensive care in a nation as large as the Philippines. But we hope that it will serve as a model–to the nation, to the region, and to the world–of what’s possible. 

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I’m really excited (and grateful) that our community gets to have a front-row seat to see the challenges and hopefully the successes of implementing comprehensive care. Just in the planning, this project has involved so many contributors–NGOs in the Philippines, global organizations like the Partners in Health community, USAID, the national Ministry of Health in the Philippines, and regional health authorities as well. There are a lot of partners here, but they’ve been working together extremely well over the last few months to plan for this project, which will start more or less immediately thanks to their incredibly hard work.

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gonna buy this god-forsaken web site and charge all y'all $8 a month to edit reblogs.

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People are like, "He's not very active on here," but do y'all know how many unsent drafts I have clapping back at the haters who still think Paper Towns is a Manic Pixie Dream Girl novel?

#not feeding the trolls on the reading incomprehension website is a good call john

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Here is a Draft I Wrote on August 24th, 2023

Hello. Today is my 46th birthday. I am really happy to be here. I am especially happy to be here because my previous selves did so much work--including when they did not want to be here--to make sure that I would have a chance to walk in the woods on a very hot August day and marvel in gratitude.

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I just cannot wait for y'all to see Turtles All the Way Down. It's so moving, and so funny, and somehow Isabela Merced and Cree have found a way to make a movie about best friendship that makes the love between best friends feel every bit as important and worthy as romantic love, which was one of my biggest hopes for the movie. I hope you'll watch it with a loved one or two, because it's best when shared. (Like most things.)

Max will not like me saying so, because of course they want the maximum possible number of logins, but I say get one max login and invite ten people over to watch it.

#tatwd #sooooo pumped for this

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actually i deleted my reblog of john greens cock monologue bc even though its iconic and i'm pretty sure he can laugh about it looking back, i actually think it should just stop circulating. real people actually still think that he's a pedophile and has done nothing good for the world ever

#do people just call other people horrible things for no reason #have we not learned and grown in the past 10 years

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John Green wakes up every day and says I will embarrass myself online

#look the cock monologue is funny but why are we still being mean to him #he and his brother put so much time and energy and MONEY into good things #educating people in accessible ways #fighting healthcare inequities across the globe #have you heard about their work fighting materal and infant mortality in sierra leone? and johns advocacy work to eradicate tuberculosis? #i think he deserves to like taylor swift #and even if he was just an average dude with nothing spectacular idk i thought we were above yucking someones yum

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#as a rehab volunteer please only rescue if they are clearly injured AND you have a plan of how to get them to a professional

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Reblogging would be a great help, but don’t feel pressured to

#1 or 3 but they're literally over by only .1% #otherwise its perfect

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#20+40 = 60 #7+8 = 15 #60+15 = 75

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Mice straight up go on missions and no body talks about it

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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✨ Please reblog the polls to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update! ✨

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when christian artists change the line in hallelujah from “maybe there’s a God above” to “I know that there’s a God above” >:c

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