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muh bird flu
Taylor Williamson - Implementing partner with USAID
>muh bird flu
>Redacted
kek..he was crying about the tape
muh tanzania
looks like the same guy
Taylor Williamson
Health Governance Specialist
RTI International
Taylor Williamson is a health governance specialist for the Global Health Group at RTI International. He has worked in East Africa for four years, having lived in both Tanzania and Rwanda. Mr. Williamson manages RTI’s portfolio of health governance activities, initially for the Health Systems 20/20 Project, and currently for the Health Policy Project (HPP). His work has included governance assessments throughout the Caribbean and West Africa, technical assistance to the National Agency for the Control of AIDS in Nigeria on HIV mainstreaming, training and advice for the Institut Régional de Santé Publique in Benin, and documenting and developing health governance approaches and tools. Before joining RTI in 2009, Mr. Williamson worked with the Cooperative Housing Foundation International in Rwanda as HIV/AIDS and capacity building technical advisor. He managed the civil society strengthening portfolio of the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project and the Behavior Change and Social Marketing Project, including organizational development and cooperative development training and mentoring. He conducted analyses of the age distribution of VCT clients in Rwanda, vitamin A distribution in Tanzania, the impact of livelihood on food security in Mozambique, and the effects of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 on health center financing. Mr. Williamson earned a Masters of Public Health from Tulane University and a BA in biology from Colorado College.
https://sid-us.org/taylor-williamson
>https://sid-us.org/taylor-williamson
We are a global town square for international development.
SID-United States, a US-based 501(c)3, is the largest and most active chapter of the Society for International Development (SID),an international network founded in 1957 to serve as a global forum dedicated to sustainable economic, social, and political development.
SID-US is a membership-driven knowledge organization bringing together people from diverse backgrounds, disciplines, and career stages in a neutral, independent forum to discuss important issues in international development. We convene NGOs, the private sector, small businesses, universities, multilateral development institutions, government agencies, consulting firms, and individuals interested in international development.
Through the locally-driven programs of its member organizations and individuals, the majority of whom work on the front lines of development, SID-US is uniquely positioned to inform and promote sustainable global development.
The SID network is spread across several chapters and 3,000 members in more than 50 countries.The Secretariat has offices in Dar es-Salaam (Tanzania), Nairobi (Kenya), and Rome (Italy).
Vision
An inclusive, diverse, informed community of globally engaged organizations and people.
Mission
We connect and convene organizations and people to engage, enrich, and expand our globally-minded community to build a more equitable world.
> Taylor Williamson
>Health Governance Specialist
>RTI International
Research Triangle Institute, trading as[2] RTI International,is a nonprofit organization headquartered in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, USA. RTI provides research and technical services. It was founded in 1958 with $500,000 in funding from local businesses and the three North Carolina universities that form the Research Triangle. RTI research has covered topics like HIV/AIDS, healthcare, education curriculum and the environment.
RTI has had five presidents:[13]
George R. Herbert 1958 - 1988
Thomas Wooten 1988 - 1998
Victoria Franchetti Haynes 1998 - 2012
Wayne Holden 2012 - 2022
Tim J. Gabel 2022–Present[14]
Organization
RTI International is a non-profit research organization.[15] It was initially established by three local universities but it is managed by a separate board and management team.[12] RTI's structure consists of members of the corporation, the board of governors and corporate officers. The members of the corporation elect governors, who in turn create the organization's policies.
RTI also has a separate business called RTI Health Solutions, which supports biotech, diagnostic and medical device companies.[16] In 2012, the organization's largest service areas were in social, statistical and environmental sciences. More than half of RTI's staff have advanced degrees in one of 120 fields and work on approximately 1,200 projects at a time.[5]
Projects
Wani (left) and Wall (right) holding a piece of tree bark used to synthesize cancer intervention drugs
RTI International's research has spanned areas like cancer, pollution, drug abuse and education.[9] It manages the National Laboratory Certification Program (NLCP).[17]
RTI scientists Monroe Wall and Mansukh C. Wani synthesized the anti-cancer treatments camptothecin in 1966, from the bark of the Camptotheca tree, and Taxol in 1971, from a Pacific yew tree.[18] These two drugs account for $3 billion a year in sales by pharmaceutical companies.[5] In 1986, RTI was awarded a $4 million contract with the National Cancer Institute to conduct an eight-year clinical trial on the effects of an anti-smoking campaign.[19] Two years later, RTI began a $4.4 million program to co-ordinate AIDS drug trials for the National Institutes of Health. This grew to $26 million by 1988.[20]
RTI scientists helped to identify toxic chemicals in the Love Canal in the 1970s.[5] In 1978, RTI researched the possibility of improving solar cells for the US Department of Energy[21] and coal gasification for the Environmental Protection Agency in 1979.[22] RTI trained Chinese government employees on using computer models to forecast pollution patterns before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.[23]
An RTI survey in 1973, commissioned by the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, confirmed earlier research that found no connection between drug use and violent crime, despite perceptions of heroin users as more prone to violence.[24] A 1975 study that RTI conducted for the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism found that 28 percent of 13,000 teenagers polled were "problem drinkers", despite their age.[25] A 1996 study by RTI and funded by the Pentagon found that drug abuse in the military had been reduced by 90 percent since 1980.[26]
>>RTI International
In 1975, RTI recommended that the Bureau of the Mint halt expensive production of cents and replace half-dollars with a new dollar coin.[27] In 2001, RTI scientists created a new thinfilm superlattice material that uses the thermoelectric effect to cool microprocessors.[28] A 2009 study by RTI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published in Health Affairs estimated that obesity in the US caused $147 billion in increased medical care costs annually.[29] RTI also developed a reading skill measurement program, the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA), for the USAID and the World Bank. The EGRA has been used in 70 languages and 50 countries.[30]
In the 1980s, RTI created and distributed the Architecture Design and Assessment System, a set of software programs that helped model intricate systems. The ADAS programs were produced until the mid-1990s.[31]
RTI began working for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) after the conflict between Iraq and the US began in 2003.[5] USAID work represented 35 percent of RTI's revenue by 2010.[32] Under Iraq’s previous, highly centralized regime, citizens had almost no experience with local governance or active participation in the governing process. To inform and train Iraqis in local governance systems, RTI ultimately set up offices in Iraq’s 18 provinces. A staff of 200 people drawn from 33 countries, augmented by the hiring of 800 Iraqis, was deployed.[8]
In 2004, Nextreme was spun off from RTI to develop a thermoelectric material for semiconductors commercially.[33] In October 2018, RTI published a study showing that heroin users who used fentanyl testing strips were more likely to adopt safer drug habits
probably
Taylor gets around
NEWS
06 February 2025
‘It is chaos’: US funding freezes are endangering global health
Abrupt changes to programmes including USAID inhibit global efforts to stop disease such as HIV, malaria and more, say researchers.
By Ewen Callaway
SAID programmes fund global efforts to tackle diseases such as HIV and malaria.Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty
Franklin Wanyama’s world was thrown into turmoil last month, when US President Donald Trump abruptly announced a freeze on foreign aid. Wanyama, a 29-year-old in Nairobi who was born HIV-positive, is one of millions of people worldwide whose life-saving treatment is funded by a US foreign aid programme.
The HIV clinic Wanyama visits has managed to continue delivering medications to its patients — although many clinics aren’t, say researchers. But drug supplies are being rationed.
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“We patients who are HIV positive, we are really panicked,” says Wanyama, whose two children do not carry the virus. He’s lost his job mentoring other HIV-positive people at a US-funded facility and is worried about continued access to medication. “The way things are going, I feel like I have worked so much for nothing.”
As the Trump administration announces drastic policy changes, nowhere is the shock more palpable than in the field of global health. Scientists, medics and health officials say the outsize US influence on battling disease globally will be difficult to quickly replace.
US actions such as the foreign-aid freeze and its pull-out from the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, will affect billions of dollars in annual funding to battle HIV, malaria and other areas in global health. That will cost lives and threaten global security, say researchers. “It will make the world a less safe place,” says Peter Horby, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of Oxford, UK.
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Funding freeze
After the Trump administration announced a three-month freeze on foreign aid last month, effects have rippled through the global-health community. Programmes supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) — where many employees have been furloughed, according to news reports — fund research, prevention and care for diseases such as HIV and malaria, and work on other global health priorities.
“People haven’t had a chance to get alternative funding because of the abrupt nature of this,” says Salim Abdool Karim, director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, in Durban. The centre was due this week to enrol the first patient in a USAID-funded trial of HIV vaccines, which is now on hold. It is using its reserve funds to continue a trial testing whether a vaginal insertion can prevent HIV transmission.
>Taylor gets around
It is chaos,” says an HIV researcher in Africa, who runs a clinic that treats thousands of patients and is supported by a US programme called the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and asked not to be named because of fears of reprisal. More than 20 million people mostly in Africa, including more than a million children and pregnant people, receive antiretroviral drugs through the US$6.5-billion programme.
The clinic has had to suspend staff, which were funded by PEPFAR, and its patients are continuing to receive drugs only because of volunteer efforts. Last night, the clinic received a waiver from the US government that appears to allow them to resume HIV treatment, but uncertainty abounds.
HIV treatments threatened
In South Africa, where the government provides the bulk of HIV care using some PEPFAR funding, the impact of the aid freeze will be minimal, says Abdool Karim. But in many other African countries, “if PEPFAR services stop, the effect will be catastrophic. The governments can’t just step in to meet the shortfall”.
Stopping antiretroviral treatment causes virus levels to rebound, making it possible for a person to transmit HIV — including through pregnancy to unborn children — and facilitating the evolution of drug resistance. “I’m hoping that someone somewhere sees sense and does not continue this abrupt ending of AIDS treatment programmes,” says Abdool Karim.
The President’s Malaria Initiative, a US$1-billion government programme that funds malaria prevention and research, has also seen funding dry up.Taylor Williamson, an employee at a company that helps to implement the malaria programme and other global health projects, says the aid freeze will have catastrophic effects.
His firm has more than one million insecticide-treated bed nets in a warehouse in Ethiopia that, along with antimalarial drugs and diagnostics, it now can’t deploy, and at time when malaria transmission spikes in many countries. “Without those services — especially now that it’s the rainy season in a lot of the world — people will die,” Williamson says. “We’re putting kids’ lives at risk by stopping this.”
WHO withdrawal
In Geneva this week, the WHO’s executive board grappled with how to handle the looming US withdrawal from the organization (this week, Argentina announced that it will also seek to leave the agency). Last year, the United States contributed nearly £1 billion to the organization, whose 2-year budget for 2024 and 2025 was $6.8 billion. In response, the agency has implemented cost-cutting measures.
Much of that money is earmarked for specific projects, such as polio eradication, and other governments and organizations will now need to fill gaps, says David Heymann, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a former assistant director-general at the WHO. “Somebody’s going to have step in and fill that void if polio eradication is to continue.”
A US pullout from WHO, as well as a communication freeze announced by Trump between officials at the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, and the agency, will also affect the exchange of vital information and technical expertise, say scientists. The CDC had operated more than a dozen ‘WHO collaborating centres’ and many employees had been seconded to the organization. The WHO also provides a daily threat assessment to member states, and it’s unclear whether the United States continues to receive this, says Heymann.
Horby worries about how a diminished US role in global health will affect preparedness for pandemic threats such as H5N1 influenza and outbreak responses — including to one ongoing Ebola virus outbreak in Uganda, another possible one in the Democratic Republic of Congo and a Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania. “It’s a big concern that there will be a huge loss of money and expertise on these global health threats,” says Horby.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00385-9
speaking of hotels…lets check in on Massachusetts
all pb
>>22551885, >>22552134 , >>22552147, >>22552159, >>22552166 FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in NYC /X how many cities?
Jessica Machado
@jessmachadoshow
Last month, the state of Massachusetts released hundreds of incident reports taken at the state funded migrant shelters that detail what's really happening inside the "Healey Hotels."
Starting at 9 AM today, I am going to read through each report and classify what each report is about: domestic violence, drugs, sexual assaults, child welfare checks. Every hour on the hour, I will report back to this thread and give you a tally of where we're at and share one report that I have read. I will spend my whole day doing this, until 5 PM this afternoon.
Someone has to do it.
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