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Senior Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. personal views. likes or retweets only for dissemination.
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Joined July 2012
.@SecRubio: “We are not going to spend billions of dollars funding the NGO industrial complex while close and important partners like Kenya ... either have no role to play or have very little influence over how healthcare money is being spent.”
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US Secretary of State @SecRubio talking about the signed controversial MoUs that have just seen Pres. Ruto secure $1.6B in exchange for a 25 year long health care data and pathogen sharing.
BREAKING: Kenya becomes the first African country to sign the controversial US Health MoUs earning 1.6B in funds disbursed through the next 5 years in exchange for health care data & Specimens for the next 25 years. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hints at 50 more countries
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Health care in the USA: money has become the mission - The Lancet @DrTomFrieden
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Despite extraordinary scientific and medical resources, the US health-care system underperforms. In this Review we consider the damage wrought by decades of market-based policies that have stimulated...
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Immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza have shown consistent effectiveness and safety and are associated with a substantially reduced risk of hospitalization and severe disease across populations. Findings from a @CIDRAP systematic review underscore the enduring value
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At long last - all the best to the state of Maharashtra from @htTweets. @nr_pedhemonc @chipfoundation @diwan_vinod @Reva4542
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Denmark has long been a shining model as one of the world's happiest countries, with a generous welfare state. So why – and how – has it become a model of a very different kind: as a nation with some of the harshest immigration laws in Europe? I explained:
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Modi or Macaulay? "Now that India is a democracy, it is up to Indians to decide what kind of education they want for their children." - read my summary of Tilak's address on "National Education" at @firstpost:
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It is up to Indians to decide what kind of education they want for their children. The Macaulay model is still alive and well, but the national model is also a viable alternative
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I am shocked to find a deep fake video of myself promoting some unscientific & useless remedy! We need an urgent strategy to fight mis & disinformation, especially in the era of #AI & deep fakes. https://t.co/F7t3OvV0gk
@WHO @MoHFW_INDIA @GoI_MeitY @CDSCO_INDIA_INF @ICMRDELHI
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Swaminathan Aiyar has an insightful take based on field visits to the interiors of Bihar. "It's not the freebies, stupid." Worth a read. It's often hard to quantify the impact of hard infra and capacity that takes years to build on the quality of lives and livelihoods
Paying just over $100 into the bank accounts of millions of women helped Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his regional ally cruise to victory, writes @andymukherjee70
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Big win for Prime Minister Modi in key Indian 🇮🇳 election. The electoral alliance of BJP and Nitish Kumar won a landslide in Bihar state election this week. This matters a lot as Bihar is the second most populous state of India and also the poorest with a lot of development work
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#WATCH | Delhi | ICMR Director General Rajiv Bahl says, "We have had an impressive decline (of tuberculosis cases in India)... This is all due to the vision of our Prime Minister, who said that India will fight TB and win. We are moving towards that victory... The ICMR has made
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An impressive thread, finding commonalities & differences in my and @MohanCRaja‘s analyses of multilateralism amid today’s world order challenges
“Multilateralism isn’t dead” (@Tharoor) × “West is turning multipolar” (@MohanCRaja) The UN-centric order is fraying even as the West itself becomes plural, creating a world where multilateralism must be rebuilt from below while India manoeuvres across a looser Western
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The sound of silence: my latest #TharoorThink column in the @IndianExpress comes to grips with the reluctance of the Indian diaspora in America to speak up for the interests of their motherland, in the face of continued assaults from Washington:
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In today’s world, talent can express itself anywhere - Bangalore if not Boston, Surat if not San fran. Trump will help unleash India’s potential in a way no Indian leader has. He will end up Making India Great Again. Question is: Is India H1B ready? My views:
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Unlike Communist China, the rise of a democratic India does not threaten the free world. Partnership between the U.S. and India to counter China should be a no-brainer. It would serve America's interests to help India stand up to China. W/ @bill_drexel and @HudsonInstitute
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To achieve the Trump administration's foreign policy goals—outcompeting China—few objectives are more critical than getting U.S.-India relations back on track.
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India is essential in helping the U.S. move its supply chains from China. While Pres Trump works to bring manufacturing home, India stands alone in its potential to manufacture at China-like scale for products that can't be quickly or efficiently produced here. My latest w/
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To achieve the Trump administration's foreign policy goals—outcompeting China—few objectives are more critical than getting U.S.-India relations back on track.
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To face China, the United States needs a strong relationship with India. Read @NikkiHaley and @bill_drexel's full article in @Newsweek: https://t.co/52V32GQhAu
newsweek.com
To achieve the Trump administration's foreign policy goals—outcompeting China—few objectives are more critical than getting U.S.-India relations back on track.
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How is India, together with the BRICS, altering the global dynamics? https://t.co/uqGbYXxB32 via NaMo App
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