Nadia Adjoa Sam, MD, CTropMed

A big step forward for HIV prevention in Nigeria We’re excited to be part of this important moment as Nigeria launches long-acting HIV prevention. This innovation has the potential to make prevention easier, more accessible, and more effective for many people.

👏 Honoured to welcome Lloyd Mulenga as an #AIDS2026 featured speaker! Director of Infectious Diseases at @mohzambia & Professor at @UniversityofZambia, Lloyd is a physician-scientist shaping #HIV prevention, drug resistance research & HIV programmes. 👉 aids2026.org/speakers

@iamverahokeyo Ok so I'm nowhere near your level, but: I have been to the country you are yet to visit... Let's go! ☺️

All, except saotome

Not counting airport transits: North, incl Western Sahara: 0/7 West (ECOWAS): 8/16 Central (Middle): 2/9 East (UN): 8/18 Southern: 2/5 Total Africa: 20/55 There's some way to go. I need to stop going to the same countries so often and branch out 😀 Now to find money & time...

This is partly why I couldn’t participate in academic decolonizing movements b/cuz they were not even remotely informed by the serious anti-black, anti-indigenous & anti-LGBT hysteria that we have to unpack on the African content. Fools running interference for colonial ideology.

Le Sahara n'est pas une barrière entre l'Afrique du nord et l'Afrique subsaharienne , c'est une continuité culturelle . Ceux qui le considèrent comme une barrière n'y ont jamais mit les pieds ou ne connaissent pas son histoire.

sinners is a terrible watch for people who have no basic understanding of american history, jim crow, irish history, the gospel to blues pipeline and the ongoing fight between the black church and black spirituality, or have never seen fireflies.

I am (was?) a global health researcher with US govt funding & y'all: we're extremely exhausted. The current climate of reduced funding & cancelled awards has left us in limbo. We are running on fumes. Motivation very low. We have to diversify portfolios or find non research jobs.

How meningitis rash looks on Black skin 👇🏾 Take note because there is no mention of how it presents itself on Black people.

People think war only kills people. But it also kills rivers, forests, animals, and air quality. We just don’t count those deaths.

The Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility invites proposals for Global Health Seed Grants, which provide up to $25,000 to catalyze international research grounded in equity and interdisciplinary collaborations. z.umn.edu/b5o8

For those of you who are struggling with the state of the world, and find yourselves with tears or so much emotion it can feel overwhelming: I hope you never lose your capacity to experience empathy, because it makes you human. It is abnormal to not feel anything, and to blindly adapt to a fundamentally unjust world. Let your love move you to solidarity and action and community, to be an example for what is possible and help create a world that is different.

Ce n’est pas juste une coiffure. Ce n’est pas juste des tresses. C’est un message. C’est une identité. C’est une déclaration silencieuse mais puissante. Sur la télévision nationale congolaise, une journaliste choisit d’apparaître avec ses cheveux naturels tressés. Pas pour faire le buzz. Pas pour provoquer. Mais simplement pour être elle-même. Et ça, c’est déjà révolutionnaire. ✊🏾 Pendant longtemps, les standards imposés ont voulu nous faire croire que le professionnalisme avait un seul visage. Une seule texture. Une seule norme. Aujourd’hui, l’image change. Et elle change parce que certaines personnes osent. Oser porter ses racines. Oser montrer sa culture. Oser redéfinir ce que signifie être présentable. La vraie élégance, ce n’est pas de se conformer. La vraie élégance, c’est d’assumer qui on est. Nos cheveux ne sont pas un obstacle. Nos cheveux ne sont pas un problème. Nos cheveux sont notre couronne. 👑 Si toi aussi tu penses que les cheveux afro, les tresses et les coiffures naturelles ont toute leur place partout à l’école, au bureau, à la télé alors ce post est pour toi. ❤️ Fierté 🌍 Culture ✨ Authenticité La normalisation commence par la visibilité. #CheveuxNaturels #FiertéAfricaine #BlackExcellence #BeautéAuthentique #AfroHair #Congo #Representation #NaturalBeauty #Identity #AfricaRising

⏳ 1 month left! Submit your abstract for the 18th Int’l Workshop on Pediatrics & HIV 2026 in Rio de Janeiro. 📌 𝗖𝗼-𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗜𝗗𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱 Deadline: 17 April 2026. 🔗 amededu.co/4ie8EHW #PediatricsHIV #HIVResearch #Rio2026

Each time I see this video I am so heartbroken what colonizers did to this man for simply standing up for his people.

⏪️ The image shows a Native American girl crying at the Geneva Conference in 1988 while speaking about the crime of sterilizing thousands of Native American women by the U.S. administration without their knowledge in order to limit the reproduction of Native Americans. This was not the only crime they committed. British settlers gave Native Americans blankets as what appeared to be a kind gesture, while they were hiding great malice. Those blankets were contaminated with the smallpox virus, which killed millions of them, and historians consider it the first biological war in history. Native Americans also suffered from starvation to death when settlers gathered herds of bison (whose meat was the primary food source for Native Americans) and killed them. The number of Native American victims throughout history exceeds 100 million people. This is the figure stated in historical references, and the original number may be much higher.

Academic scientists historically accepted lower salaries because the job offered intellectual freedom and institutional protection to pursue a passion for creating and disseminating knowledge. It was treated as a calling - closer to a priesthood or a federal judgeship than a corporate job. As universities became corporatized, that relationship disappeared. Scientists became minor players inside large university bureaucratic structures focused on revenue streams. If the freedom and protections of academic life disappear, there is no reason to accept a fraction of the salary.

I went into academia because of moments like that. The idea was that professors could push students to think more deeply than they thought possible. Unfortunately that ideal faded as education has shifted to a customer-service model. Long-term intellectual growth loses out to the short-term gratification of smiles, compliments, and avoiding difficult conversations.

The arts and humanities are essential for human flourishing and I will die on that hill

Ma grand mère elle a été mariée à 13 ans, suite à la mort de ses 2 parents. Elle m’a dit y’a quelques semaines : « Meussouma am banex ci sama aduna » Je n’ai jamais connu le bonheur dans ma vie. Il faut que les mariages de petites filles cessent.