Right to Health Action

Grassroots-powered movement leveraging COVID-19 for transformative change and health equity. #pandemicprevention

[Pranav Savanur @PranavSavanur]

Hi, thinking of purchasing hoodies and goodies for #BlackFridayDeals? Look no further and check out @R2HAction's merchandise store:

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Don't have $ but have ~5 hours/week? Donate your time with us!

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[Right to Health Action @R2HAction]

R2HA is pitching at the @newmediaventure NMV Summit in San Francisco this week! We look forward to meeting other movement partners and portfolio partners #NMVSummit2022

[Right to Health Action @R2HAction]

This #ClimateWeekNYC, join @HIHngo for a virtual chat about disrupting climate finance in ways that center Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities at the forefront of change. Happening Wed, 9/21 at 5:30 pm ET!
RSVP for the Livestream here: https://t.co/1zeOzs5TrQ

[Right to Health Action @R2HAction]

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"Of course [trans people] have higher rates of #LongCOVID...People who are denied access to health care, resources, or bodily safety are at higher risk of ill health outcomes, including this massive disabling event known as long COVID," - JD Davids

[Right to Health Action @R2HAction]

"Little Mx" racism ignored #monkeypox until white people caught it.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

⚠️BREAKING: at last—@WHO has finally declared the #monkeypox global outbreak a PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY OF INTERNATIONAL CONCERN. The WHO leadership has overruled the committee that had voted 6-8. Thank you @DrTedros!

[The New York Times @nytimes]

For the second time in two years, the WHO has taken the extraordinary step of declaring a global emergency. This time the cause is monkeypox, which has spread in just a few weeks to dozens of countries and infected tens of thousands of people. https://t.co/2x59kkkYbb

[Right to Health Action @R2HAction]

Published! In @DemJournal by our @gege50 & @pdavisx along w/ @kdurquiza: WB's Global Pandemic Fund will be a historic win, if we refuse to accept its colonialist undertone of "poor people just die sometimes" & ensure it prevents outbreaks at the source: https://t.co/hX160bXJ5g

[💙 Marked by COVID @MarkedByCovid]

💪🏾Thanks for teaming up with us on this, @R2HAction!

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"This is the tale of two years of ignored pleas from those #MarkedByCOVID, begging policymakers to enact the simple measures long known to stop pandemic disease outbreaks...

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[pdavisx @pdavisx]

Check out a truly historic @JoeBiden WIN you DIDN'T hear about. We're poised to pandemic-proof the planet —IF we break @WorldBank racist assumptions that outbreaks are inevitable & 'poor people just die.' @DemJournal deep dive by @R2HAction @MarkedByCovid https://t.co/k8YfSowwQB

[James Hudspeth, MD, FACP 🔸 @JamesCHudspeth]

I like that @ZoeWeinstein!
Exposure to birddogging on global HIV policy via @pdavisx @HealthGAP in med school set me off into global health/health equity now 2 decades ago. Chance encounters set our paths.
(Honored to now support Paul & colleagues @R2HAction for COVid policy!)

[Right to Health Action @R2HAction]

WHO declares Marburg outbreak in Ghana - "The disease, a very infectious hemorrhagic fever...is spread to people by fruit bats," Zoonotic disease spillovers will continue & we should be protecting EVERYONE via prevention - not just folks in rich countries
https://t.co/0W9sa3yKJB

[Right to Health Action @R2HAction]

TONIGHT! Want to learn how to get your political leaders to commit to health justice solutions on the campaign trail this election season, to deliver on in office? Join our public training on birddogging: https://t.co/I7L4sTfjRI #healthequity

[Right to Health Action @R2HAction]

Join our Birddogging 101 Training tomorrow July 11th at 8pm ET/5pm PT and get into action holding our political leaders accountable on the campaign trail!! It's time to hold them accountable. https://t.co/I7L4sTfjRI

[Pranav Savanur @PranavSavanur]

Read the entire report/next steps here: https://t.co/KWtNxBvqlN

[Pranav Savanur @PranavSavanur]

7) regulation and incentives for commercial wildlife trade and markets, as well as protection of tropical forests in the top 500 zoonotic spillover hotspots, adopting measures Brazil used to reduce deforestation (and roughly commensurate risk of spillover) by 70% ! (🤯)

[Pranav Savanur @PranavSavanur]

6) invest in and bring to scale proven prevention models that have demonstrated steep reductions in spillover risk and enormous payoffs in community health, poverty alleviation, and carbon conservation simply from providing jobs and healthcare for communities in tropical forests.

[Pranav Savanur @PranavSavanur]

5) Inclusive board seats should be in place from the beginning, in the design stage, rather than as ‘observers or advisors, brought in after the parameters and scope of work is already set in stone.

[Pranav Savanur @PranavSavanur]

4) include an equal number of donor countries and low/middle income ‘implementing countries’, with additional protected seats for civil society representing NGOs from the Global North and Global South, as well as board seats for Indigenous people and stigmatized populations.

[Pranav Savanur @PranavSavanur]

2) Funds should be provided to implement comprehensive national country pandemic prevention plans. 

3) Money is primarily directed towards local community groups and the public-sector, rather than multilateral agencies or development banks.