Sivananthi Senthe Thanenthiran

Executive Director @ARROW_Women. I am passionate about sexual and reproductive health and rights. The New Normal needs to be feminist!

[CodeBlue @codebluenews]

Lessons From The Past, Vaccines For The Future: A Malaysian Story Of Hope

https://t.co/bAWgiEYbzN

[Melinda French Gates @melindagates]

I am relieved that mifepristone will remain—at least for now—available for women and their care providers to rely on. But a provider’s ability to prescribe safe, effective medication and a woman’s right to make decisions over her body and future should not be up for debate, now or ever.

https://t.co/Ez4NLxjD5s

[🦢 @damnidc__]

Well, when a child is conceived, the DNA split is 50/50 from both parents. Except for one small detail: mitochondrial DNA. It’s passed down only through the mother and never through sperm.
Which means something interesting: all living humans can trace their mitochondrial line back to one woman, not one man.
And every daughter born continues passing that same line forward.
Happy Mother’s day

[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

C Joseph Vijay takes oath as the next Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

Makes him the first Christian CM of the state.

Massive W for the Idea of Secular India 🇮🇳

Sanghis won’t be able to sleep tonight 🤣

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

RFK Jr. has called the HPV vaccine “the most dangerous vaccine ever invented.”

A staggering new review covering 274 studies found the opposite (again).

HPV vaccines, without a doubt, remain one of the greatest cancer prevention tools in modern medicine.

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

A la gente de Tenerife,

Mi nombre es Tedros, y ejerzo como Director General de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, el organismo de las Naciones Unidas responsable de la salud pública mundial. No es habitual que escriba directamente a la gente de una sola comunidad, pero hoy siento que no solo es apropiado, sino necesario.

Quiero hablarles directamente, no a través de comunicados de prensa ni informes técnicos, sino de ser humano a ser humano, porque se lo merecen.

Sé que están preocupados. Sé que cuando escuchan la palabra “brote o epidemia” y ven un barco acercarse a sus costas, afloran recuerdos que ninguno de nosotros ha logrado superar del todo. El dolor de 2020 sigue siendo real, y no lo minimizo ni por un momento.

Pero necesito que me escuchen con claridad: esto no es otro COVID-19. El riesgo actual para la salud pública derivado del #hantavirus sigue siendo bajo. Mis colegas y yo lo hemos afirmado sin ambigüedades, y lo repito ahora. El virus a bordo del MV Hondius es la cepa Andes del hantavirus. Es grave. Tres personas han perdido la vida, y nuestro corazón está con sus familias. El riesgo para ustedes, en su vida cotidiana en Tenerife, es bajo. Esta es la evaluación de la OMS, y no la hacemos a la ligera.

En este momento, no hay pasajeros con síntomas a bordo. Un experto de la OMS está en ese barco y los suministros médicos están disponibles. Las autoridades españolas han preparado un plan cuidadoso y detallado: los pasajeros serán trasladados a tierra en el puerto industrial de Granadilla, lejos de las zonas residenciales, en vehículos sellados y custodiados, a través de un corredor completamente acordonado, y repatriados directamente a sus países de origen. Ustedes no tendrán contacto con ellos y sus familias tampoco. También quiero decirles algo más, algo que va más allá de la ciencia.

Agradecí personalmente al Presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, la decisión de España de acoger este barco. Lo califiqué de acto de solidaridad y deber moral. Porque eso es exactamente lo que es. Quiero que sepan que la solicitud de la OMS a España no fue arbitraria. Se realizó en pleno cumplimiento del Reglamento Sanitario Internacional, el marco jurídicamente vinculante que define los derechos y obligaciones de los países y de la OMS cuando responden a eventos de salud pública de importancia internacional. Según esas normas, debe identificarse el puerto más cercano con capacidad médica suficiente para garantizar la seguridad y la dignidad de quienes están a bordo. Tenerife cumplió ese criterio y España lo honró. Casi 150 personas de 23 países llevan semanas en el mar, algunas de luto, todas asustadas, todas deseando regresar a casa. Tenerife ha sido elegida porque tiene la capacidad médica, la infraestructura y sé que la humanidad necesaria para ayudarles a llegar a un lugar seguro.

Y porque lo creo profundamente, estaré allí en persona. Tengo la intención de viajar a Tenerife para observar esta operación de primera mano, para estar junto a los trabajadores sanitarios, el personal portuario y los funcionarios que la están llevando a cabo, y para rendir mi homenaje personal a una isla que ha respondido a una situación difícil con dignidad, solidaridad y compasión. Su humanidad merece ser presenciada, no solo reconocida desde la distancia.

Como he dicho muchas veces: los virus no entienden de política ni respetan fronteras. La mejor inmunidad que tenemos es la solidaridad.

Tenerife está demostrando esa solidaridad hoy. El capitán del barco, Jan Dobrogowski, la tripulación y la empresa que opera el buque han mostrado una colaboración ejemplar en este momento tan difícil. En nombre de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, y en nombre de esos pasajeros y de sus familias en todo el mundo, agradezco al pueblo de Tenerife y a todas las demás personas involucradas.

Por favor, cuídense ustedes y cuídense los unos a los otros. Confíen en los preparativos que se han llevado a cabo. Y sepan que la OMS está con ustedes, y con cada persona en ese barco, en cada paso del camino.

Con respeto, cariño y gratitud,
Tedros

[ً @wynrosei]

No woman is born of a man's rib. Every man is born of a woman's womb. patriarchy’s oldest lies is crowning the father as the lifegiver.

[Family Frontiers #sayaJUGAanakMalaysia @FamilyFrontiers]

♀️💐Happy Mother's Day from Family Frontiers! 💞 Today we celebrate all the mothers who have supported us in our journey in campaigning for the wellbeing of Malaysian binational families! 🧑‍🧑‍🧒

[Melinda French Gates @melindagates]

Mifepristone is a safe, essential medicine that so many women depend on in some of the hardest moments of their lives. When access to this care is taken away, the need doesn’t vanish. It just becomes harder to meet—and far more dangerous.

Last year, while visiting Louisiana to understand how the shifting landscape is affecting our communities, I heard heartbreaking stories from mothers denied treatment during grave crises in their pregnancies and doctors forced to delay care when every minute counts.

Friday’s ruling is a blow to families across the country, who suffer when women are stripped of the ability to make decisions about their own health and futures.

Everyone deserves health care that’s guided by science, not politics.

https://t.co/Wd420CgZKN

[Bo Wang @BoWang87]

Pancreatic cancer has one of the most suppressive tumor microenvironments in oncology.

But two pancreatic cancer results dropped today. Both matter.

1. BioNTech mRNA neoantigen vaccine: nearly all responders still alive at 6 years. 98% of induced T cells were de novo — the immune system learned to see a cancer it had always been blind to.

2. Daraxonrasib: 47% ORR, 92% disease control as first-line monotherapy. KRAS G12D, undruggable for 40 years, finally has a drug.

Different mechanisms. Same disease. Both working.

<13% of patients survive 5 years. That number is about to change.

great day for science! 🔥

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

ZERO cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in women under age 25 in Australia 🇦🇺

None . Nada . Zip.

For the first time since records began!

How did this happen?

One word

VACCINES!!!!!

[Helter Skelter @Roshinee_M]

so, this random girl (actually its me) launched a rare Parliamentary Petition to discipline truant Malaysian MPs, and now she needs 500+ physical signatures to bring it to the Malaysian Parliament by June! 🤯

here is everything you need to know 🧵

[Bella Morris @Belorris]

Mothers in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran love their children as much as you love yours.

[Global UPDATES @GlobalUpdates24]

🚨BREAKING –

Mexico's President has decided to roll out Universal Healthcare for all Mexicans

Around 130 million citizens will begin to enjoy free healthcare from next year

[Mega-Politics @_MegaPolitics]

Breaking:

Norway says Israel must be isolated globally to punish it for creating unrest and chaos in the world

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Forza Europeans!
Only 200,000 signatures needed to push EU institutions to suspend the indecent partnership agreement with Apartheid Israel. Bcs it is not OK to make business with a State that commits intl crimes on a daily basis.
Power to the People.
Together #weR1

[Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs @SweMFA]

Sweden condemns the recent Israeli decision to establish over 30 new settlements in the West Bank. The settlements are a flagrant violation of international law and undermine the ongoing efforts for peace and stability in the region. We call on the Government of Israel to reverse them immediately and to respect its international obligations.
https://t.co/CMtUBq5cvJ

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

🇪🇸 BREAKING: Spanish PM Pedro calls for the IMMEDIATE ARREST of Netanyahu

He said: "Netanyahu launched the worst possible unjustified attack against Lebanon. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. He is a criminal that must be arrested immediately.”

He also adds that the EU will suspend its Association Agreement with Israel very soon.

This is what true leadership looks like.

[CodeBlue @codebluenews]

In a next level scheme at Tunku Azizah Hospital (HTA) in KL, a 28-year-old N1 admin assistant (pembantu tadbir or PT) allegedly scammed at least 187 housemen in the paediatric department of the government hospital out of more than RM47,000 over the past two and a half years from Sept 2023 to March 2026.

The female junior PT's alleged con was two-pronged: collecting an RM900 "refund" by falsely claiming that the government "overpaid" emoluments and a “fee” of RM40 to RM45 for a compulsory course, the neonatal resuscitation programme (NRP), that was actually free of charge.

Payments by 187 known victims – all doctors during housemanship postings to HTA’s paediatric department – were either banked into the admin asssistant's personal account or physically paid to her in cash, totalling RM47,210 over the past 30 months.

The 187 people paid the PT either RM45 or RM40 each, except one who paid RM120, under the NRP scam, totalling RM8,210. Forty-two of them were additionally hoodwinked by the salary scam, with 40 housemen getting cheated of RM900 each, one of RM1,200, and another of RM1,800, totalling RM39,000.

Based on CodeBlue’s interviews with a dozen victims this week, most, if not all, of the deceptions and financial transactions in the admin assistant’s alleged criminal fraud occurred in their workplace at HTA.

The junior doctors said they didn’t think much about making payment to the PT’s personal account at the time, citing a heavy clinical work burden and trust in “Kak S*****”, whom they relied heavily on for human resource responsibilities.

“She showed me the QR code and said it was her personal account. I never hesitated and I never doubted because I never thought of being scammed by her since she’s the admin. Whatever she said, I fully trusted her. So I straight away banked it to her," a houseman told CodeBlue.

RM900 Salary Scam: Forged Document

The PT allegedly used a forged document to convince house officers to pay her a "refund" of RM900, supposedly because the government "overpaid" their RM300 monthly Imbuhan Tetap Khidmat Awam allowance.

Her alleged modus operandi (MO) involved setting up one-on-one meetings in her office on Level 6 of HTA with her victims, during which she falsely claimed to junior doctors that the government had “overpaid” their emolument for the first three months of housemanship by RM900. She gave them a form to sign.

The fake document titled “Bayaran Balik Emolumen Terlebih Bayar PPS”, which had the doctor's name and IC number, was actually a forgery of a genuine Gantian Cuti Rehat document.

The PT gave housemen two options to pay the RM900 "refund": by cash in an envelope that they could submit to Unit Gaji themselves or via QR code to her personal account. Her victims all chose to directly bank in the money to her.

RM45 NRP Scam: Housemen Batches on Orientation Day

If the admin assistant's MO for her alleged RM900 salary scam was individual shakedowns during personal meetings in her office, her alleged RM45 NRP hustle defrauded entire groups of house officers during orientation at the MOH hospital.

Being the sole PT in charge of trainee doctors in HTA’s paediatrics department, she conducted briefings alone for housemen on the first day of their posting to the department, without anyone else present in the room.

Housemen were told varying accounts of the RM45 payment for the compulsory NRP course: a fee, or for books or certification, but these were actually free of charge.

Based on CodeBlue’s interviews, the admin assistant wouldn’t let the trainee doctors leave the room until everyone paid her RM45 there and then, either via QR code to her personal account or cash.

End of 30-Month Scam

Two of the PT's victims ended her 30-month scam last March 27, after the house officers went to Unit Gaji and the human resource department and discovered that the RM900 form was a fake document.

At least 13 police reports have been filed.

CodeBlue understands that the admin assistant, who is reportedly a contract staff under the government's MyStep programme, has since been terminated.

When contacted, the PT told CodeBlue that she was “cooperating” to resolve the “financial issues”, adding that she hoped “this issue can be resolved privately and not published in an article”.

In a WhatsApp message to a houseman, the 28-year-old woman claimed that this was the "first time I did something like this" and that her family was in debt with loan sharks.

HTA and MOH Putrajaya declined comment, citing the ongoing police investigation.

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