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🇩🇪 Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Berlin in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, with demonstrators calling for an end to the Israel-Hamas war, shouting slogans like “free, free Palestine,” and calling for an end to the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
🪖 The Trump administration is deploying 200 National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, where last week, the city threatened to evict Immigration and Customs Enforcement from a detention facility for violating a land-use permit to detain people overnight.
Global health
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Starting in 2027, a groundbreaking preventative drug for HIV will be rolled out for $40 a year in over 100 countries
Global health agencies announced that generic versions of the groundbreaking, injectable HIV-prevention drug lenacapavir would be available for around $40 a year in more than 100 low- and middle-income countries starting in 2027.
The twice-yearly injection was shown to reduce the risk of HIV transmission by more than 99.9% — a medical breakthrough for bringing better, more effective preventative treatment to people around the world.
Currently, lenacapavir costs around $28,000 a year in the United States. The company behind it signed licensing agreements with six generic drugmakers to help bring it to poorer countries, where treatment is needed by more people, but is also less accessible
Why is this good news? This move is being hailed as a “game-changer” in the fight against the AIDS epidemic — with one expert saying that, with the generic product, “we can end HIV.”
A Jamaican student just received a major award for his invention that’s revolutionizing disinfection technology
Rayvon Stewart was the first in his family to go to college. There, he discovered his love of inventing, but it wasn’t until he was 23 and volunteering at a hospital that he realized he could solve a real problem with his designs.
It was this time in healthcare facilities that led him to invent a door handle that could disinfect itself after every touch. Xermosol is an ultraviolet self-sanitizing door handle, which Stewart says can kill 99.9% of pathogens, but is safe for people and animals.
The smart door handle has received over $200,000 in initial investments and has been hailed as a game changer for hospitals, hotels, and other businesses to control the spread of disease — and it won Jamaica’s Prime Minister’s National Youth Award.
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