The White House is lit up rainbow tonight in celebration of President Biden signing the Respect for Marriage Act.

Ten years ago, President Biden announced his support for marriage equality – becoming the highest-ranking U.S. government official to do so.

Today, President Biden signed historic legislation to protect marriage for same-sex and interracial couples.

On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we pause and remember all those killed by transphobia. The U.S. remains committed to end violence on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and sex characteristics. Everyone should be able to live as their true self.

Please take the opportunity to review & comment on our draft PEPFAR Five-Year Strategy: Fulfilling America’s Promise to End the HIV/AIDS Pandemic by 2030. It's now live on our website: bit.ly/3DRF1s3

Together we can end the HIV/AIDS pandemic as a global health threat!

Pandemic preparedness and response: exploring the role of universal health coverage within the global health security architecture thelancet.com/journals/langl… by Arush Lal et al.

Some reflections on reimagining human rights in global health and what will it take? with ⁦Pascale⁩ ⁦Sofia Gruskin⁩ in ⁦BMJ Global Health⁩ ⁦UNU International Institute for Global Health⁩ ⁦USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health⁩ #globalhealth #humanrights gh.bmj.com/content/7/8/e0…

BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on ScienceInsider.

'In a large, real-world population, exposure to young children [0-5 years] was strongly associated with less severe COVID-19 illness, after balancing known COVID-19 risk factors.' PNASNews
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Matthew Solomon KPNorthernCal Kaiser Permanente Research NorCal

Proud to work for HHS.gov:
reproductiverights.gov

Restricting access doesn’t prevent people from seeking abortions, it simply makes it more deadly

More restrictions lead to even more unsafe abortions … and more maternal deaths.

Read UNFPA’s statement on the global implications:

#ReproductiveRightsAreHumanRights

'To the LGBTQI+ community, my administration sees you. We stand with you. And we will continue to defend human rights and dignity, at home and around the world. ' - POTUS on #IDAHOBIT2022

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'Emergency contraception' (EC) includes
-progestin-only pills (incl what's sold as 'Plan B')
-ulipristal acetate (incl what's sold as 'Ella')
-Yuzpe regimen (using OCPs as EC)
-IUD as EC

'Morning-after pill'=a misnomer.

EC is not same as 'abortion pill' & is not abortifacient.

Wow that road from women shouldn’t have abortions to women shouldn’t be educated was shorter than I even expected.

Yesterday in Development Impact: I summarize a striking paper on the impacts of a phone-based mental health intervention for women in rural Bangladesh: Mental health improves, but so does food security and income generating activity. blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Speaking as an IPCC Lead Author, these are some of the most important new messages from the #climate report out today: (🧵)

1. For the first time we’re seeing evidence of real, sustained decreases in greenhouse gas emissions from some countries.

But take a breath because…

NEW FINDING: Cash support for low-income families changes their infants' brain activity. The first study from our #BabysFirstYears randomized control trial of poverty reduction is out, in @PNASnews. pnas.org/content/119/5/…
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My research w/ Rutgers SPH Leslie Kantor, PhD on trends in #sexeducation published today in JAH. Sadly, we find that young people today are less likely to receive sex education on key topics than they were 25 years ago. doi.org/10.1016/j.jado…

Shouldn't this Djokovic news be as big a scandal as Serena not smiling enough during her press conferences or Naomi declining to do press interviews during a tournament? 🤔