Global health reporter, The New York Times. Former correspondent in South Asia, Africa, Latin America and the MidEast. Author, 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa; Promised the Moon. Baker. Canoe tripper. Disease nerd. Lover of a fat novel and Earl Grey tea.
Stephanie Nolen
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Meticulous piece by @stephanienolen.bsky.social tracking the human impact of US aid cuts to HIV in Zambia
No tracing means contacts aren't tested
No health workers mean baby is left untreated, meds aren't delivered, and appointment reminders aren't sent
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...
Surprise not-everything-is-terrible news: While there is justifiable fear and frustration with the current Ebola response in East Africa, there are also some signs the world has learned some things. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/w...
Another important read by @stephanienolen.bsky.social.
🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/h...
And as our ED said last week at #WHA79, "We're introducing [lenacapavir] on what should have been a foundation of stone, but instead we're introducing it on a foundation of sand.” www.devex.com/news/the-pro...
A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!
“‘That msg was there: We need pan-species Ebola tests—bc they faced these same probs in the last Bundibugyo outbreak’…But the private sector sees little incentive to invest in R&D for a diagnostic tool that will be used almost exclusively in the world’s poorest places”🛟🧪
@stephanienolen.bsky.social
Incredibly proud of my @bloomberg.com colleagues, who won a Pulitzer today for illustrated reporting for the graphic novel version of an incredible, harrowing story about “digital arrest” scams in India. Gift link to the graphic novel, will thread the feature below: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
HIV drove Zambia's life expectancy down to 37. A program backed by the US helped raise it up to 67, as hundreds of lives were saved. Now cuts to the US HIV program are causing a jump in AIDS deaths, as @stephanienolen.bsky.social reports. Gift link: nyti.ms/41V2Uvq
University Health Network recruits senior NIH investigator, more than 70 global scientists, as part of campaign to attract 100 early- to mid-career scientists from other countries, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com @uhn.ca
The World Has Learned From the Last Ebola Outbreak, but Gaps Remain. The vaccine development process and coordination between health organizations have improved since a devastating 2014-2016 outbreak, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/w... via @nytimes.com
For @codastory.com, Isobel Cockerell typed two words into the search function of the Epstein files. What she found was a tangled skein of sex and eugenics stretching across tech and academia. As dark as it all has been, this is a new shade of bleak.
Stephanie Nolen
Lauren Dobson-Hughes
AVAC
David Gura
No texting. No visitors. No escape. She was caught in India’s new digital nightmare.
Health workers “have been hampered by a chronic lack of investment in high-quality tests for clinicians facing pathogens that surface in the most marginalized places…. “We were looking for the Zaire strain while it was the Bundibugyo species that was wreaking havoc,” said Dr. Mamadou Kaba Barry”
The Epstein files reveal beliefs about race, eugenics, and engineering humans that run to the heart of Silicon Valley.
