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Hello, and welcome back to The Kable. It's a light but nevertheless heavy Kable today - the weight of 8 billion people on Earth is bearing down on all of us. And here is how it will pan out over the next few decades. Good news: population growth is slowing down.

What is weighing down Twitter? The decision to allow verification for anyone with $8 has resulted in Eli Lilly pulling millions in advertising from Twitter. Novo Nordisk and GSK have also paused their ad spends.

In India, the health ministry plans to set up 100 new medical colleges over the next five years.

At the UNGA summit last month, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria aimed to reach its pledge replenishment target of $18 billion but fell short after several rich countries, including the UK and Italy, didn't pledge anything. The UK has now pledged $1 billion, well below the $1.8 billion requested.