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John White
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enthusiastic GUM dr chasing STIs & HIV in Derry, Coleraine, Donegal & Sligo. Also MD @Preventx,💍@drmelissaperry.bsky, dad of 2❤️👧, mancave🎸, 🇦🇺, views my own, peace & love🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Need to find out how to watch this movie 👍🏼 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Secret histories of the HIV epidemic
How do stigma, shame, and silence continue to shape the way a disease is experienced and remembered, even long after the acute phase of an epidemic has passed? This is the question at the heart of Car...
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August 11, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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aidsmap.bsky.social
Alternative first-line HIV regimen limits excess weight gain
@iasociety.bsky.social @aidsconference.bsky.social #AIDS2026
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Alternative first-line HIV regimen limits excess weight gain
Starting treatment with a regimen containing doravirine and tenofovir disoproxil (TDF) resulted in less weight gain than starting treatment with a regimen containing dolutegravir and tenofovir alafena...
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August 4, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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thelovetankcic.bsky.social
We're recruiting two London, UK based Programme Coordinators: Health Equity.

Closing date: 17 August 2026.

www.thelovetank.info/vacancies/pc...
Work with us - PCHER — The Love Tank CIC
www.thelovetank.info
July 15, 2026 at 6:55 AM
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thelovetankcic.bsky.social
We're recruiting two London, UK based Programme Coordinators: Health Equity.

Closing date: 17 August 2026.

www.thelovetank.info/vacancies/pche
Work with us - PCHE — The Love Tank CIC
www.thelovetank.info
July 15, 2026 at 6:52 AM
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bashhuk.bsky.social
This year, BASHH President Dr Cara Saxon joined an HSJ roundtable on improving women’s sexual and vaginal health, highlighting the importance of accessible diagnostics and ongoing clinician education.

📰 View the published report from HSJ here: bit.ly/3PvHna4
June 6, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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thelovetankcic.bsky.social
Which sexual health vaccines can I get on the NHS right now?

Find out from All In - a brand new programme from The Love Tank.

@bashhuk.bsky.social @bhiva.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social @nhsenglandldn.bsky.social

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ALL IN: Which sexual health vaccines can I get on the NHS right now? — QueerHealth
www.queerhealth.info
May 20, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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thelovetankcic.bsky.social
The Love Tank's founding programme - PrEPster - re-launches one of our original info sources: Know About HIV PrEP.

The newest edition includes info on injectable PrEP, new ways to start and stop PrEP, and info on new UK guidance.

Download and view below.

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Keeping on top of HIV PrEP changes: new information resources launched — The Love Tank CIC
The Love Tank’s founding programme - PrEPster - re-launches one of its original information sources ‘Know About HIV PrEP’ to bring PrEP information right up-to-date.
www.thelovetank.info
May 18, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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gilmorejnurse.bsky.social
Our latest research on clinician awareness, attitudes, and prescribing practices relating to DoxyPEP in Ireland has been published in the International Journal of STD & AIDS.

Grateful to collaborate with an excellent team of colleagues on this work.

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April 19, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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Rooted & Rising is on Mon 30 March. Co-host Dr Vanessa Apea & I are joined by awesome @melissasigodo.bsky.social & @msforde.bsky.social to discuss Black women’s health & ways to tackle the inequities we face. Watch live 5pm on @phoenixhealthm.bsky.social YouTube channel youtube.com/@phoenixheal...
March 27, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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montymoncrieff.bsky.social
New article on chemsex in The Face magazine. I got to contribute to this along with some of the incredible colleagues and partners we work with.
Life after chemsex
In the UK, substance-fuelled orgies are thriving and ambulances are dispatched daily for GHB and meth overdoses. A small contingent of frontliners are…
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March 20, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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🤨Comparative Effectiveness of 3 Benzathine Penicillin G-Based Regimens in PWH With Early Syphilis #CROI2026

credits @ hivvirology
February 26, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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gerardgallagher.bsky.social Gerard Gallagher @gerardgallagher.bsky.social · Feb 25
🗣️ “I have been working on this beautiful bacteria for 20 years and I will not give up hope.” - Kate L. Seib, PhD

🗣️ “I think we have to try to design a better vaccine.” - Jean-Michel Molina, MD, PhD

Bummer results from #CROI2026 👇🏻

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Hope for gonorrhea vaccine wanes after failed trial
DENVER — In 2017, researchers in New Zealand published the first evidence that a vaccine might be able to prevent gonorrhea, a wily STI that has confounded scientists with it ability to dodge just abo...
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February 26, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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drmichaelmarks.bsky.social
Now with a (hopefully!) functioning website: The International Syphilis Symposium Webinar Series.

Thanks to Kelly Hawley @uconn.bsky.social @nicolelieberman.bsky.social & Lisa Frigati @suhealthsci.bsky.social for helping pull this together.

First webinar 26th March - sign up via website.
ISS Webinar Series — International Syphilis Symposium
A quarterly webinar series bringing together clinicians, academics, and public health organisations focused on global syphilis control.
internationalsyphilissymposium.com
February 25, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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hivma.bsky.social
In a recent study published in CID, authors evaluated the projected impact of ending CDC funding for HIV testing on Oct. 1, 2025, across 18 states, estimating that new HIV infections would increase by 10% by 2030.

Read: https://bit.ly/4trboGZ
The Potential Effect of Ending CDC Funding for HIV Tests: A Modeling Study in 18 States
A complete cessation of CDC-funded HIV testing could cause a 10% increase in infections by 2030 across 18 U.S. states, with this impact disproportionately
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February 18, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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doitldn.bsky.social
We’re excited to announce *Skin Like Mine* – a new HIV prevention programme for Black Londoners, delivered by
@onevoicenetwork.bsky.social between January and April 2026, and funded by the London HIV Prevention Programme.

#BlackLondoners #HIVprevention
Against a two-tone red background are a Black woman's arm and hand, adorned with nail art and rings. She holds a vial for an HIV test between a finger and thumb. Overlayed with her hand is text reading: Skin Like Mine: HIV Prevention for London's Black Communities
January 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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nicolamlow.bsky.social
🧪 🦠 #Mpox virus “acquired during pregnancy should be regarded as a congenital pathogen” particularly in the first trimester

MBOTE-SK project followed 89 pregnant women in DR Congo
@labgenpath.bsky.social @ispm.unibe.ch @itmantwerp.bsky.social

🧵 1/2

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Maternal and neonatal outcomes after infection with monkeypox virus clade I during pregnancy in DR Congo: a pooled, prospective cohort study
Monkeypox virus (MPXV) has been linked to vertical transmission, but systematic data are scarce. We aimed to describe the sociodemographic, clinical, …
www.sciencedirect.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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sarah1alexander.bsky.social
📣 UKHSA survey on gonorrhoea testing practices in England

UKHSA is inviting sexual health services & diagnostic labs to take part in a national survey on current gonorrhoea testing practices across England.

⏱️ 15 minutes
🗓️ Deadline: 14 Jan 2026
🔗 Take part here: surveys.ukhsa.gov.uk/s/sg01bo
Starting survey...
surveys.ukhsa.gov.uk
December 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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thelovetankcic.bsky.social
Our recent research shows queer people want more accessible harm reduction information about club drugs. This new work in partnership with Antidote at @londonfriend.bsky.social is a step towards implementing the findings of our community-based research.

www.thelovetank.info/news/sdc4all
New harm reduction materials for queer clubbers launched — The Love Tank CIC
New harm reduction information on five of the most commonly used club drugs has been launched in a partnership between The Love Tank and Antidote at London Friend .
www.thelovetank.info
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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rosemaryparkinson.bsky.social
Honoured to share my research for NHS Domestic Abuse Awareness Day in a podcast: Understanding Subtle Abuse: A Hidden Epidemic.
🎧 lnkd.in/eyzSBGJh
Subtle abuse is hidden, damaging, and too often missed. Survivors deserve better recognition + support. Please share.
#16Days #NHSDAAD #SubtleAbuse
December 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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drmichaelmarks.bsky.social
UK Sexual Health Clinicians - can you spare a few minutes to contribute to a survey led by colleagues in Australia on the role of AI in improving diagnosis of anogenital skin conditions?

Survey is here: go.unimelb.edu.au/b3a2

@drlaurajwaters.bsky.social @manikkohli.bsky.social
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December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Australian survey reports that only 4% of gay and bisexual men prefer CAB-LA #PrEP to other options.

Full list of preferences here: i-base.info/htb/52740

It may be more popular in other populations though, especially for people who don’t want to keep pills at home.

#HIV #HIVprevention
Colourful i-Base graphic. The main text reads: Gay men prefer all other PrEP options over 2-monthly injections. At the top is i-Base’s website address: I hyphen base dot info. At the bottom it says, subscribe by email. A smaller, tilted square graphic on the right, reads: HTB news. 2025. HIV treatment, prevention, access, and more. The colours used in the image are purple, three shades of blue, khaki green, dark orange, orange, teal, mustard, red, and white.
December 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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thelovetankcic.bsky.social
Food for thought: hosting HIV PrEP research dinners.

"Hosting dinners like this for Black queer men is a valuable way of including perspectives & creating spaces for us to freely talk about sexual health." @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social @benvyle.bsky.social

www.thelovetank.info/news/bqmdin
Food for thought: The Love Tank hosts HIV PrEP research dinners — The Love Tank CIC
The Love Tank  is hosting community-based dinners to better understand the HIV PrEP needs of Black queer men, in a research collaboration with the  University of Durham .
www.thelovetank.info
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Long-term consequences of monkeypox virus infection or modified vaccinia virus Ankara vaccination in Belgium (MPX-COHORT and POQS-FU-PLUS): a 24-month prospective and retrospective cohort study - Lancet ID www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Targeted revaccination campaigns might be needed 😳
Long-term consequences of monkeypox virus infection or modified vaccinia virus Ankara vaccination in Belgium (MPX-COHORT and POQS-FU-PLUS): a 24-month prospective and retrospective cohort study
Individuals previously infected with MPXV show strong and durable immunological memory lasting up to 2 years after infection, in contrast to the less robust and shorter-lived response observed after M...
www.thelancet.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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drmichaelmarks.bsky.social
Want to do a PhD on syphilis diagnostics? In collaboration with @uclglobalhealth.bsky.social & @ukhsa.bsky.social we have a funded studentship available via the Health Protection Research Unit on Blood Borne & Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Deadline for applications: Friday 5th December 2025.
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Finally published this article and it's more important now than ever to #SaveHIVFunding #HIVSky
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Silence = Death Is Real Now More Than Ever, but Words Aren’t Enough—Action Is Needed!
To the editor—Thanks to Meyerowitz and Schwartz [1] for their viewpoint article, which highlights all the jarring changes that President Trump and his admi
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November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM