Tristan J Barber
@tristanjbarber.bsky.social
HIV/GUM doc @ICDCRoyalFree | Hon Assoc Prof @UCLGlobalHealth | Hon Sec @BritishHIVAssoc | Trustee @Positively_UK | Immediate Past Chair @EACSociety YING | he/they | 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 🏳️⚧️
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Daisy Puller’s iconic World AIDS Day Cabaret is turning FIVE — and we're throwing the biggest, boldest bash yet to mark this milestone!
We have superstars joining us for our cause and we need your support!
You can book tickets or donate on our event page:
link.outsavvy.com/wadcabaret2025
We have superstars joining us for our cause and we need your support!
You can book tickets or donate on our event page:
link.outsavvy.com/wadcabaret2025
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Daisy Puller’s iconic World AIDS Day Cabaret is turning FIVE — and we're throwing the biggest, boldest bash yet to mark this milestone!
We have superstars joining us for our cause and we need your support!
You can book tickets or donate on our event page:
link.outsavvy.com/wadcabaret2025
We have superstars joining us for our cause and we need your support!
You can book tickets or donate on our event page:
link.outsavvy.com/wadcabaret2025
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“UNAIDS was created not only to coordinate data & programmes, but also to amplify the voices of people living with & affected by #HIV...Dismantling UNAIDS without a clear plan for preserving this inclusivity risks silencing those communities & weakening global accountability" - Beatriz Grinsztejn
Proposal to sunset UNAIDS in 2026
In the face of global aid funding cuts, a UN restructure looks likely to bring UNAIDS
to an abrupt and premature end.
www.thelancet.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
“UNAIDS was created not only to coordinate data & programmes, but also to amplify the voices of people living with & affected by #HIV...Dismantling UNAIDS without a clear plan for preserving this inclusivity risks silencing those communities & weakening global accountability" - Beatriz Grinsztejn
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Register for FIS International 2025.
Come along this year to Bournemouth, 2-4 December for 3 days of invaluable education &
networking opportunities. View programme & register 👉
fitwise.eventsair.co...
#IPC #InfectionPrevention #infection #InfectiousDiseases #microbiology #IDSky
Come along this year to Bournemouth, 2-4 December for 3 days of invaluable education &
networking opportunities. View programme & register 👉
fitwise.eventsair.co...
#IPC #InfectionPrevention #infection #InfectiousDiseases #microbiology #IDSky
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Register for FIS International 2025.
Come along this year to Bournemouth, 2-4 December for 3 days of invaluable education &
networking opportunities. View programme & register 👉
fitwise.eventsair.co...
#IPC #InfectionPrevention #infection #InfectiousDiseases #microbiology #IDSky
Come along this year to Bournemouth, 2-4 December for 3 days of invaluable education &
networking opportunities. View programme & register 👉
fitwise.eventsair.co...
#IPC #InfectionPrevention #infection #InfectiousDiseases #microbiology #IDSky
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👁️ When Claudia Winkleman is away, Miss Take comes out to play. Certain that a Straightor has infiltrated the Gaythful at her lunchtime club ‘Protection Of Ostracised Friends of the School’ (POOFS), Miss Take must uncloak the Straightors before it is too late!
🎟️ www.outsavvy.com/event/31484/...
🎟️ www.outsavvy.com/event/31484/...
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
👁️ When Claudia Winkleman is away, Miss Take comes out to play. Certain that a Straightor has infiltrated the Gaythful at her lunchtime club ‘Protection Of Ostracised Friends of the School’ (POOFS), Miss Take must uncloak the Straightors before it is too late!
🎟️ www.outsavvy.com/event/31484/...
🎟️ www.outsavvy.com/event/31484/...
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Elon Musk just secured a $1 trillion payout.
This same man helped dismantle USAID - an agency that cost ~$23 billion a year and saved millions of lives. Its collapse is projected to cause 14 million preventable deaths by 2030.
That is his real legacy.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This same man helped dismantle USAID - an agency that cost ~$23 billion a year and saved millions of lives. Its collapse is projected to cause 14 million preventable deaths by 2030.
That is his real legacy.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tesla Shareholders Approve $1 Trillion Pay Package for Musk
Elon Musk responded in kind to Tesla Inc. investors approving his $1 trillion compensation package, making a series of extravagant predictions about what the company will be capable of in the years to...
www.bloomberg.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Elon Musk just secured a $1 trillion payout.
This same man helped dismantle USAID - an agency that cost ~$23 billion a year and saved millions of lives. Its collapse is projected to cause 14 million preventable deaths by 2030.
That is his real legacy.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This same man helped dismantle USAID - an agency that cost ~$23 billion a year and saved millions of lives. Its collapse is projected to cause 14 million preventable deaths by 2030.
That is his real legacy.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
my goodness there aren't words. Today in Leeds the @bashhuk.bsky.social GSM SIG conference was *amazing*. So much love, commitment, and passion in the room. Person centred care, evolution, new learnings, connections. Best of sexual health, best of #LoveGUM, best humans. Heart and brain are full ❤️
November 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
my goodness there aren't words. Today in Leeds the @bashhuk.bsky.social GSM SIG conference was *amazing*. So much love, commitment, and passion in the room. Person centred care, evolution, new learnings, connections. Best of sexual health, best of #LoveGUM, best humans. Heart and brain are full ❤️
full programme here - bhiva.org/wp-content/u...
Sessions also on Deprescribing, Top HIV papers, Top General Medicine papers, BHIVA Audit, Guidelines Update, and ART Dilemmas - don't miss it!
@bhiva.bsky.social
Sessions also on Deprescribing, Top HIV papers, Top General Medicine papers, BHIVA Audit, Guidelines Update, and ART Dilemmas - don't miss it!
@bhiva.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
full programme here - bhiva.org/wp-content/u...
Sessions also on Deprescribing, Top HIV papers, Top General Medicine papers, BHIVA Audit, Guidelines Update, and ART Dilemmas - don't miss it!
@bhiva.bsky.social
Sessions also on Deprescribing, Top HIV papers, Top General Medicine papers, BHIVA Audit, Guidelines Update, and ART Dilemmas - don't miss it!
@bhiva.bsky.social
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Go global at the BHIVA Autumn conference! 🌍
With perspectives from 3 great speakers:
- Lee Abdelfadil, UNAIDS
- Prof Maryam Shahmanesh, UCL
- Mitchell Warren, Executive Director of the AVAC.
Early Bird registration closes 14 November! 🐦 ⏰
Register here: bit.ly/BH-AUT
With perspectives from 3 great speakers:
- Lee Abdelfadil, UNAIDS
- Prof Maryam Shahmanesh, UCL
- Mitchell Warren, Executive Director of the AVAC.
Early Bird registration closes 14 November! 🐦 ⏰
Register here: bit.ly/BH-AUT
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Go global at the BHIVA Autumn conference! 🌍
With perspectives from 3 great speakers:
- Lee Abdelfadil, UNAIDS
- Prof Maryam Shahmanesh, UCL
- Mitchell Warren, Executive Director of the AVAC.
Early Bird registration closes 14 November! 🐦 ⏰
Register here: bit.ly/BH-AUT
With perspectives from 3 great speakers:
- Lee Abdelfadil, UNAIDS
- Prof Maryam Shahmanesh, UCL
- Mitchell Warren, Executive Director of the AVAC.
Early Bird registration closes 14 November! 🐦 ⏰
Register here: bit.ly/BH-AUT
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The travesty is complete.
The million dollar question is can he survive a 7 year term at the age of 92, and if he does will he run for a 9th term at 99?
Only time will tell if and when Cameroon will gain its liberation from authoritarian rule.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The million dollar question is can he survive a 7 year term at the age of 92, and if he does will he run for a 9th term at 99?
Only time will tell if and when Cameroon will gain its liberation from authoritarian rule.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Paul Biya sworn in for eighth term as Cameroon's president
Paul Biya has been in power since 1982 - the opposition says the election was rigged.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The travesty is complete.
The million dollar question is can he survive a 7 year term at the age of 92, and if he does will he run for a 9th term at 99?
Only time will tell if and when Cameroon will gain its liberation from authoritarian rule.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The million dollar question is can he survive a 7 year term at the age of 92, and if he does will he run for a 9th term at 99?
Only time will tell if and when Cameroon will gain its liberation from authoritarian rule.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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"Proportional Representation [is] no longer the subject of an abstract discussion on the margins, but an urgent and compelling proposition supported across our party."
Great piece in @renewaljournal.bsky.social by Labour MP @annadixonmp.bsky.social.
Read in full: renewal.org.uk/blog/eletc/
Great piece in @renewaljournal.bsky.social by Labour MP @annadixonmp.bsky.social.
Read in full: renewal.org.uk/blog/eletc/
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"Proportional Representation [is] no longer the subject of an abstract discussion on the margins, but an urgent and compelling proposition supported across our party."
Great piece in @renewaljournal.bsky.social by Labour MP @annadixonmp.bsky.social.
Read in full: renewal.org.uk/blog/eletc/
Great piece in @renewaljournal.bsky.social by Labour MP @annadixonmp.bsky.social.
Read in full: renewal.org.uk/blog/eletc/
amazing to see the @bashhuk.bsky.social Gender and Sexual Minorities Specialist Interest Group (GSM SIG) hosting a *sold out* 1-day stand alone conference today in Leeds, timely discussions, amazing programme - should be a fascinating day!
www.bashh.org/professional...
www.bashh.org/professional...
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
amazing to see the @bashhuk.bsky.social Gender and Sexual Minorities Specialist Interest Group (GSM SIG) hosting a *sold out* 1-day stand alone conference today in Leeds, timely discussions, amazing programme - should be a fascinating day!
www.bashh.org/professional...
www.bashh.org/professional...
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Trump bans prominent UK human rights layer and critic from entering the USA! What is Trump afraid of?
The latest #PTFweekly newsletter is out now. Read & subscribe for FREE at vist.ly/4da9j
The latest #PTFweekly newsletter is out now. Read & subscribe for FREE at vist.ly/4da9j
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Trump bans prominent UK human rights layer and critic from entering the USA! What is Trump afraid of?
The latest #PTFweekly newsletter is out now. Read & subscribe for FREE at vist.ly/4da9j
The latest #PTFweekly newsletter is out now. Read & subscribe for FREE at vist.ly/4da9j
If you have an article you think might suit HIV Research and Clinical Practice and are ready to submit in 2025, do get in touch
www.tandfonline.com/journals/yhc...
www.tandfonline.com/journals/yhc...
HIV Research & Clinical Practice
Addresses clinical and translational research in HIV/AIDS, including interplay of inflammation, ageing, and chronic comorbidities in HIV-infected individuals.
www.tandfonline.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
If you have an article you think might suit HIV Research and Clinical Practice and are ready to submit in 2025, do get in touch
www.tandfonline.com/journals/yhc...
www.tandfonline.com/journals/yhc...
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Are you free from 6 PM to 8 PM on Wednesday next week - 12 November? Then come along to Positively UK in Review, and find out how people living with HIV have been helping people living with HIV in the past year!
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Are you free from 6 PM to 8 PM on Wednesday next week - 12 November? Then come along to Positively UK in Review, and find out how people living with HIV have been helping people living with HIV in the past year!
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A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has been named as Samir Zitouni.
The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic".
The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic".
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has been named as Samir Zitouni.
The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic".
The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic".
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What the Professor said. 👇
While the mainstream discussions are depressingly about *how* best to remove and stop immigrants, it’s a revolutionary act nowadays to say that immigration is actually a positive thing and an essential component of a thriving country, so please join me in doing so!
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
What the Professor said. 👇
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Incredible to deliver the Sydenham Lecture at the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries this week! Thank you @gentlemedic.bsky.social for the invite.
November 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Incredible to deliver the Sydenham Lecture at the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries this week! Thank you @gentlemedic.bsky.social for the invite.
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The MAHA plan was ALWAYS intended to undermine vaccines.
- Rolling back access
- Seeding doubt on vaccine effectiveness
- Pushing false narratives about vaccine harms
- Crippling the infrastructure for vaccine approval and guidelines
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Rolling back access
- Seeding doubt on vaccine effectiveness
- Pushing false narratives about vaccine harms
- Crippling the infrastructure for vaccine approval and guidelines
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Threat to US vaccines as CDC staff supporting key advisory panel laid off
Critics say scientists ‘held hostage’ by RFK Jr as changes mean vaccine development and guidance in peril
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The MAHA plan was ALWAYS intended to undermine vaccines.
- Rolling back access
- Seeding doubt on vaccine effectiveness
- Pushing false narratives about vaccine harms
- Crippling the infrastructure for vaccine approval and guidelines
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Rolling back access
- Seeding doubt on vaccine effectiveness
- Pushing false narratives about vaccine harms
- Crippling the infrastructure for vaccine approval and guidelines
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This one hit a bit too close to home :)
Thankfully I am in rehab actively working on having a healthier and less abusive relationship with academia.
Thankfully I am in rehab actively working on having a healthier and less abusive relationship with academia.
Well, this is a brilliant #IDSky article that cuts close to the bone! 😬
Reframes #academia as an infection for which the causative organism may be less easy to define, but that can be just as insidious on affected individuals (clinical academics)!
#AcademicSky #MedSky 🧪 @cidjournal.bsky.social
Reframes #academia as an infection for which the causative organism may be less easy to define, but that can be just as insidious on affected individuals (clinical academics)!
#AcademicSky #MedSky 🧪 @cidjournal.bsky.social
Infected With the Academic Bug
It starts innocently. A paper you’re proud of, the thrill of seeing your name on PubMed. Everyone is genuinely happy for you; you’re a threat to no one. Bu
academic.oup.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This one hit a bit too close to home :)
Thankfully I am in rehab actively working on having a healthier and less abusive relationship with academia.
Thankfully I am in rehab actively working on having a healthier and less abusive relationship with academia.
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BHIVA would like to remind eligible groups to come forward for #mpox vaccination - as UKHSA becomes aware of small numbers of locally-acquired cases of clade Ib mpox in the USA, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal. 💉 🦠
More here: www.gov.uk/government/n...
More here: www.gov.uk/government/n...
October 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
BHIVA would like to remind eligible groups to come forward for #mpox vaccination - as UKHSA becomes aware of small numbers of locally-acquired cases of clade Ib mpox in the USA, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal. 💉 🦠
More here: www.gov.uk/government/n...
More here: www.gov.uk/government/n...
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"South Africa has become the first African country... to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, #lenacapavir" via @news24southafrica.bsky.social
SA becomes first African country to register twice-a-year anti-HIV jab... at record speed | News24
South Africa has become the first African country – and our medicines regulator the third worldwide – to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN), that could bring an en...
www.news24.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"South Africa has become the first African country... to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, #lenacapavir" via @news24southafrica.bsky.social
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Finally read the paper and it's worth the buzz.
mRNA vaccines saved 20 million lives in a global pandemic and the technology is opening up new avenues for the treatment of deadly cancers. This is really one of the most impactful scientific developments of our time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
mRNA vaccines saved 20 million lives in a global pandemic and the technology is opening up new avenues for the treatment of deadly cancers. This is really one of the most impactful scientific developments of our time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade - Nature
mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 also sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint inhibitors.
www.nature.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Finally read the paper and it's worth the buzz.
mRNA vaccines saved 20 million lives in a global pandemic and the technology is opening up new avenues for the treatment of deadly cancers. This is really one of the most impactful scientific developments of our time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
mRNA vaccines saved 20 million lives in a global pandemic and the technology is opening up new avenues for the treatment of deadly cancers. This is really one of the most impactful scientific developments of our time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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BASHH President, Professor Matt Phillips, gave evidence to the @commonshealth.bsky.social today.
He emphasised the importance of increased service funding and prioritisation, and placing experts at the heart of decision-making to address current challenges and meet future needs ➡️ bit.ly/3L1U4XG
He emphasised the importance of increased service funding and prioritisation, and placing experts at the heart of decision-making to address current challenges and meet future needs ➡️ bit.ly/3L1U4XG
October 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
BASHH President, Professor Matt Phillips, gave evidence to the @commonshealth.bsky.social today.
He emphasised the importance of increased service funding and prioritisation, and placing experts at the heart of decision-making to address current challenges and meet future needs ➡️ bit.ly/3L1U4XG
He emphasised the importance of increased service funding and prioritisation, and placing experts at the heart of decision-making to address current challenges and meet future needs ➡️ bit.ly/3L1U4XG
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Last year, #Lesotho reached the @unaids.org 95–95–95 targets. Today, US aid cuts are forcing clinics to close and threatening years of progress.
This powerful @apnews.com story is a sobering reminder of how fragile global health gains can be.
This powerful @apnews.com story is a sobering reminder of how fragile global health gains can be.
In Lesotho, US aid cuts leave people living with HIV in limbo
Lesotho, once with the world’s second-highest HIV rate, faces a health crisis as U.S. aid cuts dismantle vital HIV treatment programs, leaving patients without care.
apnews.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Last year, #Lesotho reached the @unaids.org 95–95–95 targets. Today, US aid cuts are forcing clinics to close and threatening years of progress.
This powerful @apnews.com story is a sobering reminder of how fragile global health gains can be.
This powerful @apnews.com story is a sobering reminder of how fragile global health gains can be.
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“One of them was Derek’s in the February but that was what our life was like then, and it bears repeating because I know there’s a younger generation that has somehow missed out on knowing enough about it.” – Tilda Swinton #HIV #AIDS #DerekJarman www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/21/t...
Tilda Swinton went to '43 funerals’ in one year during AIDS crisis
Tilda Swinton has recalled going to "43 funerals" in one year at the height of the Aids crisis, including one for her friend, Derek Jarman.
www.thepinknews.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
“One of them was Derek’s in the February but that was what our life was like then, and it bears repeating because I know there’s a younger generation that has somehow missed out on knowing enough about it.” – Tilda Swinton #HIV #AIDS #DerekJarman www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/21/t...