@agneslibois.bsky.social
ID/HIV physician@chu saint-pierre, Brussels.
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Time flies—only 6 months left until #EACS2025 in Paris.
Join experts to discuss the latest in HIV science, innovation, and collaboration.
Don’t miss out—secure your spot today! loom.ly/larUmWc
Join experts to discuss the latest in HIV science, innovation, and collaboration.
Don’t miss out—secure your spot today! loom.ly/larUmWc
April 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Time flies—only 6 months left until #EACS2025 in Paris.
Join experts to discuss the latest in HIV science, innovation, and collaboration.
Don’t miss out—secure your spot today! loom.ly/larUmWc
Join experts to discuss the latest in HIV science, innovation, and collaboration.
Don’t miss out—secure your spot today! loom.ly/larUmWc
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Anyone who attended this year's #CROI2025 will tell you it was a very strange experience given the current political climate. Still, plenty of interesting studies -- here's a Really Rapid Review of selected highlights. #IDSky #HIVSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
Really Rapid Review: CROI 2025 San Francisco
Wow, that was an interesting conference — in ways both good and bad. The good part was the content, as the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) is our leading HIV research co...
blogs.jwatch.org
March 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Anyone who attended this year's #CROI2025 will tell you it was a very strange experience given the current political climate. Still, plenty of interesting studies -- here's a Really Rapid Review of selected highlights. #IDSky #HIVSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
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The list of words the Trump administration has banned from research grants is even longer than the lists I’ve seen online. Here are screenshots of the words confirmed by the NYTimes and listed in this article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The list of words the Trump administration has banned from research grants is even longer than the lists I’ve seen online. Here are screenshots of the words confirmed by the NYTimes and listed in this article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Fascinating poster at #CROI2025 (654) looking at “True Trough” levels of CAB RPV showing “low levels of CAB +/or RPV are associated with higher odds for a detectable HIV-1 RNA.
QU would you measure CAB levels in a patient with low level viraemia?
#IDSky #HIVSky #PKsky
@paulsaxmd.bsky.social
QU would you measure CAB levels in a patient with low level viraemia?
#IDSky #HIVSky #PKsky
@paulsaxmd.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Fascinating poster at #CROI2025 (654) looking at “True Trough” levels of CAB RPV showing “low levels of CAB +/or RPV are associated with higher odds for a detectable HIV-1 RNA.
QU would you measure CAB levels in a patient with low level viraemia?
#IDSky #HIVSky #PKsky
@paulsaxmd.bsky.social
QU would you measure CAB levels in a patient with low level viraemia?
#IDSky #HIVSky #PKsky
@paulsaxmd.bsky.social
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#CROI2025 And as if by Magic!
Drug levels do matter if you use the right cutoff!
A very elegant study of PK among CAB PReP people with incident infections compared with matched controls
#IDsky #HIVsky
@sebpoule.bsky.social @paulsaxmd.bsky.social @profchloeorkin.bsky.social
Drug levels do matter if you use the right cutoff!
A very elegant study of PK among CAB PReP people with incident infections compared with matched controls
#IDsky #HIVsky
@sebpoule.bsky.social @paulsaxmd.bsky.social @profchloeorkin.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#CROI2025 And as if by Magic!
Drug levels do matter if you use the right cutoff!
A very elegant study of PK among CAB PReP people with incident infections compared with matched controls
#IDsky #HIVsky
@sebpoule.bsky.social @paulsaxmd.bsky.social @profchloeorkin.bsky.social
Drug levels do matter if you use the right cutoff!
A very elegant study of PK among CAB PReP people with incident infections compared with matched controls
#IDsky #HIVsky
@sebpoule.bsky.social @paulsaxmd.bsky.social @profchloeorkin.bsky.social
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PK/safety of ONCE YEARLY LEN! Potential to address LEN barriers. Two IM formulations (F1/2) assessed in HIV-neg ppl.
Tmax F1 12W, good PK to W56 & higher than Q6M LEN. F2 similar. Both safe/well-tolerated. NO NODULES!!!! Pre-treatment ice reduced injection pain.
This is exciting?!?!??!
#CROI2025
Tmax F1 12W, good PK to W56 & higher than Q6M LEN. F2 similar. Both safe/well-tolerated. NO NODULES!!!! Pre-treatment ice reduced injection pain.
This is exciting?!?!??!
#CROI2025
March 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
PK/safety of ONCE YEARLY LEN! Potential to address LEN barriers. Two IM formulations (F1/2) assessed in HIV-neg ppl.
Tmax F1 12W, good PK to W56 & higher than Q6M LEN. F2 similar. Both safe/well-tolerated. NO NODULES!!!! Pre-treatment ice reduced injection pain.
This is exciting?!?!??!
#CROI2025
Tmax F1 12W, good PK to W56 & higher than Q6M LEN. F2 similar. Both safe/well-tolerated. NO NODULES!!!! Pre-treatment ice reduced injection pain.
This is exciting?!?!??!
#CROI2025
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Le 7 mars une grande journée d'action "Stand-up for science" se prépare aux USA: les chercheurs américains lancent une mobilisation pour dénoncer le démantèlement de l’appareil scientifique américain. Il me paraît indispensable de soutenir et de relayer cette action.
standupforscience2025.org
standupforscience2025.org
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.
standupforscience2025.org
March 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Le 7 mars une grande journée d'action "Stand-up for science" se prépare aux USA: les chercheurs américains lancent une mobilisation pour dénoncer le démantèlement de l’appareil scientifique américain. Il me paraît indispensable de soutenir et de relayer cette action.
standupforscience2025.org
standupforscience2025.org
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🔥 Avec Dr Thy et de nombreux collègues, on organise une formation sur Bon Usage des Antibiotiques dans les infections communautaires graves 👇
Vu les orateurs/trices je pense que cela va être top
Public : réanimateurs, urgentistes, infectiologues, etc.
N'hésitez pas à partager 🙏
Vu les orateurs/trices je pense que cela va être top
Public : réanimateurs, urgentistes, infectiologues, etc.
N'hésitez pas à partager 🙏
March 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
🔥 Avec Dr Thy et de nombreux collègues, on organise une formation sur Bon Usage des Antibiotiques dans les infections communautaires graves 👇
Vu les orateurs/trices je pense que cela va être top
Public : réanimateurs, urgentistes, infectiologues, etc.
N'hésitez pas à partager 🙏
Vu les orateurs/trices je pense que cela va être top
Public : réanimateurs, urgentistes, infectiologues, etc.
N'hésitez pas à partager 🙏
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FFS!
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-wh...
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-wh...
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.
www.huffpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
FFS!
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-wh...
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-wh...
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Unjustified silence in the face of this new war in eastern DR Congo
"Inaction implies resignation to the idea that the survival of the fittest governs the world's fate"
Correspondence in @thelancet.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
"Inaction implies resignation to the idea that the survival of the fittest governs the world's fate"
Correspondence in @thelancet.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Unjustified silence in the face of this new war in eastern DR Congo
Since Jan 23, 2025, the rebel March 23 Movement (M23), with the support of Rwanda,
has launched an offensive in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, further exacerbating
the region's ongoing conf...
www.thelancet.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Unjustified silence in the face of this new war in eastern DR Congo
"Inaction implies resignation to the idea that the survival of the fittest governs the world's fate"
Correspondence in @thelancet.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
"Inaction implies resignation to the idea that the survival of the fittest governs the world's fate"
Correspondence in @thelancet.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
www.science.org
February 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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From USAID colleague, with permission to share. It's not just chaos it is devastation and tearing apart of families and communities. Not to talk of systems that kept us safe. This is just one story, multiple this by 10,000.
Is this really making America great?
Is this really making America great?
February 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
From USAID colleague, with permission to share. It's not just chaos it is devastation and tearing apart of families and communities. Not to talk of systems that kept us safe. This is just one story, multiple this by 10,000.
Is this really making America great?
Is this really making America great?
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Aaah les couvertures du Time... time.com/7213409/elon...
February 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Aaah les couvertures du Time... time.com/7213409/elon...
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This is just getting worse. All ACIP vaccine recommendations have just been taken down!
This is a massive, politically motivated crackdown and dismantling of basic public health. Vaccines save millions of lives.
This is insane.
#IDSky #PublicHealth
www.cdc.gov/acip-recs/hc...
This is a massive, politically motivated crackdown and dismantling of basic public health. Vaccines save millions of lives.
This is insane.
#IDSky #PublicHealth
www.cdc.gov/acip-recs/hc...
February 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This is just getting worse. All ACIP vaccine recommendations have just been taken down!
This is a massive, politically motivated crackdown and dismantling of basic public health. Vaccines save millions of lives.
This is insane.
#IDSky #PublicHealth
www.cdc.gov/acip-recs/hc...
This is a massive, politically motivated crackdown and dismantling of basic public health. Vaccines save millions of lives.
This is insane.
#IDSky #PublicHealth
www.cdc.gov/acip-recs/hc...
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It’s #CervicalCancer awareness month!
The #HPV vaccine is highly effective.
It can prevent 9 in 10 cases of the most high-risk strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) – the #1 cause of cervical cancer.
The #HPV vaccine is highly effective.
It can prevent 9 in 10 cases of the most high-risk strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) – the #1 cause of cervical cancer.
January 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It’s #CervicalCancer awareness month!
The #HPV vaccine is highly effective.
It can prevent 9 in 10 cases of the most high-risk strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) – the #1 cause of cervical cancer.
The #HPV vaccine is highly effective.
It can prevent 9 in 10 cases of the most high-risk strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) – the #1 cause of cervical cancer.
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A violent criminal? A threat to society? A danger to democracy? No, no and no. This is someone being punished again and again for giving a damn about humanity and the living world.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found
Exclusive: Gaie Delap told she will have to serve 20 more days that correspond to period of time at home after recall
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
A violent criminal? A threat to society? A danger to democracy? No, no and no. This is someone being punished again and again for giving a damn about humanity and the living world.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
European study on Mpox clade Ilb published in CID
Very happy to participate
eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Very happy to participate
eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
MOSAIC study provides new insights into mpox clinical outcomes and transmission | ISARIC
eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
European study on Mpox clade Ilb published in CID
Very happy to participate
eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Very happy to participate
eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Brussels charities struggle amid lack of coalition agreement
Brussels charities struggle amid lack of coalition agreement
A group of 40 non-profit organisations specialising in safety and prevention has joined more than 360 other non-profit organisations in launching an appeal to the Brussels government to provide urgent financial security amid the lack of a coalition agreement from the new government.
www.thebulletin.be
January 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Brussels charities struggle amid lack of coalition agreement
Les PFAS, une famille de 10 000 « polluants éternels » qui contaminent toute l’humanité
January 14, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Les PFAS, une famille de 10 000 « polluants éternels » qui contaminent toute l’humanité
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Our latest research on the prevalence of Neisseria meningitidis carriage among men who have sex with men at our center in Brussels.
Our (prepandemic) findings suggest a protective role of quadrivalent vaccine against N. Meningitidis carriage.
#IDSky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Our (prepandemic) findings suggest a protective role of quadrivalent vaccine against N. Meningitidis carriage.
#IDSky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Prevalence of Neisseria meningitidis carriage among men who have sex with men at a sexual health clinic in Brussels, Belgium: a cross-sectional study - European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infe...
To assess the prevalence of Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) carriage among men who have sex with men (MSM) and examine potential risk factors associated with colonization. This was an observational, cross...
link.springer.com
December 30, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Our latest research on the prevalence of Neisseria meningitidis carriage among men who have sex with men at our center in Brussels.
Our (prepandemic) findings suggest a protective role of quadrivalent vaccine against N. Meningitidis carriage.
#IDSky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Our (prepandemic) findings suggest a protective role of quadrivalent vaccine against N. Meningitidis carriage.
#IDSky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Yet another mechanism of cheating in academic publishing. The "public or perish" game is killing science. In our Trumpian world these scientists thrive, but science dies.
This being said, handling editors at STOTEN - not only Malafaia- must give some explanations
www.science.org/content/arti...
This being said, handling editors at STOTEN - not only Malafaia- must give some explanations
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘It felt very icky’: This scientist’s name was used to write fake peer reviews
Elsevier retracts dozens of journal articles that were published based on “fictitious” reviews
www.science.org
December 8, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Yet another mechanism of cheating in academic publishing. The "public or perish" game is killing science. In our Trumpian world these scientists thrive, but science dies.
This being said, handling editors at STOTEN - not only Malafaia- must give some explanations
www.science.org/content/arti...
This being said, handling editors at STOTEN - not only Malafaia- must give some explanations
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Carte blanche parue ce week end dans La Libre
"La recherche sur le VIH/SIDA en Belgique est plus que jamais nécessaire. Il est urgent de repenser son financement !"
www.lalibre.be/debats/opini...
"La recherche sur le VIH/SIDA en Belgique est plus que jamais nécessaire. Il est urgent de repenser son financement !"
www.lalibre.be/debats/opini...
La recherche sur le VIH/SIDA en Belgique est plus que jamais nécessaire. Il est urgent de repenser son financement !
À l'occasion du symposium national sur la recherche sur le VIH/SIDA, nous souhaitons attirer l'attention sur les dangers qui pèsent sur l'avenir de la recherche sur le VIH en Belgique, dans le context...
www.lalibre.be
December 10, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Carte blanche parue ce week end dans La Libre
"La recherche sur le VIH/SIDA en Belgique est plus que jamais nécessaire. Il est urgent de repenser son financement !"
www.lalibre.be/debats/opini...
"La recherche sur le VIH/SIDA en Belgique est plus que jamais nécessaire. Il est urgent de repenser son financement !"
www.lalibre.be/debats/opini...
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🌍🦠 H5N1 avian influenza is resurging with alarming traits. Once confined to poultry in Asia, it’s now global, causing wild bird die-offs & spilling into mammals. What’s next for this highly pathogenic virus? #H5N1 #Influenza
A perspective🧵
A perspective🧵
November 26, 2024 at 2:49 PM
🌍🦠 H5N1 avian influenza is resurging with alarming traits. Once confined to poultry in Asia, it’s now global, causing wild bird die-offs & spilling into mammals. What’s next for this highly pathogenic virus? #H5N1 #Influenza
A perspective🧵
A perspective🧵
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[ZÉRO RISQUE]
-une personne vivant avec le VIH, sous traitement, NE TRANSMET PAS LE VIH
-grâce à l'efficacité du traitement qui maintient sa charge virale indétectable
=> il y a : ZÉRO RISQUE DE TRANSMISSION DU VIH
+ d'info sur actions-traitements.org/zerorisque/
#WorldAIDSDay2024 #zerorisque
-une personne vivant avec le VIH, sous traitement, NE TRANSMET PAS LE VIH
-grâce à l'efficacité du traitement qui maintient sa charge virale indétectable
=> il y a : ZÉRO RISQUE DE TRANSMISSION DU VIH
+ d'info sur actions-traitements.org/zerorisque/
#WorldAIDSDay2024 #zerorisque
November 30, 2024 at 4:07 PM
[ZÉRO RISQUE]
-une personne vivant avec le VIH, sous traitement, NE TRANSMET PAS LE VIH
-grâce à l'efficacité du traitement qui maintient sa charge virale indétectable
=> il y a : ZÉRO RISQUE DE TRANSMISSION DU VIH
+ d'info sur actions-traitements.org/zerorisque/
#WorldAIDSDay2024 #zerorisque
-une personne vivant avec le VIH, sous traitement, NE TRANSMET PAS LE VIH
-grâce à l'efficacité du traitement qui maintient sa charge virale indétectable
=> il y a : ZÉRO RISQUE DE TRANSMISSION DU VIH
+ d'info sur actions-traitements.org/zerorisque/
#WorldAIDSDay2024 #zerorisque