John White
@drjohnwhite.bsky.social
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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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
"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
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
"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
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 😳
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
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 😳
Targeted revaccination campaigns might be needed 😳
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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.
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
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.
Deadline for applications: Friday 5th December 2025.
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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
academic.oup.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Finally published this article and it's more important now than ever to #SaveHIVFunding #HIVSky
academic.oup.com/cid/article-...
academic.oup.com/cid/article-...
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News from the 20th European AIDS Conference:
Chemsex use is changing in Europe
@eacsociety.bsky.social #EACS2025
www.aidsmap.com/news/nov-202...
Chemsex use is changing in Europe
@eacsociety.bsky.social #EACS2025
www.aidsmap.com/news/nov-202...
Chemsex use is changing in Europe
The way gay and bisexual men are using drugs to enhance sex (chemsex) is changing in Europe, especially among younger men and those new to chemsex. They are turning to a new generation of drugs, gener...
www.aidsmap.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
News from the 20th European AIDS Conference:
Chemsex use is changing in Europe
@eacsociety.bsky.social #EACS2025
www.aidsmap.com/news/nov-202...
Chemsex use is changing in Europe
@eacsociety.bsky.social #EACS2025
www.aidsmap.com/news/nov-202...
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Excited to share our new article in STI “‘Self-testing’ vs ‘self-collection’: The critical role of consistent language in STI diagnostics.”
✨ Inconsistent terms create confusing across research, policy, & programs
✨Words shape how people access care
Read more at sti.bmj.com/content/earl...
✨ Inconsistent terms create confusing across research, policy, & programs
✨Words shape how people access care
Read more at sti.bmj.com/content/earl...
‘Self-testing’ versus ‘self-collection’: the critical role of consistent language in the field of STI diagnostics
Self-collection of specimens and self-testing for the detection of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are important tools that play a vital role in the prevention, detection and treatment of these...
sti.bmj.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Excited to share our new article in STI “‘Self-testing’ vs ‘self-collection’: The critical role of consistent language in STI diagnostics.”
✨ Inconsistent terms create confusing across research, policy, & programs
✨Words shape how people access care
Read more at sti.bmj.com/content/earl...
✨ Inconsistent terms create confusing across research, policy, & programs
✨Words shape how people access care
Read more at sti.bmj.com/content/earl...
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News from the 20th European AIDS Conference:
Less weight gain with Dovato than Biktarvy
@eacsociety.bsky.social #EACS2025
www.aidsmap.com/news/nov-202...
Less weight gain with Dovato than Biktarvy
@eacsociety.bsky.social #EACS2025
www.aidsmap.com/news/nov-202...
Less weight gain with <i>Dovato</i> than <i>Biktarvy</i>
Switching to a two-drug regimen of dolutegravir / lamivudine (Dovato) resulted in significantly less weight gain after 96 weeks compared to a switch to tenofovir alafenamide / emtricitabine / bictegra...
www.aidsmap.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
News from the 20th European AIDS Conference:
Less weight gain with Dovato than Biktarvy
@eacsociety.bsky.social #EACS2025
www.aidsmap.com/news/nov-202...
Less weight gain with Dovato than Biktarvy
@eacsociety.bsky.social #EACS2025
www.aidsmap.com/news/nov-202...
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News from the 20th European AIDS Conference:
STIs and doxyPEP at EACS: community effectiveness, gonorrhoea resistance and ‘blunted’ syphilis
@eacsociety.bsky.social #EACS2025
www.aidsmap.com/news/nov-202...
STIs and doxyPEP at EACS: community effectiveness, gonorrhoea resistance and ‘blunted’ syphilis
@eacsociety.bsky.social #EACS2025
www.aidsmap.com/news/nov-202...
STIs and doxyPEP at EACS: community effectiveness, gonorrhoea resistance and ‘blunted’ syphilis
A significant number of presentations at last week’s 20th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2025) in Paris were concerned with the bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) syphilis, gon...
www.aidsmap.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
News from the 20th European AIDS Conference:
STIs and doxyPEP at EACS: community effectiveness, gonorrhoea resistance and ‘blunted’ syphilis
@eacsociety.bsky.social #EACS2025
www.aidsmap.com/news/nov-202...
STIs and doxyPEP at EACS: community effectiveness, gonorrhoea resistance and ‘blunted’ syphilis
@eacsociety.bsky.social #EACS2025
www.aidsmap.com/news/nov-202...
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excellent article by @tabbykibugiwriter.bsky.social on continued inequities faced by Black women in sexual health: national.thelead.uk/p/sti-crisis...
We’re in an STI crisis. Once again, Black women are being left behind
The gonorrhoea vaccine should be a major breakthrough, but young Black women are being left out of sexual health policy – with devastating effects.
national.thelead.uk
October 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
excellent article by @tabbykibugiwriter.bsky.social on continued inequities faced by Black women in sexual health: national.thelead.uk/p/sti-crisis...
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Hear from @tht.org.uk, @thelovetankcic.bsky.social, @cosrh.org, @bashhuk.bsky.social, @brookcharity.bsky.social, DHSC and the English HIV & Sexual Health Commissioners Group.
Find out more 👇
committees.parliament.uk/event/25292/...
Watch live 🔴 parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
Find out more 👇
committees.parliament.uk/event/25292/...
Watch live 🔴 parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
22 October 2025 - Sexual Health Services in England - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
09:15 - The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
committees.parliament.uk
October 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Hear from @tht.org.uk, @thelovetankcic.bsky.social, @cosrh.org, @bashhuk.bsky.social, @brookcharity.bsky.social, DHSC and the English HIV & Sexual Health Commissioners Group.
Find out more 👇
committees.parliament.uk/event/25292/...
Watch live 🔴 parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
Find out more 👇
committees.parliament.uk/event/25292/...
Watch live 🔴 parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
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In North East London and want to sign up to the new online HIV PrEP service?
Join one of our multilingual online sessions to take you through the sign-up process.
www.thelovetank.info/news/prepwor...
Join one of our multilingual online sessions to take you through the sign-up process.
www.thelovetank.info/news/prepwor...
Multilingual online HIV PrEP sessions launcheD — The Love Tank CIC
The Love Tank's HIV PrEP programme - PrEPster - launches five new multilingual online information sessions during October, to assist with enrolment into new London online PrEP servic...
www.thelovetank.info
October 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
In North East London and want to sign up to the new online HIV PrEP service?
Join one of our multilingual online sessions to take you through the sign-up process.
www.thelovetank.info/news/prepwor...
Join one of our multilingual online sessions to take you through the sign-up process.
www.thelovetank.info/news/prepwor...
Phew!!! 🫣
One Dose versus Three Doses of Benzathine Penicillin G in Early Syphilis | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
One Dose versus Three Doses of Benzathine Penicillin G in Early Syphilis | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
One Dose versus Three Doses of Benzathine Penicillin G in Early Syphilis | NEJM
Controversy persists regarding the appropriate duration of therapy with benzathine penicillin G in persons with early (i.e., primary, secondary, or early latent) syphilis (Treponema pallidum infect...
www.nejm.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Phew!!! 🫣
One Dose versus Three Doses of Benzathine Penicillin G in Early Syphilis | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
One Dose versus Three Doses of Benzathine Penicillin G in Early Syphilis | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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This is a SHARE collaborative project. We are conducting a national survey to improve PrEP access for communities facing the greatest barriers, including racially minoritised women & men, queer men of colour, trans/non-binary people, sex workers, and recent migrants.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4a2kh54n
🔗 tinyurl.com/4a2kh54n
September 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This is a SHARE collaborative project. We are conducting a national survey to improve PrEP access for communities facing the greatest barriers, including racially minoritised women & men, queer men of colour, trans/non-binary people, sex workers, and recent migrants.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4a2kh54n
🔗 tinyurl.com/4a2kh54n
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Help improve sexual and reproductive health in City and Hackney! Find out below if you are eligible to take part and email hccommunity@positiveeast.org.uk to get involved.
September 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Help improve sexual and reproductive health in City and Hackney! Find out below if you are eligible to take part and email hccommunity@positiveeast.org.uk to get involved.
I see these Bulk Feed trucks driving around here all the time - wonder why I notice them more than other trucks?? 🤣
September 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I see these Bulk Feed trucks driving around here all the time - wonder why I notice them more than other trucks?? 🤣
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BASHH welcomes NHS England's announcement that more than 100,000 people have now accessed hepatitis C home testing.
Sustaining and expanding testing programmes will be vital to meet elimination targets for hepatitis C.
Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/41hrxT3
Sustaining and expanding testing programmes will be vital to meet elimination targets for hepatitis C.
Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/41hrxT3
August 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
BASHH welcomes NHS England's announcement that more than 100,000 people have now accessed hepatitis C home testing.
Sustaining and expanding testing programmes will be vital to meet elimination targets for hepatitis C.
Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/41hrxT3
Sustaining and expanding testing programmes will be vital to meet elimination targets for hepatitis C.
Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/41hrxT3
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There's a new way to get HIV PrEP in North East London, without having to visit a clinic.
The new online service provides all the necessary tests and support, with PrEP delivered to your address.
Find out more here - www.prepster.info/free-prep-ne...
@positiveeast.bsky.social
The new online service provides all the necessary tests and support, with PrEP delivered to your address.
Find out more here - www.prepster.info/free-prep-ne...
@positiveeast.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
There's a new way to get HIV PrEP in North East London, without having to visit a clinic.
The new online service provides all the necessary tests and support, with PrEP delivered to your address.
Find out more here - www.prepster.info/free-prep-ne...
@positiveeast.bsky.social
The new online service provides all the necessary tests and support, with PrEP delivered to your address.
Find out more here - www.prepster.info/free-prep-ne...
@positiveeast.bsky.social
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News from #IAS2025: Resistance is a growing concern amid rising use of doxyPEP
www.aidsmap.com/news/jul-2025/resistance-growing-concern-amid-rising-use-doxypep
@iasociety.bsky.social
www.aidsmap.com/news/jul-2025/resistance-growing-concern-amid-rising-use-doxypep
@iasociety.bsky.social
Resistance is a growing concern amid rising use of doxyPEP
As doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP) for prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) enters widespread use, questions remain about its implementation in the real world. At a sym...
www.aidsmap.com
July 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
News from #IAS2025: Resistance is a growing concern amid rising use of doxyPEP
www.aidsmap.com/news/jul-2025/resistance-growing-concern-amid-rising-use-doxypep
@iasociety.bsky.social
www.aidsmap.com/news/jul-2025/resistance-growing-concern-amid-rising-use-doxypep
@iasociety.bsky.social
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New UK HIV PrEP guidelines from @bashhuk.bsky.social @bhiva.bsky.social offer greater access and equity.
Read our news story here -
www.thelovetank.info/news/prep-gu...
Read our news story here -
www.thelovetank.info/news/prep-gu...
New UK HIV PrEP guidelines offer greater access and equity — The Love Tank CIC
New HIV PrEP guidelines, published by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) and the British HIV Association (BHIVA), set out a framework for greater access ...
www.thelovetank.info
July 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
New UK HIV PrEP guidelines from @bashhuk.bsky.social @bhiva.bsky.social offer greater access and equity.
Read our news story here -
www.thelovetank.info/news/prep-gu...
Read our news story here -
www.thelovetank.info/news/prep-gu...
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Long-acting #injectablePrEP approved in the US – at $28,000 a year, despite modelling showing generic price could be just $25 per person:
i-base.info/htb/51357
It would be cheaper to become #HIVpositive and take ART than use #Yeztugo #lenacapavir as #PrEP.
#HIVsky #HIV #HIVprevention #Gilead
i-base.info/htb/51357
It would be cheaper to become #HIVpositive and take ART than use #Yeztugo #lenacapavir as #PrEP.
#HIVsky #HIV #HIVprevention #Gilead
July 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Long-acting #injectablePrEP approved in the US – at $28,000 a year, despite modelling showing generic price could be just $25 per person:
i-base.info/htb/51357
It would be cheaper to become #HIVpositive and take ART than use #Yeztugo #lenacapavir as #PrEP.
#HIVsky #HIV #HIVprevention #Gilead
i-base.info/htb/51357
It would be cheaper to become #HIVpositive and take ART than use #Yeztugo #lenacapavir as #PrEP.
#HIVsky #HIV #HIVprevention #Gilead
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New UK guidelines for prescribing doxyPEP for syphilis prevention launched today by @bashhuk.bsky.social
The Love Tank played a key role in community engagement for the guidelines, with @benvyle.bsky.social and @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social on the writing group.
www.thelovetank.info/news/doxysyph
The Love Tank played a key role in community engagement for the guidelines, with @benvyle.bsky.social and @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social on the writing group.
www.thelovetank.info/news/doxysyph
DoxyPEP for syphilis prevention – new UK guidelines launched — The Love Tank CIC
New guidelines issued today by the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) provides an evidence-based framework for the prescription of doxy PEP to prevent syphilis.
www.thelovetank.info
June 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
New UK guidelines for prescribing doxyPEP for syphilis prevention launched today by @bashhuk.bsky.social
The Love Tank played a key role in community engagement for the guidelines, with @benvyle.bsky.social and @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social on the writing group.
www.thelovetank.info/news/doxysyph
The Love Tank played a key role in community engagement for the guidelines, with @benvyle.bsky.social and @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social on the writing group.
www.thelovetank.info/news/doxysyph
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We have published new data on sexually transmitted infections in England:
📈 Syphilis diagnoses continued to rise
📉 Gonorrhoea cases dropped overall, with the biggest reduction in young people (15 to 24)
📈 Syphilis diagnoses continued to rise
📉 Gonorrhoea cases dropped overall, with the biggest reduction in young people (15 to 24)
June 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
We have published new data on sexually transmitted infections in England:
📈 Syphilis diagnoses continued to rise
📉 Gonorrhoea cases dropped overall, with the biggest reduction in young people (15 to 24)
📈 Syphilis diagnoses continued to rise
📉 Gonorrhoea cases dropped overall, with the biggest reduction in young people (15 to 24)
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Are you living with #HIV & aged over 50 in the UK or a carer for someone who is? Are you a healthcare professional who looks after someone living with HIV?
What are your health and care concerns about HIV and ageing?
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/socs/have-...
What are your health and care concerns about HIV and ageing?
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/socs/have-...
May 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Are you living with #HIV & aged over 50 in the UK or a carer for someone who is? Are you a healthcare professional who looks after someone living with HIV?
What are your health and care concerns about HIV and ageing?
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/socs/have-...
What are your health and care concerns about HIV and ageing?
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/socs/have-...
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New HIV nPEP guidelines are out! This is very exciting news!! Biktarvy for nPEP (yay!). nPEP should be started and not delayed waiting for labs (yay!). Further emphasis that U=U and some people are on PrEP, so may not need nPEP (double yay!) #HIVSky #IDSky
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...).
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...).
Antiretroviral Postexposure Prophylaxis After Sexual ...
CDC updates HIV nonoccupational postexposure ...
www.cdc.gov
May 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
New HIV nPEP guidelines are out! This is very exciting news!! Biktarvy for nPEP (yay!). nPEP should be started and not delayed waiting for labs (yay!). Further emphasis that U=U and some people are on PrEP, so may not need nPEP (double yay!) #HIVSky #IDSky
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...).
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...).