Erica Pool
@ericapool.bsky.social
HIV/Sexual Health Doctor in the NHS.
NIHR Research Fellow at UCL Institute for Global Health.
Interests: #PrEP, inclusion health, HIV treatment and prevention.
She/Her
NIHR Research Fellow at UCL Institute for Global Health.
Interests: #PrEP, inclusion health, HIV treatment and prevention.
She/Her
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This reminds me of the shock authors expressed when I mentioned that journals can see the filenames of their submissions (eg, Finalised_manuscript_FINAL_final_Final_version23.doc). I'm very much here for filenames like the one below. 😁
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This reminds me of the shock authors expressed when I mentioned that journals can see the filenames of their submissions (eg, Finalised_manuscript_FINAL_final_Final_version23.doc). I'm very much here for filenames like the one below. 😁
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All opportunities to develop and share robust evidence to help us enhance progress towards #elimination of viral #hepatitis should be welcomed! Note special issue of #BMCInfectiousDiseases planned for 2026.
#HepSky #MedSky #GastroSky #IDSky 🧪
#HepSky #MedSky #GastroSky #IDSky 🧪
CALL FOR PAPERS
BMC Infectious Diseases – Special Collection
Hepatitis Virus Infections and Treatment
Guest Editors: Dr Sofia Bartlett & Dr Isaac Thom Shawa
Now accepting submissions.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 June 2026
🔗 Submit here: www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...
BMC Infectious Diseases – Special Collection
Hepatitis Virus Infections and Treatment
Guest Editors: Dr Sofia Bartlett & Dr Isaac Thom Shawa
Now accepting submissions.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 June 2026
🔗 Submit here: www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...
Call for papers - Hepatitis virus infections and treatment
www.biomedcentral.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
All opportunities to develop and share robust evidence to help us enhance progress towards #elimination of viral #hepatitis should be welcomed! Note special issue of #BMCInfectiousDiseases planned for 2026.
#HepSky #MedSky #GastroSky #IDSky 🧪
#HepSky #MedSky #GastroSky #IDSky 🧪
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Do you live with HIV?
Are you in Europe and currently on treatment?
Please take part in the Ask Us Europe survey, which aims to improve treatment and care for people with HIV.
I am proud to have worked on it with @shareeastlondon.bsky.social and a powerful group of people with HIV.
Please share. 🙏
Are you in Europe and currently on treatment?
Please take part in the Ask Us Europe survey, which aims to improve treatment and care for people with HIV.
I am proud to have worked on it with @shareeastlondon.bsky.social and a powerful group of people with HIV.
Please share. 🙏
July 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Do you live with HIV?
Are you in Europe and currently on treatment?
Please take part in the Ask Us Europe survey, which aims to improve treatment and care for people with HIV.
I am proud to have worked on it with @shareeastlondon.bsky.social and a powerful group of people with HIV.
Please share. 🙏
Are you in Europe and currently on treatment?
Please take part in the Ask Us Europe survey, which aims to improve treatment and care for people with HIV.
I am proud to have worked on it with @shareeastlondon.bsky.social and a powerful group of people with HIV.
Please share. 🙏
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Some great advice for GUM health care professionals on ways to support good care for trans people in sexual health services and beyond from Alison Berner and Joe Smith
Great feeback on impact of well designed service from Oliver Ellis from Waverley Care #BASHH2025
Great feeback on impact of well designed service from Oliver Ellis from Waverley Care #BASHH2025
June 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Some great advice for GUM health care professionals on ways to support good care for trans people in sexual health services and beyond from Alison Berner and Joe Smith
Great feeback on impact of well designed service from Oliver Ellis from Waverley Care #BASHH2025
Great feeback on impact of well designed service from Oliver Ellis from Waverley Care #BASHH2025
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“Trans women have never felt like a risk or a threat or a problem. While I can’t speak for everyone I honestly can’t think of an example where our trans-inclusive policy has been a problem for a service user.”
- Katie Russell, CEO of a rape crisis support service.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Katie Russell, CEO of a rape crisis support service.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Trans women have never felt a threat’: women’s refuges grapple with supreme court ruling
UK gender decision ignites debate among professionals working in the domestic abuse and rape crisis spheres
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“Trans women have never felt like a risk or a threat or a problem. While I can’t speak for everyone I honestly can’t think of an example where our trans-inclusive policy has been a problem for a service user.”
- Katie Russell, CEO of a rape crisis support service.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Katie Russell, CEO of a rape crisis support service.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Are you a healthcare professional in the UK caring for people living with HIV aged over 50?
What are the important issues for you & your patients?
We are creating a bank of research questions to bring to a workshop to prioritise research in this area.
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/socs/have-...
What are the important issues for you & your patients?
We are creating a bank of research questions to bring to a workshop to prioritise research in this area.
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/socs/have-...
May 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Are you a healthcare professional in the UK caring for people living with HIV aged over 50?
What are the important issues for you & your patients?
We are creating a bank of research questions to bring to a workshop to prioritise research in this area.
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/socs/have-...
What are the important issues for you & your patients?
We are creating a bank of research questions to bring to a workshop to prioritise research in this area.
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/socs/have-...
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Our Love Hub will return as part of @fringefilmfest.bsky.social on 19-21 Sept 2025 in east London.
Got an idea for an event, workshop, panel or performance?
Send your brief concepts to maureen@thelovetank.info by 3pm on Friday 2 May.
We provide bursaries to develop activities at the Love Hub :)
Got an idea for an event, workshop, panel or performance?
Send your brief concepts to maureen@thelovetank.info by 3pm on Friday 2 May.
We provide bursaries to develop activities at the Love Hub :)
April 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Our Love Hub will return as part of @fringefilmfest.bsky.social on 19-21 Sept 2025 in east London.
Got an idea for an event, workshop, panel or performance?
Send your brief concepts to maureen@thelovetank.info by 3pm on Friday 2 May.
We provide bursaries to develop activities at the Love Hub :)
Got an idea for an event, workshop, panel or performance?
Send your brief concepts to maureen@thelovetank.info by 3pm on Friday 2 May.
We provide bursaries to develop activities at the Love Hub :)
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A reminder we have 2 Academic Clinical Lecturer Posts in Infection @lshtm.bsky.social
shorturl.at/EIUIz
Open to people training in ID in UK & hold/imminently completing PhD.
Open to people with broad range of infection research interests.
If interested get in touch.
Applications close April 28
shorturl.at/EIUIz
Open to people training in ID in UK & hold/imminently completing PhD.
Open to people with broad range of infection research interests.
If interested get in touch.
Applications close April 28
Oriel
Published vacancies that are available for applicants to apply to. This includes key information suchs as the training programme(s), post type(s), advert information and duration.
shorturl.at
April 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A reminder we have 2 Academic Clinical Lecturer Posts in Infection @lshtm.bsky.social
shorturl.at/EIUIz
Open to people training in ID in UK & hold/imminently completing PhD.
Open to people with broad range of infection research interests.
If interested get in touch.
Applications close April 28
shorturl.at/EIUIz
Open to people training in ID in UK & hold/imminently completing PhD.
Open to people with broad range of infection research interests.
If interested get in touch.
Applications close April 28
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The silver lining to April Fools is that you can pretend, for a brief moment, that this isn't really happening.
I'm assuming that all news today is just a stupid joke.
April 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The silver lining to April Fools is that you can pretend, for a brief moment, that this isn't really happening.
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Research like this is how we'll get DoxyPEP on the NHS?!
Please take part of you can
Please take part of you can
We are open for recruitment! The @spearstudy.bsky.social is investigating antibiotic resistance and microbiome changes in people using and not using doxyPEP to prevent STIs. Visit doxypep.me/spear
@uclglobalhealth.bsky.social @cnwlnhs.bsky.social @thelovetankcic.bsky.social
@uclglobalhealth.bsky.social @cnwlnhs.bsky.social @thelovetankcic.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Research like this is how we'll get DoxyPEP on the NHS?!
Please take part of you can
Please take part of you can
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As Paul Farmer used to say, “We do not have the luxury of being pessimistic on other people’s behalf.” It is time to stand up for science, for global HIV and for everything we have fought so hard over decades. #CROI2025
March 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As Paul Farmer used to say, “We do not have the luxury of being pessimistic on other people’s behalf.” It is time to stand up for science, for global HIV and for everything we have fought so hard over decades. #CROI2025
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There's always a few withdrawn presentations at conferences, but seeing 3 withdrawals in a session on diversity is sad. I wonder how many CDC & NIH colleagues couldn't come? #CROI2025
March 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
There's always a few withdrawn presentations at conferences, but seeing 3 withdrawals in a session on diversity is sad. I wonder how many CDC & NIH colleagues couldn't come? #CROI2025
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Are you responsible for syphilis services? Please help us further our understanding of neurosyphilis diagnosis by completing the survey below.... @bashhuk.bsky.social
With @ukhsa.bsky.social and @bashhuk.bsky.social, we are conducting a survey of current clinical practice in neurosyphilis diagnosis and management in England and invite any services who test or treat NS to complete the survey at forms.office.com/r/DGN0J29CaU #HIVsky #IDsky #GUMsky
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Are you responsible for syphilis services? Please help us further our understanding of neurosyphilis diagnosis by completing the survey below.... @bashhuk.bsky.social
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With LGBT+ rights being challenged across the globe, this year’s theme of LGBT+ History Month of activism and social change offers an opportunity to reflect on the actions of previous generations and their lessons for today, Joe Parry writes on our website: #LGBTplusHM.
nat.org.uk/views/joe...
nat.org.uk/views/joe...
February 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
With LGBT+ rights being challenged across the globe, this year’s theme of LGBT+ History Month of activism and social change offers an opportunity to reflect on the actions of previous generations and their lessons for today, Joe Parry writes on our website: #LGBTplusHM.
nat.org.uk/views/joe...
nat.org.uk/views/joe...
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Not confirmed yet, but The DHS Program, which has operated for 40+ years collecting data in over 90+ countries and is the primary source of data for monitoring global health, is on the list of contracts to be cut. This is devastating on so many levels.
Not only has survey preparation, collection, and data processing stopped, but so has the ability to request and download #DHSProgram data because the requests are handled by my colleagues who are furloughed. If (when?) USAID is permanently dismantled, this tremendous global good will be lost. 💔
The Demographic Health Surveys Program is on pause. This is not surprising, but it's devastating on many levels. dhsprogram.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Not confirmed yet, but The DHS Program, which has operated for 40+ years collecting data in over 90+ countries and is the primary source of data for monitoring global health, is on the list of contracts to be cut. This is devastating on so many levels.
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Censor CDC scientists and ask them to withdraw papers from medical journals?
This is not how it works, Mr President.
Our response @bmj.com on the Trump Executive Order and his "forbidden words"
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
This is not how it works, Mr President.
Our response @bmj.com on the Trump Executive Order and his "forbidden words"
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
February 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Censor CDC scientists and ask them to withdraw papers from medical journals?
This is not how it works, Mr President.
Our response @bmj.com on the Trump Executive Order and his "forbidden words"
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
This is not how it works, Mr President.
Our response @bmj.com on the Trump Executive Order and his "forbidden words"
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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If you're thinking of applying for a Masters in Public Health & have experience of inequality, consider applying for the IMPACT Scholarship at UCL.
Happy to answer any questions you have!
www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology...
Happy to answer any questions you have!
www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology...
The IMPACT Scholarship
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 4, 2025 at 5:35 AM
If you're thinking of applying for a Masters in Public Health & have experience of inequality, consider applying for the IMPACT Scholarship at UCL.
Happy to answer any questions you have!
www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology...
Happy to answer any questions you have!
www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology...
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Thank you Race and Health for including an excerpt from #Unheard in your newsletter!
Free to read here (from chapter 6 ROAR where I’m sitting in a lecture by @madhupai.bsky.social
at LSHTM)
www.raceandhealth.org/post/book-ex...
Free to read here (from chapter 6 ROAR where I’m sitting in a lecture by @madhupai.bsky.social
at LSHTM)
www.raceandhealth.org/post/book-ex...
January 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Thank you Race and Health for including an excerpt from #Unheard in your newsletter!
Free to read here (from chapter 6 ROAR where I’m sitting in a lecture by @madhupai.bsky.social
at LSHTM)
www.raceandhealth.org/post/book-ex...
Free to read here (from chapter 6 ROAR where I’m sitting in a lecture by @madhupai.bsky.social
at LSHTM)
www.raceandhealth.org/post/book-ex...
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This JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis focuses on the recent CDC guidelines on use of doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP) to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections.
https://ja.ma/41FWRvL
https://ja.ma/41FWRvL
December 19, 2024 at 6:00 PM
This JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis focuses on the recent CDC guidelines on use of doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP) to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections.
https://ja.ma/41FWRvL
https://ja.ma/41FWRvL
Really feeling this as I prepare to hop on my bike shortly... even more so as I'm doing it at 35 weeks pregnant (yes the bump to thigh contact occurs even on the flat)
December 18, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Really feeling this as I prepare to hop on my bike shortly... even more so as I'm doing it at 35 weeks pregnant (yes the bump to thigh contact occurs even on the flat)
My teams background has become very themed for both Christmas and sexual health today! Ten points if you can name all of these bugs….
December 16, 2024 at 12:07 PM
My teams background has become very themed for both Christmas and sexual health today! Ten points if you can name all of these bugs….
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PrEP, the #HIV prevention drug, should be accessible beyond #sexualhealth clinics.
We welcome the announcement from the Welsh Government of a pilot project to access PrEP in community pharmacies next year so more people can benefit from it. #Wales #Cymru
pharmaceutical-journ...
We welcome the announcement from the Welsh Government of a pilot project to access PrEP in community pharmacies next year so more people can benefit from it. #Wales #Cymru
pharmaceutical-journ...
Access to PrEP from community pharmacies could be piloted from autumn 2025
HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) could be provided in community pharmacies in Wales from autumn 2025, the Welsh government has told The Pharmaceutical Journal. In a written update on the ‘HIV Action Plan for Wales 2023–2026’, published on 18 November 2024, Jeremy Miles, cabinet secretary for health and social care, said that Wales was making “encouraging […]
pharmaceutical-journal.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:00 AM
PrEP, the #HIV prevention drug, should be accessible beyond #sexualhealth clinics.
We welcome the announcement from the Welsh Government of a pilot project to access PrEP in community pharmacies next year so more people can benefit from it. #Wales #Cymru
pharmaceutical-journ...
We welcome the announcement from the Welsh Government of a pilot project to access PrEP in community pharmacies next year so more people can benefit from it. #Wales #Cymru
pharmaceutical-journ...
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We are deeply concerned by the decision by @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social to ban puberty blockers.
It's hard to fathom how he can say he cares for the wellbeing, safety and dignity of trans people, based on this decision.
This is wrong, cruel and heartless.
It's hard to fathom how he can say he cares for the wellbeing, safety and dignity of trans people, based on this decision.
This is wrong, cruel and heartless.
Continuing the ban on puberty blockers is a worrying decision.
The same medication continues to be used safely by young people for other reasons. By relying on the reason for prescription, is this ban simply discrimination against our
#trans youth? 👇
The same medication continues to be used safely by young people for other reasons. By relying on the reason for prescription, is this ban simply discrimination against our
#trans youth? 👇
December 11, 2024 at 4:30 PM
We are deeply concerned by the decision by @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social to ban puberty blockers.
It's hard to fathom how he can say he cares for the wellbeing, safety and dignity of trans people, based on this decision.
This is wrong, cruel and heartless.
It's hard to fathom how he can say he cares for the wellbeing, safety and dignity of trans people, based on this decision.
This is wrong, cruel and heartless.
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The LSHTM #TB Modelling Group is offering 3 #PhD studentships through the MRC LID scheme. Exciting projects, world-class mentorship. Apply now! Details in thread🧵
mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk
@lshtm.bsky.social #TBSky
mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk
@lshtm.bsky.social #TBSky
Home - MRC London Intercollegiate Doctoral Training Partnership Studentships
About MRC LID Information for prospective studentship applicants Information for current studentship holders Information for...
mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk
November 22, 2024 at 2:14 AM
The LSHTM #TB Modelling Group is offering 3 #PhD studentships through the MRC LID scheme. Exciting projects, world-class mentorship. Apply now! Details in thread🧵
mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk
@lshtm.bsky.social #TBSky
mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk
@lshtm.bsky.social #TBSky
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US based STOMP trial of tecovirimat (tpoxx) for clade 2 mpox fails to demonstrate efficacy benefit. Just as it did not in PALM 007 in clade 1 mpox in DRC.
There is no known treatment for mpox
Vaccination is the key control strategy and more research is needed.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38190312/
Early Tecovirimat Treatment for Mpox Disease Among People With HIV - PubMed
Results of this cohort study support starting tecovirimat in all PWH as soon as an mpox diagnosis is suspected. Additional research is warranted to confirm these findings.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 10, 2024 at 11:00 PM
US based STOMP trial of tecovirimat (tpoxx) for clade 2 mpox fails to demonstrate efficacy benefit. Just as it did not in PALM 007 in clade 1 mpox in DRC.
There is no known treatment for mpox
Vaccination is the key control strategy and more research is needed.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38190312/