Sawyer Patterson
@soyer.bsky.social
Sexual Health Nerd, LSHTM Alumni, Canadian, Queer and living in London
Unwavering Pro-Palestinian Liberation Views here btw 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Unwavering Pro-Palestinian Liberation Views here btw 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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📢 The BASHH/BHIVA Guidelines on the Use of HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) 2025 have been published
Thank you to @bhiva.bsky.social, the writing group, and all contributors for your expertise and dedication.
Access the guidelines here ➡️ bit.ly/4lMe9Ou
Thank you to @bhiva.bsky.social, the writing group, and all contributors for your expertise and dedication.
Access the guidelines here ➡️ bit.ly/4lMe9Ou
July 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📢 The BASHH/BHIVA Guidelines on the Use of HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) 2025 have been published
Thank you to @bhiva.bsky.social, the writing group, and all contributors for your expertise and dedication.
Access the guidelines here ➡️ bit.ly/4lMe9Ou
Thank you to @bhiva.bsky.social, the writing group, and all contributors for your expertise and dedication.
Access the guidelines here ➡️ bit.ly/4lMe9Ou
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Phasing out NIH’s HIV clinical guidelines is flat-out immoral and unethical.
These guidelines drive early diagnosis, ART initiation, and viral suppression—82% linked to care within 30 days, 69% virally suppressed by 6 months.
Removing them puts millions of lives at risk.
wapo.st/3FQovhf
These guidelines drive early diagnosis, ART initiation, and viral suppression—82% linked to care within 30 days, 69% virally suppressed by 6 months.
Removing them puts millions of lives at risk.
wapo.st/3FQovhf
Administration to phase out NIH support of HIV clinical guidelines
The National Institutes of Health will phase out its support of the clinical practice guidelines that advise doctors how to diagnose and treat HIV.
wapo.st
June 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Phasing out NIH’s HIV clinical guidelines is flat-out immoral and unethical.
These guidelines drive early diagnosis, ART initiation, and viral suppression—82% linked to care within 30 days, 69% virally suppressed by 6 months.
Removing them puts millions of lives at risk.
wapo.st/3FQovhf
These guidelines drive early diagnosis, ART initiation, and viral suppression—82% linked to care within 30 days, 69% virally suppressed by 6 months.
Removing them puts millions of lives at risk.
wapo.st/3FQovhf
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The new NIH director said grants “canceled because they’re DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion]-based science … [which does] not actually have anything to do with promoting the health of the American people” www.science.org/content/arti...
So let’s take a quick look at some of his past papers… 🧵
So let’s take a quick look at some of his past papers… 🧵
May 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The new NIH director said grants “canceled because they’re DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion]-based science … [which does] not actually have anything to do with promoting the health of the American people” www.science.org/content/arti...
So let’s take a quick look at some of his past papers… 🧵
So let’s take a quick look at some of his past papers… 🧵
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I just listened to #TheDaily episode on "On COVID's Wake" with Frances Lee & Stephen Macedo where they make a categorical statement that non-pharmaceutical interventions didn't work during the pandemic. The evidence does not support this categorical claim. 1/
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Non-pharmaceutical interventions and covid-19 burden in the United States: retrospective, observational cohort study
To evaluate the adoption and discontinuation of four broadly used non-pharmaceutical interventions on shifts in the covid-19 burden among US states. Retrospective, observational cohort study. US state...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
March 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I just listened to #TheDaily episode on "On COVID's Wake" with Frances Lee & Stephen Macedo where they make a categorical statement that non-pharmaceutical interventions didn't work during the pandemic. The evidence does not support this categorical claim. 1/
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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“A UK registered company (GSK), rolling-over to a US administration that shows blatant disregard for human rights, sends a chilling signal to partners & sets a dangerous precedent.
We join other NGOs & activists in expressing our gravest concern with GSK."
www.thelovetank.info/news/pharmadiv
We join other NGOs & activists in expressing our gravest concern with GSK."
www.thelovetank.info/news/pharmadiv
The Love Tank calls for pharma diversity commitment — The Love Tank CIC
In a letter to the Chief Executives of GSK and ViiV Health Care, The Love Tank today calls for a commitment for diversity from the companies.
www.thelovetank.info
March 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“A UK registered company (GSK), rolling-over to a US administration that shows blatant disregard for human rights, sends a chilling signal to partners & sets a dangerous precedent.
We join other NGOs & activists in expressing our gravest concern with GSK."
www.thelovetank.info/news/pharmadiv
We join other NGOs & activists in expressing our gravest concern with GSK."
www.thelovetank.info/news/pharmadiv
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UPDATE: Employees began receiving termination letters on Sunday night. Their last day will be April 24.
"To start sending these [letters] out at 10 p.m. on a Sunday night was horrendous," one source told me. "I've been up the whole night refreshing email as I watch my colleagues get terminated."
"To start sending these [letters] out at 10 p.m. on a Sunday night was horrendous," one source told me. "I've been up the whole night refreshing email as I watch my colleagues get terminated."
Trump officials will put 4,700 USAID employees on leave and eliminate 1,600 jobs
The decision comes in the wake of a judge's ruling that such a move will not cause irreparable harm to the employees. There will be exceptions for several hundred employees in roles deemed critical.
www.npr.org
February 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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🧵 Trump’s USAID funding freeze abruptly halted critical global health research, abandoning participants mid-trial. A gross ethical violation. @bachynski.bsky.social & I explain what happened and why it matters @bmj.com . ⬇️
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Abandoning research participants is an unconscionable betrayal
In 1964, the Declaration of Helsinki created a set of universal ethical principles to protect human participants in health research.1 Described as “the cornerstone of research ethics,”2 these principl...
www.bmj.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🧵 Trump’s USAID funding freeze abruptly halted critical global health research, abandoning participants mid-trial. A gross ethical violation. @bachynski.bsky.social & I explain what happened and why it matters @bmj.com . ⬇️
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
I want to talk about HIV and Cocaine.
This morning I stumbled upon a publication linking recent cocaine use in PLWH to increased latent HIV reservoirs. This caught my eye and I was surprised by what the paper suggested and intrigued by its citations.
The paper is: doi.org/10.1101/2022...
This morning I stumbled upon a publication linking recent cocaine use in PLWH to increased latent HIV reservoirs. This caught my eye and I was surprised by what the paper suggested and intrigued by its citations.
The paper is: doi.org/10.1101/2022...
doi.org
February 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I want to talk about HIV and Cocaine.
This morning I stumbled upon a publication linking recent cocaine use in PLWH to increased latent HIV reservoirs. This caught my eye and I was surprised by what the paper suggested and intrigued by its citations.
The paper is: doi.org/10.1101/2022...
This morning I stumbled upon a publication linking recent cocaine use in PLWH to increased latent HIV reservoirs. This caught my eye and I was surprised by what the paper suggested and intrigued by its citations.
The paper is: doi.org/10.1101/2022...
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Dual Daily HIV and sexually transmitted infection pre-exposure prophylaxis using tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine and doxycycline in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men and transgender women: The DuDHS Study
✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
A pilot, randomized controlled trial of Dual Daily HIV and sexually transmitted infection pre-exposure prophylaxis using tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine and doxycycline in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men and transgender women: The DuDHS Study
Men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women experience high sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates. This study evaluated the feasibility of doxycycline pre-exposure prophylaxis (doxyPrEP) for STI prevention in these key populations.
buff.ly
February 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Dual Daily HIV and sexually transmitted infection pre-exposure prophylaxis using tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine and doxycycline in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men and transgender women: The DuDHS Study
✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
✅ Just Accepted
#IDSky
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Want to shape the future of DoxyPEP provision in the UK?
Take part in the @bashhuk.bsky.social public consultation for new DoxyPEP guidelines.
Take part here - tinyurl.com/doxypepdraft
Deadline 11 March 2025.
Take part in the @bashhuk.bsky.social public consultation for new DoxyPEP guidelines.
Take part here - tinyurl.com/doxypepdraft
Deadline 11 March 2025.
January 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Want to shape the future of DoxyPEP provision in the UK?
Take part in the @bashhuk.bsky.social public consultation for new DoxyPEP guidelines.
Take part here - tinyurl.com/doxypepdraft
Deadline 11 March 2025.
Take part in the @bashhuk.bsky.social public consultation for new DoxyPEP guidelines.
Take part here - tinyurl.com/doxypepdraft
Deadline 11 March 2025.
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Routine #HIV testing has arrived to the @nhsUHLG A&Es in #Liverpool!
Opt-out testing works, saves money, and it's finding people who would otherwise not receive a test, most often from communities who are being left behind in our progress on #HIV.
www.liverpoolecho.co...
Opt-out testing works, saves money, and it's finding people who would otherwise not receive a test, most often from communities who are being left behind in our progress on #HIV.
www.liverpoolecho.co...
Every patient to be tested for HIV in Liverpool A&E departments - Liverpool Echo
It will be at two of the city's Accident and Emergency departments
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
January 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Routine #HIV testing has arrived to the @nhsUHLG A&Es in #Liverpool!
Opt-out testing works, saves money, and it's finding people who would otherwise not receive a test, most often from communities who are being left behind in our progress on #HIV.
www.liverpoolecho.co...
Opt-out testing works, saves money, and it's finding people who would otherwise not receive a test, most often from communities who are being left behind in our progress on #HIV.
www.liverpoolecho.co...
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At @science.org, the Breakthrough of the Year 2024
Lenacapavir – a new injectable drug that prevents HIV infection
"The Long Shot"
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Lenacapavir – a new injectable drug that prevents HIV infection
"The Long Shot"
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 12, 2024 at 7:03 PM
At @science.org, the Breakthrough of the Year 2024
Lenacapavir – a new injectable drug that prevents HIV infection
"The Long Shot"
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Lenacapavir – a new injectable drug that prevents HIV infection
"The Long Shot"
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Felt this WSJ article is a bit more topical following the recent news regarding private healthcare insurers.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
The phrase "Insurer-driven diagnoses of HIV" is something I did not expect to see.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
The phrase "Insurer-driven diagnoses of HIV" is something I did not expect to see.
Exclusive | Insurers Pocketed $50 Billion From Medicare for Diseases No Doctor Treated
Questionable diagnoses of HIV and other maladies triggered extra Medicare Advantage payments. “It’s anatomically impossible,” said one doctor about some cataract diagnoses.
www.wsj.com
December 12, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Felt this WSJ article is a bit more topical following the recent news regarding private healthcare insurers.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
The phrase "Insurer-driven diagnoses of HIV" is something I did not expect to see.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
The phrase "Insurer-driven diagnoses of HIV" is something I did not expect to see.
Hello I am tweeting this Live on Bluesky. came from T*tter and am hoping things will be nicer here
December 12, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Hello I am tweeting this Live on Bluesky. came from T*tter and am hoping things will be nicer here