The Love Tank urges continued mpox vaccination uptake as new European cases identified. www.thelovetank.info/news/mpox

NHS England announces availability of long acting injectable PrEP. The new formulation will be available only to those who cannot take oral PrEP. Around 1,000 people are expected to initially benefit. www.thelovetank.info/news/injecta...

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...

was really pleased to be invited to be a part of this celebration :) Can't quite believe it's 10 years. Huge congrats to the whole team! @drwilln.bsky.social Marc, Rich & the rest! @thelovetankcic.bsky.social

✊🏿 Paid opportunities for Black LGBTQIA+ writers and journalists! The @thelovetankcic.bsky.social Phil Samba @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social is joining @WeAreQueerAF.com as our Black History Month UK guest editor Details in 🧵 or apply now 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/black-histor...

Celebrating 10 years of PrEPster last week - with allies and comrades @ingridkyoung.bsky.social Winnie Sseruma @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social Marc Thompson and many others. www.thelovetank.info/news/prepste...

Get free information on the gonorrhoea and MPOX vaccine, and DoxyPEP this #SexualHealthWeek! 💉 Our Pitstop Clinic team have a fantastic selection of free guides and resources, giving you all the up to date information you need, kindly provided by our friends at @thelovetankcic.bsky.social!

I'm doing the World AIDS Day Red Run in November to raise money for Prepster and @thelovetankcic.bsky.social! Donate to my JustGiving page here: www.justgiving.com/page/edftmxxx Any and all donations appreciated🥰

Love Hub 2025 programme is live! This year we're celebrating our SEVENTH Hub in collaboration with @fringefilmfest.bsky.social with a bumper 30 events. Full programme here - www.thelovetank.info/news/lovehub25

Work with me, @drwilln.bsky.social & @thelovetankcic.bsky.social team to explore health activism

What are the drug & alcohol needs of queer people in the UK? The Love Tank's new research - undertaken by @benvyle.bsky.social - highlights key action-for-change. www.thelovetank.info/news/dareport

Exciting new post-doc fellow post just announced at University of Edinburgh - working alongside The Love Tank on the new Medicine Without Doctors collaboration. Closing date 02 Oct 2025. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

New research demonstrates acceptability of injectable HIV PrEP amongst key UK populations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I absolutely love my new Prepster t-shirt from @thelovetankcic.bsky.social crew!

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

It's been a while since we featured our www.longtimenosyph.info programme - and now comrades in Tbilisi, Georgia have translated our materials for use there. Why duplicate when we can collaborate? Massive solidarity to the work they're doing there.

Imagining Palestinian Futures - @ingridkyoung.bsky.social our colleague in the collaborative Doing Disability Futures project, writes about how violence in Palestine is inextricably tied to disability justice. www.disabilityfutures.uk/blog/ddf03

Attending UK Black Pride this coming weekend in London? For the 4th year running we'll be co-hosting a pop-up vaccine bus with NHS colleagues from All East and Homerton sexual health services. Come find us! @england.nhs.uk @bashhuk.bsky.social www.thelovetank.info/news/ukbp

I'm going to be doing a 10K run for charity later this year on World AIDS day raising money for @thelovetankcic.bsky.social a fabulous UK sexual health community organisation. Any and all donations to a very worthwhile cause gratefully received!

“The vaccination programme takes us one step closer to reducing one of the most common STIs; one that impacts on key groups of people. We must now ensure that vaccines reach those groups, including people who are least likely to visit clinics." @drwilln.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/n...

A new gonorrhoea vaccination programme launches today across the UK. Vaccination is being rolled-out across NHS sexual health clinics. Find out more about the vaccine here - www.queerhealth.info/projects/menb @bashhuk.bsky.social @england.nhs.uk @ukhsa.bsky.social

Nothing better than talking syphilis! Thanks @ukhsa.bsky.social @thelovetankcic.bsky.social @typemat12.bsky.social @nicolelieberman.bsky.social @manikkohli.bsky.social & others who came to kick off my NIHR Professorship. Looking forward to working with you & communities to improve UK Sexual Health

"This silencing work – which is patently and cruelly transphobic – significantly undermines the value and applicability of the guidance’s proposed HIV education" - Ben Weil, @thelovetankcic.bsky.social www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2...

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...

Important new research on mpox - this research supports the targeted, routine vaccination of gay and bisexual men in the UK.

“Because people know us it's at 3am on the dancefloor when we got the best responses: people come & chat about what we’re doing - ask for water, earplugs or condoms because they’ve just got lucky. We always get the most stunning responses.” www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

Come & work with me @benvyle.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social & @thelovetankcic.bsky.social Research Assistant with funded PhD within multidisciplinary project on Syphilis & STI control in the UK. Working with us to understand stakeholder & community perspectives on novel STI control strategies

The Love Tank's groundbreaking HIV PrEP programme - PrEPster - relaunches for our 10 year anniversary. A totally new website brings PrEP info to a whole new generation of PrEP users and those who could use PrEP. www.thelovetank.info/news/prepster

💊 We're Apple Podcasts top recomendation! @thelovetankcic.bsky.social @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social 🎙 Listen here now! podfollow.com/theotherblue...

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

How do we measure stigma during infectious disease outbreaks? @thelovetankcic.bsky.social worked with colleagues globally to develop a outbreak stigma scale. Reducing stigma is essential for delivering effective outbreak responses. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Want to know more about puberty-suppressing hormones (aka puberty blockers), why the supply of some of them has been banned in the UK, and critiques of the Cass Review? Find out more in our new Little Backpocket Guide - queerhealth.info/lbgt/psh

3/ Will Nutland, Co-founder and Director of @thelovetankcic.bsky.social, spoke to @wearequeeraf.com about the “significant importance” of this development, and the next steps:

1/ A new vaccine for gonorrhoea, MenB, will be made available on the NHS for those most likely to be exposed - primarily gay and bisexual men, and people who have sex with gay and bisexual men - this summer PS, this was first covered in our newsletter 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...

Why the new gonorrhoea vaccine is an incredible breakthrough, and why we need to not miss any opportunities in its implementation. @bashhuk.bsky.social @england.nhs.uk @thelovetankcic.bsky.social's @benvyle.bsky.social writes in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What an honour it was to be one of the people from my amazing team to be representing @thelovetankcic.bsky.social - connecting with orgs all over the world & learning from one another!

As a new gonorrhoea vaccine programme is launched in England, check out everything you need to know about the vaccine. Our vaccine portal includes information on all the currently available evidence to support this programme. www.queerhealth.info/projects/menb

This doesn’t start and end in clinic. The whole system is needed to ensure we realise the potential of this programme. Community partners have steadfastly called for gonorrhoea vaccine and have been laying the groundwork to inform and engage ❤️

New gonorrhoea vaccine programme announced today, along with full mpox vaccine rollout. This is a welcome and much needed investment in sexual health. We must ensure both vaccines reach those who need them including those least likely to visit sexual health services. www.thelovetank.info/news/menb

We're excited to be working with @thelovetankcic.bsky.social on the great new peer-led harm reduction programme. Find out more about it - and how to get involved - here.

In Hackney & attended chillouts this year? After a successful launch of our peer-led programme we’re looking for more queer people to help lead the way! You don’t need to be an expert to take part - bring your experience & a commitment to community care. Sign up at tinyurl.com/tltaqct

During the spring of 2015 four HIV prevention activists started building the PrEP education and activist programme, PrEPster. Ten years on, the work of PrEPster is still going strong, housed within it's mothership @thelovetankcic.bsky.social (set up by the same people). More PrEPster coming soon!

Thank you for this statement - @ukcab.bsky.social We too remain unconvinced by assurances given and are concerned by the precedent set by GSK.

Delighted to share the new Corporate Bodies podcast exploring why organisations are so weird & what we can do to make them better. Listen to the trailer here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Launching 1st May. corporatebodies.substack.com/p/corporate-...

Live, work, study or socialise in Hackney? Attend chill-outs or been to one recently? Join our new peer-led programme that makes chill-outs safer together, along with @londonfriend.bsky.social Sign up at tinyurl.com/tltaqct

haven’t shared in a while but think it’s evergreen. for @thelovetankcic.bsky.social, i developed a harm reduction resource for anabolic steroids. it’s a good thing to read if you are starting to consider using steroids (and possibly also if you already are!) www.queerhealth.info/projects/ste...

A whopping 75,000 @grindr.bsky.social users accessed our safer chill-out guide in 72 hours thanks to an on-going collaboration. Harm reduction saves lives. Read more - www.thelovetank.info/news/chillouts

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 [email protected] by 3pm on Friday 2 May. We provide bursaries to develop activities at the Love Hub :)

Spending time at chillouts? Our Little Backpocket Guide To Safer Chillouts provides essential harm reduction information. Available online in English, Spain, Portuguese, French, Italian and Polish. www.queerhealth.info/lbgt/chillouts

We are delighted to be working as a collaborator on this new doxyPEP research in the UK. Find out how to take part at doxypep.me/spear