🇲🇿 Mozambique launched #lenacapavir for #HIV #PrEP (#LEN) today, clubofmozambique.com/news/mozambi.... For the latest on the rollout of LEN visit #PrEPWatch at, www.prepwatch.org.

Ending #HIV requires research in and with South Africa www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... (free access with website registration) @thelancet.com

Cheers Belfast, you’ve been grand!

Cheers Belfast, you’ve been grand!

Lancet HIV: Ending HIV requires research in and with South Africa Danielle Giovenco et al bit.ly/48OqFsI

@lstmnews.bsky.social goes #MicroSoc! Phase separation between bacteriologists and virologists is an artifact just for the picture 😊 @microbiologysociety.org

How we might be able to target the viral Nef protein to improve #HIVcure strategy efficacy - very much enjoyed presenting in the Virus Forum at this year’s #microsoc26 @microbiologysociety.org @lstmnews.bsky.social #HIV #virology #PhD

Arrived in Belfast by ferry for #microbio26 to add some discussion on #HIVcure to the virus forums @microbiologysociety.org @lstmnews.bsky.social 🦠

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

Very pleased to see this work published. We analysed the oral microbiomes of children with noma and found that previously uncharacterised Treponema bacteria were both prevalent and highly abundant. journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Today on International Women's Day 2026, we spoke to inspiring women in science from Nigeria to Spain, Sudan to Australia all about resilience, leadership & breaking barriers 👩‍🔬🔬 Read more here: https://microb.io/40GxXKC #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #WomenInScience

HIV-1 Vpr does more than degrade cellular proteins! Johanna and Carlos dug deeper and found that Vpr activates the transcription factor NFAT to reprogram T cells. Nearly half of Vpr-deregulated genes were NFAT-controlled, and NFAT inhibition eased Vpr-induced G2 arrest and reduced HIV-1 replication.

BREAKING: We reached a settlement that requires the Trump administration to permanently maintain medical research that had been erased on a government website. The government doesn't get to censor science.

As of 17 December, a total of 1283 attacks on health care – on facilities, staff, patients, supplies and ambulances – have been reported during the year, causing 1980 deaths and 1163 injuries among health workers and patients. Health care is NEVER a target.

Last month, my team had the great pleasure of hosting a fantastic guest PhD student, Bridget Fisher, from Sharon Lewin's lab at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, for our collaborative work on #HIVCure. Looking fwd to continuing this exciting joint study. Very well done Bridget!

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

This World AIDS Day, we remember the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lost to HIV and AIDS, and those living with HIV today. We must remind ourselves and each other that the fight isn’t over until the epidemic is over for everyone.

Funded PhD opportunity through the DiMeN DTP: studying HEV proteolysis. You’ll be primarily based in the Herod lab at Leeds, and work with us on the use of MS-based proteomics to study proteolysis! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... ".., despite a circular from ... National Department of Health, Dr Sandile Buthelezi, greenlighting six-month ART dispensation for eligible patients in February 2025, no facilities were officially implementing this strategy..."

Had an excellent time at this year’s #RetroPATH2025 meeting in Tübingen, Germany, talking about my work on #HIVcure. Many thanks to @agschindler.bsky.social and Daniel Sauter for hosting. Especially interesting was the variety of talks on #HERVs @goffinetlab.bsky.social @lstmnews.bsky.social

Flossie Wong-Staal, née Wong Yee Ching, 黄以静, was a virologist and molecular biologist who was the first to molecularly clone HIV. She also created a map of its genes, which was crucial to proving that HIV causes AIDS. Read more and subscribe: adalovelaceday.subst...

💉 SA plans to roll out the twice-a-year anti #HIV shot, #LEN, in 2026. To end #Aids, we need millions of people on it. Can our health system track who’s getting & staying on it? Find out. #EndAIDS #PrEP bhekisisa.org/health-news-...

👀Good thread on some very good news, for some countries, on #lenacapavir for #HIV PrEP, and what remains to be done to ensure affordable access for all.⬇️

📣 Infect-Net Lecture: Virologist Prof. Dr. Christine Goffinet from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine will talk about #HIV and #MPox 📅 Sep 18, 2025 🕑 1 pm 📌 Max von Pettenkofer Institut Munich Host: PD Dr. Hanna-Mari Baldauf @baldauflab.bsky.social @lstmnews.bsky.social @goffinetlab.bsky.social

Proud of Wales for this super response to the appearance of St George flags everywhere. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

I wrote about how much progress African countries have made in containing these outbreaks when they emerge and keeping the world safe while doing so. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Many thanks Prof Henry Mwandumba and Prof Kondwani Jambo & teams for the warm welcome and hospitality at Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme, Blantyre. We had fantastic discussions and developed prospects for collaboration on #HIVCure. A truly inspiring visit!

HIV-1 manipulates CD96 on CD4+ T cells to subvert antiviral immunity www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (open access) #HIV

This is how outbreak response should go: fast, transparent, and actionable. Ebola will continue to spill over into humans. So will other viruses, some new, some old. Having this response capacity is what controls outbreaks, stops epidemics, & saves lives.

Very honoured to have visited the MLW Centre in Blantyre, Malawi to discuss #HIVcure. It was inspiring to hear about the research conducted by the teams of Prof. Jambo and Prof. Mwandumba - looking forward to building strong research partnerships @goffinetlab.bsky.social @lstmnews.bsky.social

Real world effects of funding cuts. #TB #HIV #hepatitis #vaccines all being hit. #GlobalHealth will slide backwards… and it will happen quickly. @who.int @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social #PEPFAR #CDC #USAID 🧪

"For transgender and gender-diverse adolescents, gender-affirming health care is not optional—it is lifesaving. This is not rhetoric; it is evidence-based medicine." Powerful piece on the "Moral Injury of Denying Gender-Affirming Care" published in JAMA Pediatrics. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Happy Monday (and Happy September!) ! We hope you had a fantastic summer! Our next LINE seminar is coming up on the 10th of September at UCL! Don't miss out on @nellymak.bsky.social and Baptiste Pradel's brilliant talks! Register here: shorturl.at/jDMUn

Giraffes, long considered a single species, are in fact four. https://scim.ag/4n2po6f

Amidst all the daily bad news, here is some good news to lift up your week! Botswana eliminates paediatric HIV www.nature.com/articles/d44...

We had a great time hosting three college students - Sadie, Chloe and Isobel - as part of the In2STEM programme with Dr Kelly Johnston. With @dylanpostmus.bsky.social, they learned about our work in #HIVCure, drug development pipelines and assay design. Check out the programme here: in2scienceuk.org

Thanks for coming to our #LINEsymposium2025! What a great day! Congratulations to the winners of our attendees' vote for best presentation and poster: @wjbranchett.bsky.social @immun0liver.bsky.social @ziqizhou.bsky.social @dylanpostmus.bsky.social (With live captions for all to enjoy!)

Straight to the poster flash talks ⚡️: Baptiste Pradel (@crick.ac.uk) @dylanpostmus.bsky.social (@lstmnews.bsky.social) Felix Scharte (@mrclmb.bsky.social) Jack Mellors (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social)!

Pumped to be at the @crick.ac.uk today to present a flash talk and poster from my PhD work on #HIVcure in the @goffinetlab.bsky.social at the @londoninfectionecr.bsky.social symposium

Had a great time co-hosting this year’s @pintofscience.uk #pint25 in Liverpool, organised by @lstmnews.bsky.social, featuring scorpion venom, vaccines and some global health slam poetry from @jenniesuz.bsky.social 🧪🍺

Very excited to co-host this year’s Pint Of Science in Liverpool all about venom, vaccines and activism, organised by @lstmnews.bsky.social @pintofscience.uk #pint25

A new study published in The Lancet Global Health forecasts a significant rise in resistance to Dolutegravir, the cornerstone of HIV treatment in South Africa, potentially threatening progress made in controlling the epidemic. Read more at the gem - issuu.com/the.gem/docs...

Uganda stopped a Sudan Ebola virus outbreak in under 3 months. No chaos. Just fast action, local leadership, and a rapidly implemented vaccine trial. Maybe the problem isn’t capacity in Africa after all—maybe it’s the story we keep telling about it. open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj...

This will be a great ECR infection symposium on the 9th of June! Don't forget to sign up! (It's free! 🤓) It's also not too late to submit abstracts for talks or posters, we've just extended the deadline! ⏬️

What an honour to be back home in SA 🇿🇦 presenting my PhD work in the @goffinetlab.bsky.social on optimising #HIVcure strategies at the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social #KSHIV25 meeting. Met some of my heroes and talented future collaborators - truly a source of hope in difficult times!

An inspiring meeting #KSHIV25 in Durban ends. Great presentation by @dylanpostmus.bsky.social on why many LRAs for #HIVCure are imperfect. A pleasure meeting the next promising generation of African ECRs, speaking to old friends and making new ones. Plus the daily sunrise over Indian Ocean!

Beyond excited to be back in my home country 🇿🇦 to attend the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social meeting on #HIVcure, with the chance to talk about my work at @goffinetlab.bsky.social @lstmnews.bsky.social. #HIV #defeatHIV

Many thanks to @microbiologysociety.org for the opportunity to present my work on modeling latent HIV-1 infection in the @goffinetlab.bsky.social at this year’s #MicroBio25. Always so much to learn at this conference!

It's #WorldTBDay. To ensure quick diagnosis and early treatment, WHO recommends the use of rapid molecular #tuberculosis (TB) tests as the initial diagnostic test for all persons with signs and symptoms of TB. Learn more about TB 👉 bit.ly/3yYNwzx #EndTB

Exclusive from me and Jon Cohen @science.org: NIH is terminating nearly 1000 grants in a series of batches. One, which conducts HIV and TB clinical trials in South Africa, was labelled as a "DEI" study that "harms the health of Americans." www.science.org/content/arti...