💉 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...

Today is #WorldTBDay. #Tuberculosis - or TB - is caused by bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis that mainly affects the lungs. Common symptoms include ❗️ Cough ❗️ Chest pains ❗️ Weight loss ❗️ Fever ❗️ Night sweats Learn more about TB 👉 bit.ly/3yYNwzx #EndTB

Funding cuts mean essential and lifesaving healthcare services and vaccinations, among other critical health issues, have shut down, leaving thousands without treatment worldwide. This isn’t just a policy change - it’s a death sentence. www.msf.org.za/news-and-res...

Looks like a once a year intramuscular Lenacapavir injection can maintain systemic drug concentrations at a level exceeding those shown to be protective in 6monthly dosed PrEP trials. 12 months protection from HIV acquisition is the potential here. 1 shot! Huge! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

USAID cuts could prompt over 500,000 HIV deaths www.dw.com/en/south-afr...