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explores the public health response to the current monkeypox outbreak and its relationship to the responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis in "An epidemic of rebuttal": humanities.org.au/power-of-the-h

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What Constitutes a Family? Don’t Ask Conservatives.

Aug 31

An excellent discussion of the promises and prospects of PREP reaching gay & other msm and transgender women in Indonesia in current environment, from

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Today on the blog, @benj_hegarty reflects on an unfolding PrEP trial in Indonesia, asking what queer theories might emerge from engagement with such postcolonial contexts blog.castac.org/2022/08/prep-o

A slide projected onto a white screen with a graphic of a pill inscribed with the hashtag PrEP Works and a subcaption reading: "The time for debate on the effectiveness of PrEP is over.

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Concerned by yesterday’s discussion of the impacts of social media content moderation (and FOSTA/SESTA) on sexual health, sexworkers’ rights and sexual expression? Check out the Manifesto for Sex Positive Social Media #HIV2022 #sh2022 @ASHMMedia apo.org.au/node/319110

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If you applauded

’s shoutout to our colleagues under 30 at

@ASHMMedia

#sh2022 #HIVAIDS2022 and you would like some ‘reverse mentoring’ to help you understand contemporary sexual cultures please join our intergenerational panel after lunch tomorrow in Miyama 2 1/2

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Discussion around PLHIV experience with disclosing their HIV status to potential sexual partners and their experience of rejection and discrimination, to which how they managed this navigating sexual partners.

Fantastic plenary talk by

@ToddFernando

outlining experiences, obstacles, achievements of queer, trans, feminist First Nations people across educational, sexual/health and advocacy settings #hivaids2022

Thank you to

for publishing this op-ed that I wrote with

@esfreeman3655

on the importance of defending and expanding queer kinship for everyone, LGBTQ+ or not.

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Conservatives are developing legislation around “the basic social building block of the family.” The right to kinship in whatever form it takes is on the line.

A great article mentioned by Professor Marsha Rosengarten in a presentation on the limits of evidence for what cannot be known in advance, specifically

@AndrewGrulich

's comments. amp.smh.com.au/national/nsw/u #HIVAIDS2022 #SH2022

discussing evidence-making and futurity in infectious disease responses - we can learn with what we know while acknowledging we don’t have a god’s eye view of what will transpire... e.g. COVID’s unexpected effects on HIV-related practices #HIVAIDS2022 #SH2022

I have heard there were ‘pop-up’ vaccine clinics in some sex venues over the weekend (good) and that more doses may be coming soon (also good) but the only way to prevent this outbreak getting worse is through a widespread vaccine rollout, and we don’t have one.

Can you name this conference goodie? #ASRHDay2022

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Chief Health Officer, Victoria

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Aug 28

Please remind me - what’s the point of Kyle Sandilands? If you can’t say something constructive, maybe keep quiet?

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Final speaker is

on U=U and ‘Undetectabilities”. Kane says U=U has “desexualised” HIV prevention and reframed success as being a matter of engagement in care. The work of prevention becomes contingent on clinical goals #HIVAIDS2022 #SH2022

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An outstanding presentation by

and something all of us who champion #UequalsU need to listen to and appreciate

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Fantastic talk. U=U is an epidemiologically effective intervention but morally flawed. HIV transmission can't and should not be construed to be a responsibility of non-suppressed PLWH

Now sure my eyes have ever welled up at the end of a conference opening plenary. A very moving talk by Kane Race.

And now a discussion of the “paradoxes of undetectable identity.” One brilliant line: “You become ‘undetectable’ by being detected as such.” And: “Undetectability is not a thing, but a performative ensemble of repeated relations.”

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on “Undetectabilities,” first delineating critiques of treatment-as-prevention (TasP) as a public health strategy and the global Undetectable=Untransmittable (U=U) campaign. #SH2022 #HIVAIDS2022

at the #HIVAIDS2022 #SH2022 discussing the global U=U campaign as a lure to bring about desired changes in treatment & prevention, blurring the boundaries of biomedicine and community activism, countering stigma & ‘solving everything’ (for those who can achieve UVL)

Monkeypox: what we know and what we need to learn

Kirby Institute, UNSW

@KirbyInstitute

Aug 26

The recording of our special #monkeypox #mpx webinar "Monkeypox: what we know and what we need to learn" is now available.

Monkeypox (MPX) has arrived in Australia, and strategies are urgently needed to curb its spread. While Australia has secured some third-generation smallpox v...

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If I contracted MPX today I’d need to isolate for 2-4 weeks but I’m a casual worker living week to week. We NEED an MPX iso payment so people don’t need to choose between food and rent and their health

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@MacgibbonJames

Aug 24

We need your help! Please share this new survey on monkeypox for gay, bi & queer people who live in Australia. The survey assesses #monkeypox concern, behavioural change and willingness to be vaccinated. unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8q

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@reluctantlyjoe

Aug 22

Getting an infectious disease is never your fault. Humans cannot live risk-free lives and viruses and their statistics confound logic. We do the best we can for ourselves and each other. We care for ourselves and each other when we fall sick. Simple.

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On the conditions of a queer art and party scenes’ flourishing, as well as its contraction and decline. I belatedly reviewed Fiona Kelly McGregor’s brilliant essay collection ‘Buried Not Dead’ for the

@SydReviewBooks

sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/mcgrego

Incredible new resource about queer community activism and practices of care during #COVID19 via

@TheLoveTankCIC

@BiomedSelfSoc

; check it out:

queerhealth.info

The Wrap — QueerHealth

Looking forward to presenting some of my doctoral research on performance and image-enhancing drugs at VSURF this Friday! Details below:

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Victorian Substance Use Research Forum

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· Aug 9

Looking forward to our next seminar, 4 pm Friday 19 August. @gemma_nourse will present her current research on understandings of performance and image-enhancing drugs articulated in health promotion materials and by relevant health professionals. Details: bstanceuseresearchforum.wordpress.com

Monkeypox in Australia Over the last 2 years it has become common to refer to the covid-19 pandemic as an ‘unprecedented’ event – the first major epidemic of ‘our lifetimes’. I have hear…

Aug 16

all the threads related to this thread threaded together here

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An EPIDEMIC of REBUTTAL

Another #monkeypox post from me! If you're interested in why some people think #Monkeypox is an STI and others don't, why not come along to an online even

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and I are running on the 22nd? Free to attend with some wonderful speakers

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Is Monkeypox a Sexually Transmitted Infection?

Key international experts will discuss whether monkeypox is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) and the many responses to this question.

WHO warns of new pandemic after 5 new variants of Scott Morrison were detected over the weekend

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🧵5) Reaping and sewing 🧵🪝

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In stark contrast to the shameful legacies of the Reagan and Thatcher administrations, the Australian response to HIV/AIDS is internationally acclaimed for pursuing a different, far more effective strategy.

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🧵4) Australia lately…

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As with other global epidemics, the tyranny of distance and the seasonal lag between the Northern and Southern summer have so far worked to our advantage.

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Aug 15

A swift, focused response on the part of affected communities, organisations and experts well-versed in Australia’s partnership approach should let the Reaper rest in the ground a good while longer. Time to get sewing.

Far less deadly, but more easily transmitted through close physical contact, the Australian monkeypox emergency should not require us to resurrect that Grim figure.