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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉

@drdavidwjg.bsky.social
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👨🏼‍🎓BSc, MBBS, MPH, FRACP👨🏼‍⚕️ Infectious Diseases Doc, PhD Candidate. Interests: #HIV, #BBV, #TxID, #IPC, #Vaccines #IDSky #HIVSky Auch auf Deutsch verfügbar. 🇦🇺🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈 he/him

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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
3/ The study highlights a need to improve awareness and address misconceptions about organ transplantation for PWH, suggesting potential for better education and policy changes.
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
2/ #PWH were less likely to believe they could receive or donate organs compared to #PWoH. Despite this, PWH showed a higher willingness to be deceased donors. Concerns varied, with PWH worried about HIV superinfection and PWoH concerned about HIV acquisition from organ transplants.
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
1/ 🚨Recent #PhD publication🚨 Knowledge and Attitudes about Solid Organ #Transplantation for People with HIV in Australia: A Cross-sectional Survey of People with and without #HIV #SOT #TxID #IDSky #TxIDSky #healthequity journals.lww.com/jaids/abstra...
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Thanks Tristan! 🙌🏼
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Our recent correspondence in #lancet: “We must improve awareness among people with #HIV and health-care providers of their eligibility to receive and donate organs…we must ensure that equity is a non-negotiable standard.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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A call for equity in organ transplantation for people with HIV
The Lancet Series on solid organ transplantation is a timely call to advance global equity and highlights the importance of ensuring those who might benefit from solid organ transplantation have fair ...
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🚨New Publication🚨 Great to see this #PhD publication out. Knowledge and attitudes about #SOT for people with #HIV among Australian healthcare providers: a cross‐sectional survey onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Thanks to the participants and collaborators for #IDSky #HIVsky #TxIDSky
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Knowledge and attitudes about solid organ transplantation for people with human immunodeficiency virus among Australian healthcare providers: a cross‐sectional survey
Background People with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (PWH) are experiencing a normalisation in life expectancy, but with an increasing burden of chronic comorbidities and end-stage organ diseas.....
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
2/ #HIV has minimal influence on organ allocation in respondents, but is a significant barrier to the selection of a potential donor, even an appropriate recipient. Organ quality was the most influential factor in selection of a prospective donor.
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Pleased to share results of our discrete choice experiment of the influence of HIV on organ procurement and allocation in Australia #HIVAIDS2025 #healthequity #IDsky #HIVsky #TxIDsky #PhD
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🚨Review just out in @hivmedicine.bsky.social 🚨 “Solid organ transplantation in people with #HIV: Outcomes, obstacles and opportunities” #IDSky #HIVSky #TxIDSky ft. David Ruschena, Prof. James McMahon, Prof. Jenny Hoy doi.org/10.1111/hiv....
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Solid organ transplantation in people with HIV: Outcomes, obstacles and opportunities
Objective People with HIV experience disparate access to solid organ transplantation (SOT), despite mounting evidence for comparable outcomes. This review aims to understand the outcomes following S...
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Important #latebreaker study at #CROI2025 SCORPIO-PEP phase III RCT showed ensitrelvir (Day 1: 375mg, Day 2-5: 125mg) reduced PCR positive, symptomatic #COVID19 in HHC if started w/in 72 hrs of index case symptomatic C19 by 67%. Including in those with high risk progression. Need ICH and RACF data!
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
#CROI2025 Published today: #Pharmacokinetics and safety of once-yearly lenacapavir: a phase 1, open-label study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Great to see truly “long acting” therapies for HIV and PrEP emerging. the bar for #HIV #vaccines is ever higher!
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Pharmacokinetics and safety of once-yearly lenacapavir: a phase 1, open-label study
Following administration of once-yearly intramuscular lenacapavir, median plasma concentrations exceeded those associated with efficacy in phase 3 studies of twice-yearly subcutaneous lenacapavir for ...
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Juan Michael Porter II @juanmichaelii.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Calling Our Patients “High Risk” Hurts Them "Being called risky or associated w risk b/c of your sexual health decisions makes most people feel ashamed. And that shame is nothing more than another barrier to care. " A banger op-ed by @jncherabiemd.bsky.social www.thebodypro.com/hiv/calling-...
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JAMA @jama.com · 28/11/2024
Cervical cancer mortality in US women younger than 25 years significantly declined between 2016 and 2021, likely due to the widespread adoption of HPV vaccination. ja.ma/4i9ghPC
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
100% There was some really interesting data presented at #CROI2024 which explored racial disparities in the lifetime risk of acquiring HIV and highlighted some of those issues of intersectionality. www.aidsmap.com/news/mar-202... #HIVsky #IDsky
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Progress in reducing new HIV diagnoses much slower for Black men in the US
Lifetime risk of acquiring HIV has decreased for Black gay and bisexual men in the US, from 1 in 2 from 2010 to 2014 to 1 in 3 from 2017 to 2021, according to data presented to the Conference on Retro...
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Ten Americas: a systematic analysis of life expectancy disparities in the USA - @thelancet.bsky.social Somber update on the 8 Americas study; highlights growing inequities in life expectancy, impact of structural racism and disproportionate impact of #COVID19 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Dr Eloise Williams gave an important update confirmatory testing for #HIV in Australia. #MicroSky #HIVsky #IDsky #HIVinFocus - Use of accredited NAAT in diagnostics (cf monitoring) on separate sample to initial serology - p24 Ag immunoassay (no longer available) - (traditional) western blot
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Vikas Parwani from HIV/AIDS Legal Center shares a brief insight into immigration to Aus for #PWH. Immigration exempt from discrimination laws that protect #PWH. #HIV can be barrier due to perceived cost, but opportunities for ‘health waiver’ exist. HIV not the only barrier #PWH face. #HIVinFocus
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
None, though I don’t have many people on injectables at this stage. I think more will be inclined to switch, once LAI are Q6M, or can be self administered. (LEN + ? 👀) Frequent clinical attendance and frequent injections seem major deterrents. Cab-LA not yet funded as PrEP here either.
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A/Prof. Mina John from Royal Perth Hospital, presents Western Australian data on implementation LAI ART in hard to reach populations, mirroring #UCSF data; improved retention in care and virological suppression. Multiple other benefits. #HIVsky #IDsky
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
👍🏼 Same! (Plus Simva-, and Pravastatin, thou not sure why anyone would use these preferentially…) We have: Rosuvastatin 5-40mg Atorvastatin 10-80mg I typically start with rosuvastatin 10mg, unless pt on boosted PI (then typically half)
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Do you have access to pitavastatin?
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Interesting! We use www.cvdcheck.org.au/calculator which is based on the NZ PREDICT-1° equation. I mostly use it in conversations about risk and impact of risk factor modification (eg smoking cessation). None of our calculators incorporate HIV, ART, etc, and likely underestimate risk.
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Australian cardiovascular disease risk calculator | AusCVDRisk
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
3/ #HIVinFocus International guidelines recommend implementing the #Reprievestudy findings with different thresholds of #CVD risk statin therapy. Australian guidance most closely aligns with the EACS recommendation.
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
2/ Australian CVD risk calculators typically assign a lower risk to #PWH than AHA/ACC score. International guidelines recommend implementing this evidence differently.
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A/Prof Janine Trevillyan from #AustinHealth describes the challenges of applying the #REPRIEVEstudy in Australia; we don’t have pitavastatin and use different risk calculators. #IDsky #HIVsky Atorva- and rosuvastatin reduce surrogates of CVD risk, though choosing ideal biomarker can be challenging.
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
6/ #REPRIEVEstudy also highlighted that #CVD risk calculators tend to overestimate CVD risk in developing countries, but underestimate risk in women.
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
5/ #REPRIEVEstudy showed that statins were safe (pitavastatin was chosen because it doesn’t interact with PIs), with a non-sig trend towards incident #diabetes, though glycaemic control was curiously unchanged.
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
4/ #REPRIEVEstudy demonstrated definitively that statins reduce CVD risk in people with #HIV 35% with low to moderate #ASCVD risk at baseline.
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
3/ mechanistically statins reduce CVD risk through several mechanisms; LDL lowering, plaque stabilization, dampening inflammation. Interestingly #REPRIEVEstudy proteomic analysis suggested PCOLCE may be important in pitavastatin impact on collagen deposition.
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
2/ importance of identifying and addressing lifestyle factors, social and psychological determinants of health to reduce #CVD risk
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Day 2 #HIVinFocus Prof. Currier from #UCLA offering insights into CVD risk in #PWH. First, association between clonal hematopoiesis and #CVD risk in #HIV demonstrated in several cohorts.
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#HIVsky #IDsky Remember cystatin C as an alternative to creatinine for estimating renal function in people with HIV with elevated creatinine on INSTI and/or cobicistat. - nephrologist, Dr Nichita GAVRILESCU #HIVinFocus
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Great talk by Endocrinologist A/Prof. Priya Sumithran at #HIVinFocus symposium. - weight loss is an uphill battle - pharmacological management available with additional health benefits - questions remain about functional impact of muscle loss - meds only work while taking them! #IDsky #HIVsky
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Prof. Jenny Hoy, summarises ART and weight gain at #HIVinFocus symposium at Alfred Health. #HIVSky
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
As a Melburnian, I had no idea VIDRL performed this assay. Not surprised though, they seem to have PCRs for everything!
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Todd Gleeson, MD, MPH @toddgleeson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Lower-cost versions of the #HIV prevention drug lenacapavir to be made available in 120 low- & middle-income countries. #IDSky #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #PrEP www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘Gamechanger’ HIV prevention drug to be made available cheaply in 120 countries
Gilead Sciences announces deal to manufacture generic versions of lenacapavir, but critics say it excludes many countries where incidence is highest
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
One can try to slice the data however they will, but the ⬇️ in morbidity, mortality and incidence of several infectious diseases due to #vaccination is irrefutable. We’ve seen time and again, the consequences of disruption of immunisation programs (e.g. MMR in Samoa), and ⬇️ in herd immunity #IDsky
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Allen Cheng @peripatetical.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Allen Yung's Golden Rules of ID. Copied over from the Other Place for @kottonnelson.bsky.social #IDSky
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Similar to @paulsaxmd.bsky.social, I recall a pt with documented negative serology 18 months prior to first ADI. Rapidity of progression is associated with virologic set point, the immune response to HIV, and a list of host and viral factors.
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Agreed. With #CMV, do we think the risk of #IFI is a direct effect of the virus (eg through IL-10 homolog, etc), a reflection of the net state of immunosuppression, or both? #IDsky #TxIDSky
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Great point! We often advocate for a unifying diagnosis (Occam’s razor), but in people with immunocompromise, it’s important not to disregard Hickam’s dictum; “Patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please!” #Medsky #IDSky #TxIDSky
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Interesting take in @nytimes.com Most of us know that the individual and #publichealth benefits of #vaccines are irrefutable, but we must take the opportunity to communicate differently about vaccines; listen, learn, and leverage #RFKs skepticism for good. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...
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Opinion | Can America’s Health Survive Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?
What Kennedy gets right.
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Thanks, Carly! ☀️
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Welcome! Come one, come all.
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Super pleased to receive an award for our research on barriers to #SOT for people with #HIV among clinicians and consumers in Australia. #IDSky #HIVSky #HealthEquity
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Y’all are going to need some infectious diseases experts #IDSky Starter Packs IDSky 1 go.bsky.app/LnAQjdq IDSky 2 go.bsky.app/JNfSvQT IDSky 3 go.bsky.app/FeogT7o IDSky 4 go.bsky.app/D1zxj4E IDSky 5 go.bsky.app/NgGSPeF IDSky 6 go.bsky.app/22VBL8z #MedSky
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a man in a lab coat says no reason in front of a wall of cards
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Yeah, I’d rather not have billion/trillionaires trying to exert unbridled influence over what I and others think. Hi Friend! 🫶🏼
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Thanks! That’s a great resource. 👍🏼 Glad to be included 🥳
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Rolling out the Quebecois red carpet! Merci!
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David Griffin 🦠🧫💉 @drdavidwjg.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
👋🏼👋🏼
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