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Emily Evans

@emilyevs.bsky.social
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ID fellow at Emory University. Interested in HIV and opportunistic infections. Aspiring brothmonger and quirky artist

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Standing in solidarity with colleagues at the CDC who were fired as part of yet another RIF wave. We are all less safe without their expertise and dedication.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
In the State of Georgia, it is now easier to buy a gun than it is to get a COVID booster vaccine. Pretty crazy stuff.
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
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RFK JR: I'm looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation-you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection

TEXAS "MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN" LEGISLATION
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Health & Human Services Secretary
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Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
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The Lancet Primary Care @lancetprimarycare.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🆕In their Comment, @emilyevs.bsky.social ‬and @boghuma.bsky.social discuss the new Article published by Ned Latham and Colleagues on fully vaccinated individuals with mpox in NSW, Australia Read here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Protection that lasts? MVA-BN against clade IIb mpox
Clade IIb monkeypox virus infection was first declared a public health emergency of international concern in 2022. The global outbreak was largely driven by sexual transmission, primarily among men wh...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/04/2025
The spread of measles in the Southwest now constitutes the largest single outbreak since the U.S. declared the disease eliminated in 2000, federal scientists told state officials in a meeting on Monday.
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Measles Surge in Southwest Is Now the Largest Single Outbreak Since 2000
Growing case numbers suggest that national total will surpass that seen during the last large outbreak in 2019.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Even when we’re cast as villains, those of us working in infectious diseases still have a vital role to play. In this reflection, I share how I’m continuing to show up for patients, for public health, and for the next generation even when it’s hard. open.substack.com/pub/bktitanj...
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This Is How I Keep Showing Up
A infectious diseases physician’s reflections on trust, defiance, and public health in a time of outrage
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
What a great piece by @arstechnica.com: "This moment calls out for moral clarity and resolve. It asks universities to take their mission in society seriously and to resist being co-opted by government forces." arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
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Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be.
Opinion: It’s time for public resistance.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Beside measles outbreaks, we are likely to see resurgence of: - HIV - Tuberculosis - STIs (Syphilis, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea) - A worse flu season - other vaccine preventable diseases. Because that's what happens when you gut public health, defund research and promote vaccine misinformation.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
he did this just *after* going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl. he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
RFK Jr. Guts Teams That Share Health Information With the Public. The health secretary had promised “radical transparency,” but fired communications teams in the Health and Human Services Department, by @maggieastor.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/w... via @nytimes.com #infodemic #journalism
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Kennedy Guts Teams That Share Health Information With the Public
The health secretary had promised “radical transparency,” but fired communications teams in the Health and Human Services Department.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 06/04/2025
We expected hundreds of thousands of people yesterday. Instead, millions of Americans flooded the streets to demand an end to Trump’s authoritarian power grab. Trump and Musk have spent their first 75 days in office trying to overwhelm us and make us feel powerless, but we’re not going anywhere.
A photo from Indivisible Santa Barbara on Instagram. Thousands of people stand together on the beach in a way that spells “HANDS OFF!”
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Emily Evans @emilyevs.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Atlanta showed up in a big way yesterday. Love this city 💜
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Dr. D Boulware, MD MPH @drboulware.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
PEPFAR accomplishments to date
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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
News from #CROI2025: Two more people appear to be free of HIV after stem cell transplants for cancer treatment. If these men remain in remission, they will be the 8th & 9th known cases of a functional cure after the procedure. www.poz.com/article/two-...
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Two More People May Be Cured of HIV After Stem Cell Transplants
One experienced viral rebound after an initial treatment interruption but remains in remission after stopping antiretrovirals a second time.
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HIVMA @hivma.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
At the Save Our Sciences Rally for HIV Research! Past HIVMA Chair, Carlos del Rio @docdelrio.bsky.social , applauded the role of NIH in making the U.S. a leader in biomedical research and a major driver of economies and the importance of reauthorizing the lifesaving PEPFAR program.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Global Toll of US Tuberculosis Funding Cuts Grim results of a modeling study on what US funding cuts to TB projects might mean TB deaths are projected to increase by 99,800 (minimal impact scenario), 268,600 (moderate impact), and 2,243,700 (worst case scenario) www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 06/03/2025
The Stand Up For Science rallies are tomorrow! With the attacks on science, this seems more important than ever. See how you can participate: standupforscience2025.org
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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The global fund will roll out twice yearly Lenacapavir for prevention of HIV with or without #PEPFAR. Now the US contributes 30% of the global fund donations which is likely to disappear. Still important the fund is not backing away from this commitment 👏🏼. bhekisisa.org/health-news-...
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The Global Fund will roll out the twice-yearly anti-HIV jab — with or without Pepfar - Bhekisisa
The major backer of the lenacapavir roll-out is assuring nervous researchers that they will keep their part of funding promises. It’s a good economic investment, says the Fund’s Peter Sands, into a ga...
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IAS - the International AIDS Society @iasociety.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🌍 "Early impacts of the #PEPFAR stop-work order: a rapid assessment" 📰 Check out these new field notes in the Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) and join the call to #SavePEPFAR!
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<em>Journal of the International AIDS Society</em> | IAS HIV Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the article title to read more.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is remarkable. The last of 8 patients who tested positive for Ebola Sudan has been discharged. Now the 42 day count down to this outbreak being officially declared over is on. Only 1 fatality is a remarkable feat.🤞 Kudos to front line responders in #Uganda www.independent.co.uk/news/ebola-u...
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Uganda discharges the last Ebola patients. No new deaths from the contagious virus reported
Uganda health authorities say they discharged the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The global South is leading in keeping us all safe. 1.Rwanda &Tanzania contained marburg outbreaks 2.Uganda is fighting Ebola 3. DRC is fighting #mpox Knowledge can flow from the global South to North. With CDC EIS gutted, consider Africa CDC's AES www.globalsouthopportunities.com/2025/02/17/a...
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Africa CDC Call for Applications: The African Epidemic Service Program 2025 (AES) - Empowering Africa's Public Health Workforce - Global South Opportunities
In an increasingly interconnected world, the rapid spread of disease can pose significant challenges to public health systems. The African continent, with its
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Apoorv Suresh @apoorvsuresh.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The Trump administration’s sweeping actions—withdrawal from WHO, halting USAID, freezing Medicaid funds, and crippling the NIH & CDC—are an assault on global & public health Read The Lancet's Editorial @thelancet.bsky.social #health #who #us #nih #cdc #globalhealth #publichealth #usaid #trump
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Dr. D Boulware, MD MPH @drboulware.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
While there is general concern, WHO has stepped up in the interim to fill the gap left by US abandoning biodefense role that US has historically supported. Realizing that we live in an interconnected world. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/som...
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As Trump shuts down USAID missions, officials warn Ebola outbreak in Uganda will spread
Americans are among those exposed to the virus in Uganda.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"Don't give in to cynicism or apathy. That's what the people promulgating these horrible policies want - a bored, indifferent public who figures that who cares, nothing matters any more, it's gonna happen no matter what...Never forget that: it doesn't have to happen" www.science.org/content/blog...
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What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Imagine going to your doctor and being told the treatment plan for whatever ails you has to align with an executive order of the President.This is where we are headed. The banner now adorning the CDC website pages on various treatment guidelines is most sinister.
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Censor CDC scientists and ask them to withdraw papers from medical journals? This is not how it works, Mr President. Our response @bmj.com on the Trump Executive Order and his "forbidden words" www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
1. The #WHO does immense good in global public health. 2. The #WHO needs reform 3. US Support of the #WHO is essential and withdrawal of its support and membership from the organization is detrimental 4. The #WHO will survive without the US as will global health. All of these statements are true.
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Pranay Sinha @tbtakenseriously.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The richest man in the world wants us to stop feeding the poorest in the world.
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Emily Evans @emilyevs.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
While our public health institutions are muted by the people who are supposed to protect us and as we pull out of international organizations dedicated to preventing deadly outbreaks- diseases themselves play by their own rules… www.statnews.com/2025/02/01/u...
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WHO says 6 contacts of Ugandan Ebola patient are ill, vaccination efforts could begin Sunday
Test results on the sick people are pending, and a top WHO official said the outbreak response is proceeding rapidly.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling. It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks. Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
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Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article)
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
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PIDS @pidsociety.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Data sets relating to issues like diversity, reproductive health, climate are disappearing from the CDC website. #IDSky www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
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CDC Purging Its Website After Trump Orders
Agency removed certain pages related to gender issues, HIV, and that said 'pregnant people'
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Emily Evans @emilyevs.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
ID folks don't forget to register for the Member's Advocacy Program through IDSA and "Take Action" with letters to representatives and of course... call! (even for us phone shy girlies I promise it's not that bad) idsociety.quorum.us/home_page/
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Infectious Diseases Society of America
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Emily Evans @emilyevs.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Measles outbreak in Atlanta while current HHS nominee has propagated vaccine hesitancy - a lethal ideology and health institutions such as CDC/NIH are on a communication freeze. Just because politics ignore public health threats doesn't mean they stop happening.... dph.georgia.gov/press-releas...
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DPH Confirms Measles Case in Metro Atlanta - MMR Vaccine is Safe and Effective in Preventing Measles
The DPH has confirmed a measles case in an unvaccinated metro Atlanta resident.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Keep speaking up because it matters. Call out inhumane policies that will kill people. PEPFAR funded HIV drug distribution resumes...for now. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/h...
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State Department Permits Distribution of H.I.V. Medications to Resume — for Now (Gift Article)
Experts fear a resurgence of infections in low-income countries if the ban were to continue. The waiver remains in place, while officials review foreign aid programs.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
In 1993 HIV was the leading cause of death in the United States of people aged 25-44. It took: 📌Funding research 📌Fighting stigma 📌Promoting equity for access to testing and treatment to reverse the tide. Anti-science & anti public health policies could reverse this www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...
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Update: Mortality Attributable to HIV Infection Among Persons Aged 25-44 Years -- United States, 1994
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The risk of bird flu continues to rise as it spreads in herds &flock around the country. This is the absolute worst time for health communications the CDC to be muzzled. If we have another pandemic we will be even more vulnerable than the last time around. #h5n1 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Will bird flu spark a human pandemic? Scientists say the risk is rising
H5N1 is adapting to new mammal hosts, raising the possibility of the virus spreading between humans.
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IAS - the International AIDS Society @iasociety.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“This is a matter of life or death. #PEPFAR provides lifesaving antiretrovirals for more than 20 million people — and stopping its funding essentially stops their #HIV treatment. If that happens, people are going to die and HIV will resurge.” - IAS President Beatriz Grinsztejn, via @cnn.com
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US freezes almost all foreign aid effective immediately | CNN Politics
The US State Department has frozen nearly all foreign assistance worldwide effective immediately days after President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order Monday to put a hold on such assist...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Please read this thread from Dr. Atul Gawande who previously led USAID global health under president Biden's administration. Every day that goes by with USAID activities paused is impacting millions around the globe negatively. Many will die as a direct result.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
- Halt of all US foreign aid for 90 days - A stop-work order worldwide even for existing and appropriated assistance. All effective immediately! US foreign aid is just as important for America as it is for the countries that receive the aid. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump administration memo tells USAID: Put 'America First'
The Trump administration urged U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) workers to join the effort to transform how Washington allocates aid around the world in line with Trump’s “America First” policy. It threatened "disciplinary action" for any staff ignoring the administration's orders.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/01/2025
Breaking News: Colombia’s president said the country wouldn’t allow deportation flights from the U.S. until President Trump provides a process that treats migrants with “dignity and respect.”
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Colombia Will Not Accept U.S. Deportation Flights, President Petro Says
Gustavo Petro said on X that the United States should not treat Colombian migrants as criminals and needs to establish a dignified protocol before his country will allow their return.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
If RFK Jr. were to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), his dangerous views could undermine decades of public health progress. Here’s why his beliefs are harmful. His confirmation hearing is this week. Let your senators know he cannot lead HHS His beliefs are dangerous 🧵
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Wendy Fujita @wendyfujita.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Inaugural post on Bluesky: my first time attending on our Special Immunology Service for PWH at Grady with star ID fellow @emilyevs.bsky.social and stellar IM residents!
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
An outbreak of avian yet unknown cause has been flagged in the #DRC. So far 143 people have died. Symptoms are flu like symptoms and severe headaches ( basically most viral infections can present like this). Hoping we get confirmation of the etiology quickly. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Unknown disease kills 143 people in south-west DRC, local authorities say
Infected people described as having flu-like symptoms including high fever and severe headaches
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
PURPOSE-2 results are now published. It demonstrates high level effectiveness of twice a year Lenacapavir for HIV prevention in Men and gender diverse persons. An important milestone for long acting injectables for PrEP. Now we need to address the issue of access. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Twice-Yearly Lenacapavir for HIV Prevention in Men and Gender-Diverse Persons | NEJM
Twice-yearly subcutaneous lenacapavir has been shown to be efficacious for prevention of HIV infection in cisgender women. The efficacy of lenacapavir for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in cisgende...
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