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The Love Tank CIC

@thelovetankcic.bsky.social
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We're a London, UK based non-profit promoting health + wellbeing of underserved communities. We’re the muther-ship of PrEPster, Queer Health, Queers Beyond Borders, & Long Time No Syph. www.thelovetank.info

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The shower curtain of syphilis! :)
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The eighth of The Love Tank's ‘Little Back Pocket Guide’ launches today with a new guide on Safer Sex Work. The guide provides information about physical, mental and sexual health; boundaries, consent and safety; the law; and navigating finances. www.thelovetank.info/news/lbgtssw
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Sex work safety and solidarity — The Love Tank CIC
The eighth of The Love Tank's Little Back Pocket Guide launches today with a new guide on Safer Sex Work.
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The 8th annual Love Hub programme just released - 21 events across 7 days, as part of @fringefilmfest.bsky.social www.thelovetank.info/news/lovehub26
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The Love Tank presents The Love Hub 2026 festival programme — The Love Tank CIC
The Love Tank’s The Love Hub – in partnership with Fringe! Film Festival – announces its 2026 programme, with 21 free events held across seven days.
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Michael Marks @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Delighted to see our special issue of Sexually Transmitted Diseases featuring a large number of outputs arising from the 2025 Shanghai International Syphilis Symposium & related work. Lots of great work & insights on the recent scientific progress. @typemat12.bsky.social @thelovetankcic.bsky.social
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August 2026 - Volume 53 - Issue 8 : Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Discover the August 2026 issue of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Volume 53, featuring peer-reviewed articles, case studies, and the latest research findings.
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A new roadmap to navigating DIY HRT launches today. In response to growing shifts in HRT provision, the roadmap provides practical tips on navigating HRT access, along with information on harm reduction & safer use, legal rights, & effects HRT can have on the body. www.thelovetank.info/news/diyhrt
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Community-generated DIY HRT roadmap launched — The Love Tank CIC
A new roadmap to navigating do-it-yourself (DIY)  hormone replacement therapy (HRT) launches today - produced by and with trans and non-binary communities across the UK.
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We're recruiting two London, UK based Programme Coordinators: Health Equity. Closing date: 17 August 2026. www.thelovetank.info/vacancies/pc...
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Work with us - PCHER — The Love Tank CIC
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We're recruiting two London, UK based Programme Coordinators: Health Equity. Closing date: 17 August 2026. www.thelovetank.info/vacancies/pche
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Work with us - PCHE — The Love Tank CIC
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We're recruiting a London, UK based Programme Manager: Health Equity. Closing date: 29 July 2026. www.thelovetank.info/vacancies/pmhe
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Work with us - PMHE — The Love Tank CIC
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We're recruiting a London, UK based Programme Manager: Community Mobilisation and Outreach. Closing date: 29 July 2026. www.thelovetank.info/vacancies/pm...
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Work with us - PMCMO — The Love Tank CIC
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Owen Blacker @owen.blacker.me.uk · 12/06/2026
Given the obscene anti-scientific bullshit being peddled by the NHS about trans young people, it seems like a good moment to remind people that @thelovetankcic.bsky.social have awesome pocket guides Including this Guide to Puberty-Suppressing Hormones, which DIY advice www.queerhealth.info/lbgt/psh
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Puberty-suppressing hormones — QueerHealth
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Regular attendees of sexual health clinics are very good at being vaccinated. But HPV vaccine uptake is lower in people who missed early-adult programmes or who aren't connected to NHS services. Our new HPV guide with North East London Cancer Alliance launches today. www.thelovetank.info/news/hpv
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HPV and queer communities: all you need to know — The Love Tank CIC
The Love Tank launches a new information programme for queer people today about the human papilloma virus (HPV) and the vaccinations available to protect against it.
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PrEP Drug Interactions @prepinteractions.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We have added DoxyPEP to the PrEP drug interaction checker. 👉 prep-druginteractions.org DoxyPEP can be used after condomless sex to help prevent syphilis and chlamydia. @thelovetankcic.bsky.social do a great guide on using DoxyPEP 👉 www.queerhealth.info/projects/dox...
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Doing it in the dark: new darkroom etiquette guide launched. The guide is based on research conducted by Dr Jamie Hakim and the experience of generations of darkroom users. www.thelovetank.info/news/darkroom
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Doing it in the dark: new Darkroom Etiquette Guide launched — The Love Tank CIC
A new guide to using darkrooms – spaces in clubs, venues or parties where sex can happen – is published today by The Love Tank, in collaboration with Dr Jamie Hakim from King's College London.&nb...
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Which sexual health vaccines can I get on the NHS right now? Find out from All In - a brand new programme from The Love Tank. @bashhuk.bsky.social @bhiva.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social @nhsenglandldn.bsky.social www.queerhealth.info/projects/vac...
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ALL IN: Which sexual health vaccines can I get on the NHS right now? — QueerHealth
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The Love Tank's founding programme - PrEPster - re-launches one of our original info sources: Know About HIV PrEP. The newest edition includes info on injectable PrEP, new ways to start and stop PrEP, and info on new UK guidance. Download and view below. www.thelovetank.info/news/kahp-bo...
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Keeping on top of HIV PrEP changes: new information resources launched — The Love Tank CIC
The Love Tank’s founding programme - PrEPster - re-launches one of its original information sources ‘Know About HIV PrEP’ to bring PrEP information right up-to-date.
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Creating organising spaces for queer South Asian communities in London - read more here. www.thelovetank.info/news/hum
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HUM: Queer South Asian Mela creates organising space — The Love Tank CIC
60 mobilisers, artists, and activists, gathered in Bethnal Green to participate in sessions with The Love Tank’s outreach team providing STI testing, information, and advice for Queer South Asian peop...
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New community-based research conducted in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets highlights on-going and pressing needs. We call for the implementation of key recommendations to improve the health and well-being of trans communities by a range of stakeholders. www.thelovetank.info/news/tna
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Tower Hamlets trans needs: new research calls for action — The Love Tank CIC
New community-based research, developed in collaboration with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and The Love Tank, highlights the on-going and pressing needs of trans communities within the eas...
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Michael Marks @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Apply by 11th May to do a PhD @lshtm.bsky.social Work with epidemiologists, social scientists & modellers to understand quality of life measures in Syphilis and develop evidence on cost-effectiveness of interventions & public health strategies. @thelovetankcic.bsky.social @joetucker.bsky.social
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2026-27 NIHR UK Syphilis Research Scholarship | LSHTM
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is pleased to invite applications for a 3-year full-time PhD studentship, starting in September 2026.The award will cover a tax-free stipend
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Want to know more about prostate pleasure and health? Check out our newest Little Back Pocket Guide, produced in collaboration with @prostatecanceruk.bsky.social www.thelovetank.info/news/lbgt-pr...
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Guide to prostate pleasure and health launched  — The Love Tank CIC
In a brand-new collaboration with Prostate Cancer UK (PCUK), The Love Tank has launched the latest in the Little Pack Pocket Guide To series, with a guide on prostate pleasure and health.
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Mpox diagnoses in the UK increased in January 2026. Vaccination is available through routine NHS sexual health appointments for eligible groups. @bashhuk.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social @england.nhs.uk www.thelovetank.info/news/mpoxfeb26
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MPOX cases increasing: new data from UKHSA — The Love Tank CIC
New figures from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) released today show a sharp increase in the numbers of MPOX cases diagnosed (formerly known as monkeypox) in the UK.
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London Friend @londonfriend.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We loved the opportunity to work with the brilliant team @thelovetankcic.bsky.social to produce these new harm reduction resources to support our work and peer outreach. Check them out here!
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Our recent research shows queer people want more accessible harm reduction information about club drugs. This new work in partnership with Antidote at @londonfriend.bsky.social is a step towards implementing the findings of our community-based research. www.thelovetank.info/news/sdc4all
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New harm reduction materials for queer clubbers launched — The Love Tank CIC
New harm reduction information on five of the most commonly used club drugs has been launched in a partnership between The Love Tank and Antidote at London Friend .
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The UK's gonorrhoea vaccine launch risks perpetuating health inequalities writes @thelovetankcic.bsky.social's @drwilln.bsky.social @benvyle.bsky.social with Jack Haywood and @johnmcsorley.bsky.social in the @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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Public health lessons in equity for the United Kingdom’s gonorrhoea vaccine launch
Rollout of the gonorrhoea vaccination programme in the UK is potentially game changing, but in its current form it risks perpetuating health inequalities, argue Jack Haywood and colleagues In August...
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 01/12/2025
Have you heard about The Other Blue Pill?  Our documentary - produced for @thelovetankcic.bsky.social and @nat.org.uk - explores the history of PrEP in the UK and how it changed HIV prevention #WorldAIDSDay 🎗️ Listen now 👇🧵
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The Other Blue Pill
The phenomenal story of the battle for access to HIV prevention drug PrEP in the UK, told in six parts.
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
We're developing a collaborative roadmap for people who are DIYing HRT. Find out more here - www.thelovetank.info/news/diyhrtc...
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The DIY HRT cafe is open! — The Love Tank CIC
The Love Tank  is running two community knowledge generation events - titled the DIY HRT cafe - to inform a new roadmap for trans people who are self-sourcing hormones.
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We're launching a new HIV training programme for primary care staff in Lambeth, Lewisham, & Southwark. The programme aims to increase awareness of contemporary HIV issues and ensure practitioners are able to make appropriate referrals. www.thelovetank.info/news/hiv-tra...
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HIV and PrEP training for South London primary care staff — The Love Tank CIC
The Love Tank  is launching a new HIV awareness and prevention training programme for primary care staff in Lambeth, Lewisham, and Southwark. 
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Food for thought: hosting HIV PrEP research dinners. "Hosting dinners like this for Black queer men is a valuable way of including perspectives & creating spaces for us to freely talk about sexual health." @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social @benvyle.bsky.social www.thelovetank.info/news/bqmdin
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Food for thought: The Love Tank hosts HIV PrEP research dinners — The Love Tank CIC
The Love Tank  is hosting community-based dinners to better understand the HIV PrEP needs of Black queer men, in a research collaboration with the  University of Durham .
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The Love Tank urges continued mpox vaccination uptake as new European cases identified. www.thelovetank.info/news/mpox
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The Love Tank urges mpox vaccination uptake as new European cases identified — The Love Tank CIC
The Love Tank  joins other organisations in calling for uptake of mpox vaccinations (formerly called monkeypox) as new cases are identified in Europe and the USA.
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
NHS England announces availability of long acting injectable PrEP. The new formulation will be available only to those who cannot take oral PrEP. Around 1,000 people are expected to initially benefit. www.thelovetank.info/news/injecta...
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Introduction of injectable HIV PrEP opens up access — The Love Tank CIC
PrEPster  at  The Love Tank  welcomes today's announcement by NHS England that long acting injectable HIV PrEP will be made available on the NHS.
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
In North East London and want to sign up to the new online HIV PrEP service? Join one of our multilingual online sessions to take you through the sign-up process. www.thelovetank.info/news/prepwor...
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Multilingual online HIV PrEP sessions launcheD — The Love Tank CIC
The Love Tank's  HIV PrEP programme -  PrEPster  - launches five new multilingual online information sessions during October, to assist with enrolment into new London online PrEP servic...
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Ingrid Young @ingridkyoung.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
was really pleased to be invited to be a part of this celebration :) Can't quite believe it's 10 years. Huge congrats to the whole team! @drwilln.bsky.social Marc, Rich & the rest! @thelovetankcic.bsky.social
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 22/09/2025
✊🏿 Paid opportunities for Black LGBTQIA+ writers and journalists! The @thelovetankcic.bsky.social Phil Samba @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social is joining @WeAreQueerAF.com as our Black History Month UK guest editor Details in 🧵 or apply now 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/black-histor...
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Celebrating 10 years of PrEPster last week - with allies and comrades @ingridkyoung.bsky.social Winnie Sseruma @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social Marc Thompson and many others. www.thelovetank.info/news/prepste...
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PrEPster celebrates 10 years of educating and agitating for PrEP — The Love Tank CIC
In an often emotional and touching event, the first 10 years of the HIV PrEP programme –  PrEPster  – was celebrated as part of  The Love Tank’s  Love Hub activities last Friday 19...
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METRO Charity @metrocharity.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Get free information on the gonorrhoea and MPOX vaccine, and DoxyPEP this #SexualHealthWeek! 💉 Our Pitstop Clinic team have a fantastic selection of free guides and resources, giving you all the up to date information you need, kindly provided by our friends at @thelovetankcic.bsky.social!
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Eddy - edftmxxx🏳️‍⚧️ @edftmxxx.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I'm doing the World AIDS Day Red Run in November to raise money for Prepster and @thelovetankcic.bsky.social! Donate to my JustGiving page here: www.justgiving.com/page/edftmxxx Any and all donations appreciated🥰
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Love Hub 2025 programme is live! This year we're celebrating our SEVENTH Hub in collaboration with @fringefilmfest.bsky.social with a bumper 30 events. Full programme here - www.thelovetank.info/news/lovehub25
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Love Hub turns 7! — The Love Tank CIC
The Love Tank’s  Love Hub – in partnership with Fringe! Film Festival – today announces its most ambitious programme of free activities and events.
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Ingrid Young @ingridkyoung.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Work with me, @drwilln.bsky.social & @thelovetankcic.bsky.social team to explore health activism
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
What are the drug & alcohol needs of queer people in the UK? The Love Tank's new research - undertaken by @benvyle.bsky.social - highlights key action-for-change. www.thelovetank.info/news/dareport
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New research highlights drug and alcohol needs of UK queer communities — The Love Tank CIC
New research from  The Love Tank  highlights the complex and on-going drug and alcohol needs of key queer communities in the UK. 
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Exciting new post-doc fellow post just announced at University of Edinburgh - working alongside The Love Tank on the new Medicine Without Doctors collaboration. Closing date 02 Oct 2025. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Postdoctoral Fellow LGBTQ
The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a 5-year postdoctoral Fellow to work on the Wellcome funded Discovery Award Medici...
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
New research demonstrates acceptability of injectable HIV PrEP amongst key UK populations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Owen Blacker @owen.blacker.me.uk · 11/08/2025
I absolutely love my new Prepster t-shirt from @thelovetankcic.bsky.social crew!
Me, a bald white dude with an unkempt greying beard, wearing a black t-shirt with the Prepster logo. Become be is a Progress Pride flag, a trans pride flag, a trans pride banner, a Welsh flag and some Lego minifigsMe from behind, still bald, still wearing a black Prepster t-shirt. The back reads 10 years of educating and advocating for PrEP
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
There's a new way to get HIV PrEP in North East London, without having to visit a clinic. The new online service provides all the necessary tests and support, with PrEP delivered to your address. Find out more here - www.prepster.info/free-prep-ne... @positiveeast.bsky.social
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
It's been a while since we featured our www.longtimenosyph.info programme - and now comrades in Tbilisi, Georgia have translated our materials for use there. Why duplicate when we can collaborate? Massive solidarity to the work they're doing there.
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Imagining Palestinian Futures - @ingridkyoung.bsky.social our colleague in the collaborative Doing Disability Futures project, writes about how violence in Palestine is inextricably tied to disability justice. www.disabilityfutures.uk/blog/ddf03
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Imagining Palestinian Futures — Doing Disability Futures
Ingrid Young writes on the importance to be reminded of how the violence in Palestine done in the name of settler-colonialism - a long-standing system of oppression – is inextricably tied to disabilit...
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Attending UK Black Pride this coming weekend in London? For the 4th year running we'll be co-hosting a pop-up vaccine bus with NHS colleagues from All East and Homerton sexual health services. Come find us! @england.nhs.uk @bashhuk.bsky.social www.thelovetank.info/news/ukbp
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Vaccines into bodies at UKBP — The Love Tank CIC
The Love Tank  joins forces with east London NHS sexual health clinics to provide sexual health vaccinations at UK Black Pride.
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Michael Marks @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I'm going to be doing a 10K run for charity later this year on World AIDS day raising money for @thelovetankcic.bsky.social a fabulous UK sexual health community organisation. Any and all donations to a very worthwhile cause gratefully received!
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2025 World AIDS Day RED RUN - PrEPster
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
“The vaccination programme takes us one step closer to reducing one of the most common STIs; one that impacts on key groups of people. We must now ensure that vaccines reach those groups, including people who are least likely to visit clinics." @drwilln.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/n...
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NHS begins rollout of world-first gonorrhoea vaccine programme
NHS and local authorities begin rollout of world-first gonorrhoea vaccination programme across the country.
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A new gonorrhoea vaccination programme launches today across the UK. Vaccination is being rolled-out across NHS sexual health clinics. Find out more about the vaccine here - www.queerhealth.info/projects/menb @bashhuk.bsky.social @england.nhs.uk @ukhsa.bsky.social
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Michael Marks @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Nothing better than talking syphilis! Thanks @ukhsa.bsky.social @thelovetankcic.bsky.social @typemat12.bsky.social @nicolelieberman.bsky.social @manikkohli.bsky.social & others who came to kick off my NIHR Professorship. Looking forward to working with you & communities to improve UK Sexual Health
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 25/07/2025
"This silencing work – which is patently and cruelly transphobic – significantly undermines the value and applicability of the guidance’s proposed HIV education" - Ben Weil, @thelovetankcic.bsky.social www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2...
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RSE guidance is “patently and cruelly transphobic” - community responds to ‘Section 28 2.0’ curriculum
It has taken a "trans exclusionary" approach and received widespread condemnation from the LGBTQIA+ community
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