Eugene Lynch

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Happy Lesbian Visibility Week! 🏳️‍🌈

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The continuous attack on trans people is horrendous.

The fact that the government is going along with the transphobic narrative & rhetoric and hiding behind the Supreme Court judgement is cowardly, inhumane, and incredibly disappointing.

To my trans siblings.
It's OK to be scared, to want to hide or to need to take some time to figure out what to do.

If you're a fighter then by all means fight but you're no less a part of this if what you can offer is support or you just getting through the day.

Right now living is resistance.

I am increasingly disappointed that the concerns of the #LGBTQ+ community over what the Supreme Court judgement means for them are not yet being addressed. I have written to the Government asking them to make clear how trans and non binary rights will be protected.

The Unraveling of the Global HIV Response: Interview with Chris Beyrer, M.D., M.P.H. “The concept of diversity is fundamental to the HIV response,” Beyrer said. “We're all going to have to exercise our democratic rights, particularly to stand up for adolescents, for people living with...

🆕 "The Unraveling of the Global #HIV Response: Interview with Chris Beyrer, M.D., M.P.H." via @thebodydotcom.bsky.social

The Trump administration's proposed foreign aid cuts could cause a surge in global HIV deaths & infections, according to a recent study:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

www.cbsnews.com/video/foreig...

with @LindseyReiser on @CBSNews

Drug resistance is a huge problem that we need to stay on top of.

Scientific advances have made it so many diseases that would previously kill you, are now significantly more benign.

So long as the drugs meant to treat the disease, work. If resistance develops, we all suffer.

Tina Cousins???!? 🤩😍

Mac, a yellow Labrador cross golden retriever Guide Dog in training sits with his paws folded looking towards the camera like he’s judging you

His words: “Look, I’m not judging you…”

His face:

Book, change, or cancel a COVID-19 vaccination appointment online Book, change or cancel a COVID-19 vaccination appointment online.

Booking is now open for your spring COVID booster if you’re living with HIV. Appointments start 1 April.

I booked mine for next week

www.nhs.uk/nhs-services...

Thank you

Eugene at the podium at Lib Dem Conference in Harrogate

Christine Jardine MP, spokesperson on Women & Equalities with LGBT+ Lib Dems Charley, Em and Luke

Christine Jardine MP moving the motion at conference

Charley Hasted summing up the arguments in favour of the motion

I was pleased to support a motion to reaffirm commitments on LGBTQ+ rights & healthcare

@libdems.org.uk have become the first party to adopt a policy to roll out year-round HIV and STI postal testing in England, to end the postcode lottery in accessing these services

@pluslibdems.bsky.social

Writer and Director Sean Mathias and his former partner and longstanding Terrence Higgins Trust supporter Sir Ian McKellen were kind enough to pose for a photo with Wales Volunteer Coordinator Tracey and me after the show.

The play is moving, funny, devastating and has a talented cast.

Eugene, Sir Ian, Sean and Tracey after the show

The programme/script book for Swansea Boy

Collection bucket for Terrence Higgins Trust

Board outside the Volcano Theatre showing Swansea Boy running until 29 March

Last night I was invited to Swansea Boy, a new play about love, loss and life in the era of AIDS.

The production is kindly raising money for @thtorguk through front-of-house bucket and QR code collections. Thanks to Mark Cainen for this and for inviting us to attend. ❤️

Fortunately, my HIV clinic checked my measles antibody levels at the end of 2023 (all good).

Unfortunately, this was necessary due to people not being vaccinated and the risk of outbreaks.

With my low-level viraemia and previous immune damage it made sense to check.

Absolutely no one can tell you whether a given product currently manufactured in Canada will face tariffs if it enters the United States three weeks from now.

Anyone trying is basically just guessing.

That's going to keep happening and it's decidedly sub-optimal from a business perspective.

PEPFAR, the acclaimed anti-HIV program, faces loss of funds as part of U.S. aid pause On Friday, a memorandum signed by Marco Rubio called for a 90-day cessation of foreign aid. That would likely put on hold the work of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

40 million people living with HIV

30 million on HIV treatment

20 million people’s treatment supported by PEPFAR

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Une décision judiciaire sur la PrEP et le retour au pouvoir de Donald Trump aux États-Unis pourraient limiter son accès. Ces menaces suscitent de vives inquiétudes chez les militants-es de la lutte contre le VIH. Explications.

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Photo of the masthead of MMWR from 5 June 1981

On 5 June 1981, the CDC’s Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report reported about an unusual cluster of pneumonia cases in gay men in Los Angeles: the first hint of the existence of #HIV

MMWR has existed since the 1930s. This week a Trump executive order has stopped it being published.

Health researchers alarmed as Trump administration pauses travel, communications The halt has frozen research grants, meetings and key health updates. “Everything is basically in chaos,” said one cancer researcher.

Health researchers alarmed as Trump admin pauses travel, communications

“Everything is basically in chaos. And frankly everyone is terrified. We’ve never seen anything like this. This is like a meteor just crashed into all of our cancer centers and research areas.”

Gift access: wapo.st/4jI1Wuj

11AM: How bad could the new administration be?

4PM: And Elon did that how many times?

This Denver woman received an $8,652 syphilis test Denverite reviewed her invoice and tried to understand why the syphilis test cost so much. Here's what we learned.

Nothing to see here. Just $8000 for a syphilis test. Just imagine what they would’ve charged if she needed the ever so expensive treatment (penicillin).

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Poor Cameron Diaz couldn’t last 24 hours in Surrey

At least she had a good time with Jude Law

That Jasper guy is so not worth it.

Oh! She didn’t get on the flight after all. That’s a relief

Cameron Diaz’s character has just met Jude Law’s.

I was kinda hoping both of the female leads would find themselves and be happy without a man.

I guess it’s not that kind of movie.

Sarah Parish and Kathryn Hahn are both in this movie? Awesome!

Wait!? Lindsay Lohan?!

Watching #TheHoliday for the first time ever.

First impressions 10 minutes in:
- Kate Winslet is awesome (which I already knew and is why we’re watching it in the first place)
- Bridget Jones meets Love Actually
- Daily Telegraph? Ew
- Kate Winslet could do a lot better than the guy she loves

Review of new Xmas TV:

Doctor Who 8/10
Wallace & Gromit 11/10

One thing I’ve never been able to understand is how, although England has such strict Sunday trading laws (stores over 280 sqm can sell for a maximum of 6 hours), the giant (3,900 sqm) Eataly store in the City of London is open 9am-10pm on Sunday all year round…?

Does anyone know how?

Quote on a red background stating, "... the work to fight HIV/AIDS is far from over." Attributed to H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief, Science journals.

"In naming ... lenacapavir as the 2024 #BOTY, Science acknowledges the next, but by no means final, step in the drive to fight HIV/AIDS, where the rigors of the laboratory and the needs of humanity are inseparable," writes @holdenthorp.bsky.social in this week's #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4g9kjG4

It’s hard to overstate the level of excitement in the HIV sector that this breakthrough brings.

We are about to have a twice-a-year injection that would prevent you from getting HIV.

No wonder it’s Science Magazine’s Breakthrough of the Year 2024