Ben (He/Him) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

‘I’m not racist, just concerned’ From Epping to Facebook groups, how fear is being repackaged and pointed downwards and never up

"currently, there’s a phrase that’s been doing a helluva lot of heavy lifting lately:

“Concerned Locals/Citizens/Communities/Residents.”"

Love moments like this. Public Enemy meets Mavis Staples ❤️

The 30th run took place on July 24, 2025. Every step I don't stop I feel better. I'm raising awareness for the National AIDS Trust. #HIVRightsCharity #TeamNAT #HIVAwareness #PLHIV www.justgiving.com/page/ben-col...

A cartoon sewage graphic with the words in the water saying: END ALL SEWAGE SPILLS IN bathing waters by 2030

Liberal Democrats will not stop campaigning until these failing water companies are held properly to account.

Mockup gift card with he Reform UK logo. Text "Reform UK Grift Card" and in handwriting "Happy 50th Birthday Liz". In small text "Expires in 45 Days". Below is the Liberal Democrats logo.

What do you get the person who wrecks everything? 💖

the space @tate.bsky.social was just so amazing for the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt. Reverential, still devastating. So many visibly moved by the art, love, compassion, and reminder of those taken far too soon. Am so glad it had this deservedly splendid showing 🙏🏼👏🏼💕 @positiveeast.bsky.social

Criticisms include concerns over women self-administering pills outside medical settings.

• Retains the 24-week time limit, requirement for two medical approvals, and penalties for providers violating regulations.
• Supported by 168 MPs and major medical bodies like the #RCOG Gynaecologists and #BPAS.

1. #NewClause1 #NC1 – Decriminalise women, not providers
- Proposed by MP Tonia Antoniazzi (Labour)
• Removes criminal liability for women terminating their own pregnancies under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act and the 1929 Infant Life Act.

Is BV an STI now? NOOO!!
@bashhuk.bsky.social #BASHH2025 thank you #DrMattPage #BVnotSTI

Women’s health and the role of genitourinary medicine (GUM) in addressing inequities in access and inequalities in outcomes
With Dame Lesley Regan
Department of Health and Social Care @bashhuk.bsky.social #BASHH2025 #healthhubs #womenshealthhubs

Informing optimal responses to STI outbreaks: pandemic preparedness work within the HPRU. Dr Tariq
Principal Clinical Research Fellow @ucl.ac.uk @bashhuk.bsky.social #BASHH2025

Great update from #UKHSAs Dr. Mohammed on the impact of the RiiSH survey #BASHH2025

Supporting the implementation of public health interventions using qualitative social science: an exploration of acceptability, barriers and facilitators to Bexsero for gonorrhoea prevention among #GSMSM. Dr Nicholls
Senior Research Fellow, @ucl.ac.uk #BASHH2025

Advancing Sexual Health Research: Key findings and future directions from the NIHR Health Protection Unit (HPRU) in Blood Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections (BBSTI) @bashhuk.bsky.social #BASHH #covid19 #mpox

So what do HPRUs do? Great introduction from Prof. Sabin #BASHH2025

What is the community approach? @bashhuk.bsky.social #BASHH2025

Neurochemistry of sex
@bashhuk.bsky.social #BASHH2025

Alternative Sex - Reframing Kink, BDSM and Non-Monogamy @bashhuk.bsky.social #BASHH2025 #kink #bdsm #nonmonogamy

@bashhuk.bsky.social #BASHH2025 #chems
Expected drug effects on the sexual event
Narrative synthesis based on systematic literature review and metanalysis of 38 studies (Sept 2018 - Jan 2020) describing chemsex use before or during sex among #MSM in high income countries

@bashhuk.bsky.social #BASHH2025 #chemsex
Why are we talking about drugs?
• High levels of drug use
• Increasing types / routes of drugs?
• Sexual risk / STI risk
• Linked to sexual assaults
• Complication and harms

@bashhuk.bsky.social #BASHH2025 #sexualwellbeing #sexualhealth
• Could a UK-wide approach be possible?
• Are there risks and how can we mitigate?
• What's the role of BASHH here?

@bashhuk.bsky.social #BASHH2025
Supporting gender questioning, transgender and non-binary people attending sexual health service #trabsgender #nonbinary

#BASHH2025 Good session talking “Supporting gender questioning, transgender and non-binary people attending sexual health services”. A good link: www.queerhealth.info/projects/lbgt

@waverleycare.bsky.social what is it like to access sexual health service as a trans person in Scotland? #BASHH2025

“In many ways, HIV saved my life”

Cahir's #HIV diganosis helped reclaim his life, and now he works as a peer mentor. "If you’re afraid of getting tested, do it. If you’re positive, I can tell you: life will go on, and it can be beautiful, full, and worth fighting for"

Read more:

nat.org.uk/about-hiv/pe...

#bashh2025 Professor Matthew Grundy Bowers with the important message that we shouldn't be limited by our background or assumptions to pursuing higher academic training...Neurodiverse learners FTW 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Preview from BASHH Fellow research on GUM workforce #BASHH2025

Look out for more on this key piece of work by Lisa in the coming months!

#BASHH2025 we’ve covered the key scientific developments in Herpes Simplex Viruses, the treatment of HSV under the law and supporting understanding post-diagnosis

Final comment from the floor about the role we play in GUM in changing the public narrative on HSV to tackle harmful stigma and shame

@bashhuk.bsky.social Professor Matt Phillips welcomed everyone to the conference and awareness of #DoxyPEP www.bashh.org/news/1686/ba... #BASHH #BASHH2025