John McSorley
@johnmcsorley10
Sexual Health & HIV. #LoveGUM Doctor. @BASHH_UK Past President He/Him European Island Life 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇪🏳️🌈
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Remco Peters World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that the burden of curable STIs remains enormous and we have had almost no progress over ~2 decades. Contrast to HIV where we have seen transformative treatments and care delivery emerge over the same time period.
Full house at the World Health Organization (WHO) session on “Mobilize for action on #STIs” at #IUSTI2024
We haven't moved on much in terms of tackling #stigma associated with #STIs & the barriers this creates to improving STI control. This poster from 1937 highlighted by Nicola Low #EveryDayCounts #StillFBPE wouldn't look out of place today #IUSTI2024
🚨Kicking off today. #IUSTI2024 Sydney with World Health Organization (WHO) Mobilizing for #STI (sexually transmitted infections) in pillars of 📢 Innovation 📢 Political commitment 📢 Community engagement Follow for updates International Union against STIs Michael Marks Prof Andrew Grulich Ismaël Maatouk
This morning, World Health Organization (WHO) had a joint IAS-IUSTI-WHO session in #HIVAIDS2024 #IUSTI2024 ASHM on “Mobilize for action on #STIs” Three critical accelerators were discussed with framing session and panelists from different geographic and expertise backgrounds: - innovation -
Does screening for curable #STIs among #PregnantWomen reduce #PretermBirth and #LowBirthWeight? Randomised trials essential to address policy-relevant questions. In #PapuaNewGuinea, intervention didn’t reduce the outcome. More trials needed #IUSTI2024 Lisa Vallely
Yesterday marked the start of the first in person STI Prevention Conference since 2018. My top highlight was seeing 100+ people join the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association early career networking event. A great reminder of the importance of supporting early career folks & that the #STI field is so friendly
Our new paper out in BJOG showing COVID-19 vax is v safe 💉 We observed 500,000 women in the UK who had COVID-19 vaccine in pregnancy and found NO increased risk of stillbirth, neonatal death, perinatal death and maternal venous thromboembolism. obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…
Could community-wide #azithromycin reduce adverse birth and reproductive outcomes and curable #STIs in #Fiji? Lucia Romani describes a new non-randomised trial I have questions
In🇨🇭Geneva this week I visited 🇺🇳 UNAIDS Global to meet with 🇺🇳 United Nations Under Secretary General Winnie Byanyima and 🇺🇳 Unitaid to meet with Executive Director Dr Philippe Duneton 🇬🇧 Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office welcomes the important work the 🇺🇳 UNAIDS Global & 🇺🇳 Unitaid teams are doing around the world 🌎