- 🧵: the availability of new injectable formulations of PrEP is going to be enormously difference-making in our collective mission to tackle HIV inequities. more people than ever before will be able to use medications that are essentially 100% effective at preventing HIV. /1
- it is an immense privilege that there is broad support in the UK for this kind of roll-out. these days, whenever we celebrate an advancement in health technology like this, i cannot help but think about the wider context in which they are emerging. /2
- the grim reality of fascism, regressive racism, virulent transphobia, and widespread anti-immigrant sentiment; all of these will - not just threaten to - undermine any achievements we stand to make in HIV equity. /3
- these ideologies drive people away from the care they need, strip them of it, render them afraid and unaware. the kinds of conditions that viruses thrive within. /4
- worse still, a reform government may (or: will) eventually use these realities as arguments that shore up the need for strong borders. they will say migrants bring infection to our country, instead of the truth: that it is our country that places them at risk. it is our country who is sick. /5
- the right folks will keep advocating that HIV justice work - health justice work in general - is anti-racist, pro-trans, pro-migrant. but this needs to be much more widespread a sentiment. /6Oct 17, 2025 08:57
