The Love Tank CIC

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.

Want to know more about prostate pleasure and health?

Check out our newest Little Back Pocket Guide, produced in collaboration with @prostatecanceruk.bsky.social

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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.

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

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!

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 .

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

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/...

The Other Blue Pill The phenomenal story of the battle for access to HIV prevention drug PrEP in the UK, told in six parts.

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 👇🧵

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.

We're developing a collaborative roadmap for people who are DIYing HRT.

Find out more here -
www.thelovetank.info/news/diyhrtc...

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. 

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...

Happy birthday! x

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 .

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

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.

The Love Tank urges continued mpox vaccination uptake as new European cases identified.

www.thelovetank.info/news/mpox

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

OPPORTUNITIES FOR Black LGBTQIA+ writers Paid wearequeeraf.com/pitch Write an article for QueerAF’s UK Black History Month series, with guest editor Phil Samba First round deadline Sep 28th. Final deadline Oct 5th 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...

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...

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...

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!

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🥰

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.

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

Work with me, @drwilln.bsky.social & @thelovetankcic.bsky.social team to explore health activism

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. 

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

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.

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New research demonstrates acceptability of injectable HIV PrEP amongst key UK populations.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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 minifigs

Me from behind, still bald, still wearing a black Prepster t-shirt. The back reads 10 years of educating and advocating for PrEP

I absolutely love my new Prepster t-shirt from @thelovetankcic.bsky.social crew!

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

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.

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...

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

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.

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

2025 World AIDS Day RED RUN - PrEPster Help Michael Marks raise money to support Positive East

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!

NHS begins rollout of world-first gonorrhoea vaccine programme NHS and local authorities begin rollout of world-first gonorrhoea vaccination programme across the country.

“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...