Harm reduction reading group meeting
The Harm Reduction Group welcomes Dr Benjamin Weil from The Love Tank CIC to discuss the use of Doxy PrEP/PEP (the use of doxycycline to avoid STIs) for chemsex. Doxy PrEP/PEP offers the same possibility as HIV PrEP/PEP, but for the sexual transmission of bacterial infections - yet there is a degree of hesitance about the tool. In this talk, the speaker will take this critical moment to appraise a technology-in-the-making and consider how and whether we might discursively or clinically intervene in its reception and uptake.
The speaker will explore the tension between research, activism, and lived experiences. In advance of the meeting, attendees are encouraged to read ‘What a skewed sense of values’: Discussing PreP in the British Press.
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Dr Benjamin Weil, Queer Drugs and Alcohol Programme Coordinator, The Love Tank CIC
Dr Benjamin Weil is a writer and researcher, working in public health promotion at The Love Tank CIC, where they are the Queer Drugs and Alcohol Programme Coordinator. They hold a PhD from the Science and Technology Studies Department at UCL, where they researched blood donor activism in the UK.
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