Dr David Griffin 🦠🧫💉

Privileged to share some of my #PhD work at #HIVAIDS2024 @ASHMMedia looking at barriers to organ transplant for people with #HIV in Australia. Thanks @jennyhoy2 and @j_h_mcmahon for the guidance and pictures, collaborators, community, and participants.

#CROI2026 well and truly underway with some inspiring, and enlightening talks by leaders in #HIV medicine, activism and research. Prof. Sharon Lewin from @TheDohertyInst @AlfredMonash_ID gave the opening Bernard Fields Lecture on #HIVcure

A call for equity in organ transplantation for people with #HIV - @TheLancet thelancet.com/journals/lance… #TxIDtwitter #HIVtwitter #healthequity #SOT

@marganina @TheLancet Thanks Nina for your work and advocacy in this space, and for your leadership.

Thank you for this @TheLancet correspondence, @drdavidwjg! "...we must improve awareness among people with HIV & health-care providers of their eligibility to receive and donate organs." 💙💚 A call for equity in organ transplantation for people with HIV thelancet.com/journals/lance…

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3/ Concerns varied, with PWH worried about HIV superinfection and PWoH concerned about HIV acquisition from #SOT. The study highlights a need to improve awareness and address misconceptions about #SOT for PWH, suggesting potential for better education and policy changes.

1/ 🚨New Publication Alert🚨 Knowledge and Attitudes about Solid Organ #Transplantation for People with #HIV in #Australia: A Cross-sectional Survey of People with and without HIV #JAIDS #HIVtwitter #IDtwitter #TxID @AlfredMonash_ID @MonashUni @napwha journals.lww.com/jaids/abstract…

Pleased to present the next paper from my #PhD: Knowledge and attitudes about SOT for people with HIV among Australian healthcare providers: a cross‐sectional survey - @The_IMJ @TheRACP @AlfredMonash_ID @MonashUni onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/im…

@marganina We just had a similar paper accepted, looking at knowledge in Australian consumers with and without HIV. Knowledge disappointingly low, but some interesting insights, and research to follow.

Open access full-text: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… "These findings provide evidence that living donation is not only possible for ppl living w HIV, but also safe, potentially helping to normalize donation experience for this population & improve access to life-saving transplants."

Always love to see where my work goes (cite #15) cc @deanaruston Awareness of organ donation among people living with HIV in Canada: a cross-sectional study tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.108…

Syphilis is an infectious disease caused by Treponema pallidum, a gram-negative spirochete bacterium. This Review summarizes the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of #syphilis. ja.ma/3J4pnjU

Aspergillus fumigatus biology, immunopathogenicity and drug resistance doi.org/10.1038/s41579…

#hivaids2025 #ASRH2025

In our study, #HIV has minimal influence on organ allocation in respondents, but is a significant barrier to the selection of a potential donor, even an appropriate recipient. Organ quality was the most influential factor in selection of a prospective donor.

1/ Pleased to share results of our discrete choice experiment of the influence of HIV on organ procurement and allocation in Australia #ASHM2025 @ASHMMedia @AlfredMonash_ID #healthequity #idtwitter #hivtwitter #TxIDtwitter

@marganina @HIV_Medicine @jennyhoy2 @j_h_mcmahon Yes, thanks for highlighting! This was a good step forward. Good to see policy evolving with contemporary evidence. Hopefully some day the restrictions on donation will be lifted altogether.

@drdavidwjg @HIV_Medicine @jennyhoy2 @j_h_mcmahon It is the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act, and a helpful cite for your situational awareness (effective June 26, 2025) - liver and kidney transplants between people with HIV made standard of care. optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/professionals/…

🚨Our new review just out in @HIV_Medicine 🚨 “Solid organ transplantation in people with #HIV: Outcomes, obstacles and opportunities” #IDtwitter #HIVtwitter @jennyhoy2 @j_h_mcmahon onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hi…

Diagnostic criteria for MASLD and progression to cirrhosis - check out this 🆕 NEJM review ⭐️💡 📸: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

#OpenAccess @HIV_Medicine