World AIDS Day arrives each December 1 with a sense of sadness, but there was cause to celebrate in British Columbia last December. That was when provincial Health Minister Adrian Dix officially declared that A IDS was no longer an epidemic in British Columbia, but an endemic concern. Accompanying Dix that day at the opening

One of the most important HIV conferences of the year, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2020) took place in the second week of March, just as many people’s attention was engulfed by the new coronavirus. You might have missed some of the key developments in HIV prevention presented at the meeting: The

SEATTLE, Washington – Though there have been multiple biomedical advances to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS in the last decade, these innovations have not been accessible to everyone. Barriers remain in the form of stigma, lack of supportive policy, a dearth of robust health systems and even more challenges unique to each country. Here

Here’s the story of one Canadian doctor who has spent decades helping the medical world turn the tide on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In 1981, AIDS was first recognized as a new disease. Caused by the HIV virus, it first presented as a strange kind of pneumonia. Doctors soon realized that although the pneumonia was treatable,

HIV/AIDS was once a death sentence but the virus is now treatable Artist Tiko Kerr pulls down a large cardboard box from a shelf in his East Vancouver studio. It’s overflowing with empty pill bottles. “These are my meds. This is what keeps me alive.” The prominent artist was nearly killed by HIV, the virus

If any heroes emerge from the COVID-19 outbreak, one of them will likely be a man widely considered one of the heroes of the AIDS epidemic – Anthony Fauci. Fauci, who has been unafraid to speak the truth about the new coronavirus strain and counter the misinformation put out by Donald Trump, has been director

HIV treatment as prevention, as measured in community-level viral suppression, was strongly associated with a large drop in the number of new HIV infections among gay and bisexual men in Australia, even before PrEP was available. This study was presented by Dr Denton Callander from the University of New South Wales yesterday at the Conference

As community viremia declined, so did the incidence of HIV infection among gay and bisexual men in a 6-year Australian study, researchers reported. The findings, presented during CROI, provide “compelling evidence that treatment as prevention can achieve population-level ‘big picture’ public health goals around reducing new cases of HIV among gay and bisexual men,” Denton

It was the early 2000s, and I was still a teenager. I wasn’t out yet. I was so angry when Billy died because I didn’t understand. Billy didn’t have to die, but he couldn’t afford the medication he needed to save his life, and he couldn’t get insurance because of discrimination against people with preexisting

Gracias a los avances en el diagnóstico y tratamiento del VIH, las personas que viven con la infección pueden llevar una vida normal y alejada del estigma. En diálogo con Infobae, la mirada de un experto La infección por VIH sigue siendo un problema de salud. A pesar de los avances de la ciencia que

HIV is a manageable chronic disease and is more preventable than ever before! From getting tested and knowing your status, to preventative options like PrEP and PEP, here are a few options to consider adding to your HIV prevention toolkit! Get Tested. Getting tested for HIV and STIs is the first step in anyone’s HIV

Are the days when LGBTQ+ communities stormed the gates of power in direct action long behind us? Some of us lived through the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, the Toronto bathhouse raids in 1981 and other global examples of resisting and fighting oppression. Then the HIV/AIDS crisis of the late ‘80s and ’90s hit: LGBTQ+ activists,