“If Black women were affected by HIV in the same way that White women were, the new HIV cases among Black women would be down by 93 percent.” Raniyah Copeland, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Black AIDS Institute, has devoted her career to furthering the conversation around HIV/AIDs and the Black community. Today

HIV-prevention pills are now available at 1,227 government health facilities around the country. While far from the 100% target, this is a substantial improvement on the roughly 160 facilities that provided the pills six months ago. In February 2020, the national department of health told Spotlight that it aimed to make a pill to prevent

Life-saving initiatives will provide pharmaceutical-grade medication as alternative to toxic illegal drug supply during COVID-19 outbreak and beyond February 1, 2021 | Vancouver, BC | Health Canada The overdose crisis continues to be one of the most serious public health crises in Canada’s recent history. Tragically, in many communities, the COVID-19 outbreak is worsening this

Life-saving initiatives will provide pharmaceutical-grade medication as alternative to toxic illegal drug supply during COVID-19 outbreak and beyond February 1, 2021 | Vancouver, BC | Health Canada The overdose crisis continues to be one of the most serious public health crises in Canada’s recent history. Tragically, in many communities, the COVID-19 outbreak is worsening this

The federal government is providing more than $15 million over the next four years to create four safer drug supply projects for people at risk of overdoses in British Columbia. The projects will provide pharmaceutical-grade medication as an alternative to the toxic illegal opioid supply currently in circulation, in an attempt to reduce illicit drug

Dozens of African countries have made limited progress and are unlikely to meet UNAIDS targets for HIV testing and condom use by 2030, researchers reported at the HIV Research for Prevention virtual conference. Phuong Nguyen, a PhD candidate at St. Luke’s International University Graduate School of Public Health in Tokyo, and colleagues assessed survey data

Dozens of African countries have made limited progress and are unlikely to meet UNAIDS targets for HIV testing and condom use by 2030, researchers reported at the HIV Research for Prevention virtual conference. Phuong Nguyen, a PhD candidate at St. Luke’s International University Graduate School of Public Health in Tokyo, and colleagues assessed survey data

Research from specialist HIV prevention and treatment clinics for female sex workers in Nairobi has found that the number testing positive for HIV dropped by more than two-thirds between 2008 and 2017. While no single intervention can be identified as to the underlying cause in the decreasing numbers, it suggests that increasing HIV awareness, testing

Research from specialist HIV prevention and treatment clinics for female sex workers in Nairobi has found that the number testing positive for HIV dropped by more than two-thirds between 2008 and 2017. While no single intervention can be identified as to the underlying cause in the decreasing numbers, it suggests that increasing HIV awareness, testing

Dramatic declines in HIV diagnoses in San Francisco have been attributed to testing, treatment and PrEP, but the declining Black population in the city is an unexamined factor, Dr Jade Pagkas-Bather of the University of Chicago and colleagues argue in the December issue of The Lancet HIV. There has been a 22% fall in San