John Cameron has been giving back to his community for more than four decades – doing everything from running support groups for people with AIDS, organizing awareness events and just driving people to medical appointments. Cameron said he was “one of the lucky ones” to survive full-blown AIDS and hepatitis B – thanks to his

What’s New in the Guidelines? Antiretroviral Therapy to Prevent Sexual Transmission of HIV (Treatment as Prevention) Clinical trials have shown that using effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) to consistently suppress plasma HIV RNA levels to

Use of the HIV prevention drug is associated with lower levels of anxiety about contracting HIV. But for gay men who remember AIDS, the specter of HIV is a hard ghost to shake. When HIV first tore into America’s gay male community in the early 1980s, quotidian questions of sex, love, lust and trust transformed

A recent Australian study found that gay couples’ agreements regarding casual sex outside their relationships have changed markedly in the era of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Nearly 40% of PrEP users in relationships had agreements that allowed for condomless sex with casual partners. Additionally, 34% of PrEP users engaged in condomless casual sex despite being in

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told an audience of mostly legislative aides to members of Congress at a Dec. 5 congressional briefing on Capitol Hill that scientific advances have made it possible to end the HIV epidemic in the United States within the next decade if not

Two recent US studies find growing awareness and acceptability of the Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) message among men who have sex with men (MSM). However, a misunderstanding of transmission risk remains, with many still believing that HIV-positive partners can transmit the virus sexually, despite having an undetectable viral load. While over half of a large

The virus was once seen as a death sentence. But life has changed for those diagnosed in the UK – and one of the biggest remaining problems is social attitudes When Claire Horn went for a sexual health check in April 2005, the last thing she expected was to be diagnosed with HIV. She was

With a disproportionate number of black cisgender women in the U.S. becoming HIV positive, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) are sharing critical health information through an atypical venue: the emergency room. The randomized controlled trial, which includes a risk assessment and a “warm handoff” to community clinics, is

Today B.C. pats itself on the back for progress its made on HIV/AIDS, but Vancouver’s ground-breaking work emerged from a crisis A little more than 20 years after Vancouver became known internationally as the city with the “highest HIV-infection rate in the Western World,” the provincial government has said B.C. now “nears the end of

TORONTO — Twenty-two years ago, when Scott Gary Major was first diagnosed with HIV, public opinion surrounding the disease in Canada was distorted with homophobia, misinformation and fear. Things have improved since then. Less people are “afraid of me,” he told CTV News. HIV-AIDS is no longer an automatic death sentence, and Major says that

‘The strategy that we pioneered in B.C. … has been extremely successful,’ says Dr. Julio Montaner The annual number of new HIV cases diagnosed in B.C. is expected to hit a new record low this year, in more than two decades of record-keeping, said HIV/AIDS research pioneer Dr. Julio Montaner. The lowest number to date

VICTORIA – The British Columbia government says the number of new annual HIV cases has reached a record low. The Health Ministry says in a news release on Sunday, World AIDS Day, that there were 208 new cases of the virus in 2018, a steady decline from 437 cases in 2004. It attributes much of

B.C.’s health ministry used Sunday’s World AIDS Day to announce the number of new annual HIV cases has fallen to a record low in the province. Health Minister Adrian Dix made the announcement at the opening of a new research laboratory in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside dedicated to combating and eventually eliminating the deadly virus, which

On the occasion of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, 2019, British Columbia marks record-low cases of HIV and AIDS as the crisis transitions from epidemic to chronic disease management. “As we commemorate World AIDS Day, it’s important to look to the progress we have made against a formidable disease,” said Adrian Dix, Minister of

VANCOUVER — “AIDS is no longer an epidemic in B.C.” That landmark declaration was made by Dr. Julio Montaner Sunday at his newly renovated lab on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Montaner is the executive director and physician-in-chief of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, credited with helping to dramatically reduce the number of new infections

The British Columbia government says the number of new annual HIV cases has reached a record low. The Health Ministry says in a news release on Sunday, World AIDS Day, that there were 208 new cases of the virus in 2018, a steady decline from 437 cases in 2004. It attributes much of the decline

193 countries committed to deliver on the promises enshrined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), one of which is to end AIDS by 2030. Target to end AIDS by 2030 is also enlisted in India’s National Health Policy (NHP 2017). “Only 133 months are left to meet these targets. To end AIDS, we need

Since 2012, new cases of HIV infection in San Francisco have decreased by more than 50%. Moreover, almost three-fourths of people living with HIV in San Francisco are virally suppressed. Despite these gains, sizable disparities exist for people experiencing homelessness, who make up 1% of the city’s population, yet accounted for 14% of new HIV