Treatment as Prevention¨

The UNAIDS Prevention gap report shows that HIV prevention efforts must be reinvigorated if the world is to stay on the Fast-Track to ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. To achieve the global Fast-Track Target of reducing the number of new HIV infections to fewer than 500 000 by 2020, more political commitment and increased […]

When I have anal sex, I’m always a top, and I usually use condoms, even after being on Truvada (tenofovir/FTC) for two years. There are several reasons for this, but HIV isn’t one. PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) and, just as important, treatment as prevention (TasP) and the undetectable status have freed me from concerns about contracting

Today is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. On this observance day, we encourage gay men to speak out about their experiences of living with, or being affected by, HIV. At AIDS.gov, we’ve been proud to share these stories. Through our Positive Spin digital tool, we’ve featured the real stories of gay black men who

Julio Montaner y Pedro Cahn, ex presidentes de la Sociedad Mundial de SIDA, pasaron por Conversaciones para hablar del panorama actual de estas enfermedades infecciosas, en el contexto del Simposio organizado por la Fundación HuŽsped Julio Montaner and Pedro Cahn, former Presidents of the World AIDS society, went for talks to discuss the current landscape

Strategy Aims to Reverse Transmission Rates in High-Risk Communities HIV Treatment as Prevention (TasP) is an evidence-based approach by which persons with an undetectable viral load are far less likely to transmit the virus to an uninfected (or untreated) partner. While TasP was initially seen as an advocacy tool when first introduced in 2006 (by

Gay and bi men who use PrEP often do not use condoms and are at risk for sexually transmitted infections as well as HIV, suggesting that those men who seek PrEP are the ones who need it most, recent data show. “Seeing a correlation between high rates of [sexually transmitted diseases] and PrEP use is

Take one pill a day to save your life. This should be easy to do right? You go to the doctor. You get on treatment. You take your medicine every day. You stay healthy and thriving. For those who are HIV positive, you are working towards that goal of being undetectable. If you are on

Julio Montaner, Professor in the Department of Medicine and Head of the UBC Division of AIDS, has been appointed a University Killam Professor, the highest honor UBC can confer on a faculty member. Dr. Montaner, who also is the Director of the UBC/Providence Health Care BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, receives this recognition for

Once upon a time, our HIV prevention toolkit consisted of just one lousy, dull instrument: condoms. Nowadays, we have not only condoms in all colors, shapes and sizes, but also female condoms (hint: you don’t have to be female to use them), pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) and the mama of all discoveries: HIV

The rate of HIV-AIDS in Saskatchewan, particularly in First Nations communities, is so high that the province should declare a public-health state of emergency. That’s the view of a group of doctors in the province who, on Monday, are issuing a cri de coeur for action. The ad hoc coalition, led by Dr. Ryan Meili