Treatment as Prevention¨

South Africa has more people living with HIV-AIDS than any other country in the world, a staggering seven million. But, in the past generation, it has gone from being the poster child for the pandemic’s relentless and unstoppable devastation to a symbol of hope and living proof that HIV-AIDS can be slowed, and maybe even […]

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, right? So right off the bat, I’m going to offer up a couple of mea culpas from my journalism over the years. More than a decade ago, I became keenly interested in the topic of peak oil. It began after I read The Party’s Over by

A new study has found zero cases of HIV transmission between sero-discordant partners where the partner with HIV has an undetectable viral load. The PARTNER study, which included 1,166 serodifferent couples at 75 clinical sites in 14 European countries, has been released in time for the International AIDS Conference 2016 in Durban, South Africa. Researchers

Two senior public health doctors have called on NHS England to fund pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in a bid to better prevent new HIV infections. Though PrEP has been shown to be a safe, effective and cost-effective method to protect people who risk getting infected, public health officials have refused to make it available on the

On a Wednesday morning in April, a line of 600 HIV-infected people snakes through the hallways to the first waiting room of the Themba Lethu Clinic, a wing of the Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. In most places in the country, where clinics are overtaxed, this would presage a wait of up to

PrEP is changing the landscape of sex parties and other group sex events, helping to break down barriers between people who are positive and negative-and helping people who are HIV-negative stay that way. Before PrEP, and the widespread understanding of the effectiveness of treatment as prevention (TasP), group sex events oftentimes mandated condom use. Or,

My stepfather came back from Vietnam in the mid-’70s, a broken man with post-traumatic stress disorder and health complications that grow more dire the older he gets. His PTSD has lasted 40 years; he couldn’t “just let it go” as some people have admonished. I was talking with my friend Scott* recently and couldn’t help

China is bringing free antiretroviral therapy (ART) to all citizens living with HIV, the country’s top health authority has announced. China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission said ART should be available to everyone diagnosed with HIV. Until now ART has only been available in China to those with a low level of immunity, but

DOUBLE Happiness is the new campaign to promote the Treatment as prevention (TasP) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the fight against HIV. The Victorian PrEP Accord launched the Double Happiness Campaign with Victorian Health Minister Jill Hennessy yesterday. The campaign uses Chinese symbolism for ‘double happiness’ to promote the union of the two complementary strategies

A new campaign promoting both Treatment as Prevention and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis has been launched in Melbourne. Treatment as Prevention (TasP) means when a person living with HIV gets on to antiretroviral medications which can lower the viral load in their bloodstream to undetectable levels. International studies have shown people with undetectable viral loads have very