About 16,000 Canadians are living with HIV and don’t know it, according to statistics from Canada’s Public Health Agency (PHAC). That figure has prompted health experts to call for increased testing and more proactive treatment to reach people who haven’t been diagnosed and prevent them from spreading the illness to others. Dec. 1 marks World […]
One in five HIV-positive Canadians don’t know they’re HIV-positive Read More »
About 16,000 Canadians are living with HIV and don’t know it, according to statistics from Canada’s Public Health Agency (PHAC). That figure has prompted health experts to call for increased testing and more proactive treatment to reach people who haven’t been diagnosed and prevent them from spreading the illness to others. Dec. 1 marks World
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Cuando los pacientes se adhieren a su rgimen de medicamentos, pueden casi eliminar el riesgo de transmisión del virus a sus parejas. El mundo se comprometió a poner fin a la epidemia del sida para 2030, la meta aprobada este año por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU). ¿Pero es realista o incluso posible?
Plan de la ONU para VIH necesita más dinero, menos complacencia Read More »
The disclosure by HIV-positive actor Charlie Sheen’s ex-girlfriend that she took a pill to prevent her from getting the disease has focused attention on Truvada. The pill, which has been shown to reduce infection in HIV-negative partners of those with HIV by more than 90 per cent, is approved for that purpose in the U.S.
Pre-exposure pill shows promise protecting against HIV infection but it’s pricey Read More »
The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS is launching a new initiative that aims to maximize the longevity of people living with HIV. Two decades ago, Dr. Julio Montaner’s biggest concern for people with HIV was keeping them alive. Today, the director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS says he is grateful to
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Even before doctors determined that the source of her baby girl’s illness was HIV, Denise Wozniak remembered thinking: “The worst thing it could have been was AIDS.” She recalled the U.S. movie Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks, a lawyer who was shunned after he got the disease, was playing at theatres at the time and her
Stigma surrounding HIV still exists, but death rate is on the decline Read More »
It’s no secret that the last Canadian federal government, Stephen Harper’s Conservative party, did little in the fight again HIV. However, the new Justin Trudeau Liberal government has said they are committed to evidence-based decision making, and Vancouver’s MP, Dr Hedy Fry, is an enthusiastic supporter of Treatment as Prevention (“TasP”), and the wider 90-90-90
Testing, TasP, and PrEP; Canada could become world leader with new HIV strategy Read More »
Home to the third-largest number of people living with HIV in Asia and the Pacific, Indonesia is a country critical to ending the AIDS epidemic in the region and on this World AIDS Day we are at a defining moment. Only three decades since HIV arrived in this country, we can begin to close the
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Ending the disease’s spread by 2030 faces “enormous” challenges. The world committed to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 with goals adopted this year by the United Nations. But is that realistic, or even possible? There are a lot of reasons for optimism on this World AIDS Day. The number of new infections has dropped
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