Treatment as Prevention¨

Activist Paul Kawata talks to U.S. News about the potential to stop HIV and AIDS. When he came to Washington in 1985, Paul Kawata was a young man on fire. A new gay rights activist from Seattle, he had dedicated himself to battling a deadly threat to his community: a menacing new disease known as […]

Thursday is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. This year’s theme is The Conversation About HIV Is Changing: Talk Undetectable — referring to advances in science that are preventing new HIV infections and helping people with HIV live longer and healthier lives. According to the Centers for Disease Control, Gay and bisexual men in the

B.C. researchers analyzed the hospital records of over 7,000 people living with HIV. 13% of people with HIV were readmitted to hospital within 30 days of discharge. Patients with a single healthcare provider were less likely to need readmission. Studies have found that HIV-positive people who have been readmitted to a hospital within 30 days

A record high of more than 90% of HIV-positive gay and bisexual men are achieving an undetectable viral load thanks to antiretroviral treatment UNSW researchers have recorded an “encouraging” major shift towards newer forms of prevention of HIV transmission, thanks to government-funded access programs. The researchers, from the university’s Centre for Social Research in Health

Queensland’s Health Department will close the state’s trial of HIV prevention medication PrEP 18 months earlier than planned, removing $740,000 in funding from the Queensland AIDS Council. PrEP, which stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis, is a once-daily pill that has been found to dramatically reduce the risk of HIV transmission in HIV-negative people, in conjunction with

Na He, dean of the School of Public Health at Fudan University in Shanghai and an expert on the AIDS epidemic in China, will deliver the third annual Richard V. Lee Lecture on Oct. 5. The lecture, presented by the Office of Global Health Initiatives in the School of Public Health and Health Professions, will

Jeff Taylor, incoming Co-chair of the Community Advisory Board of the amfAR Institute for HIV Cure Research, has been living with HIV for 35 years. A longtime HIV research advocate and cancer survivor, he has served on many community advisory boards, including currently the National Cancer Institute’s AIDS Malignancy Consortium and the Collaboratory of AIDS

Results of a modeling study showed that in dense urban settings with high prevalence of hepatitis C among people who inject drugs, HCV treatment-as-prevention strategies will have little impact over 10 years unless coverage is greatly expanded. “With the availability of more tolerable and eective direct-acting antivirals, HCV treatment-as-prevention strategies could substantially curtail HCV transmission

Scott Fried has lived with HIV for 31 years and has lost 134 friends to AIDS since. Fried, HIV/AIDS educator and speaker, brought Penn State students and State College community members to tears with his discussion on “AIDS, Love, and the Meaning of Life” at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 28 in 233A HUB-Robeson Center. “He

The 15th annual Caribbean Cytometry & Analytical Society’s (CCAS) expert summit, “From Care to Cure – Towards the Elimination of HIV”, launched last evening in St. Lucia. The summit brings together regional and international HIV experts to explore scientific innovations and social interventions that will accelerate progress toward ending the AIDS epidemic as a public