Treatment as Prevention¨

Research from specialist HIV prevention and treatment clinics for female sex workers in Nairobi has found that the number testing positive for HIV dropped by more than two-thirds between 2008 and 2017. While no single intervention can be identified as to the underlying cause in the decreasing numbers, it suggests that increasing HIV awareness, testing […]

Research from specialist HIV prevention and treatment clinics for female sex workers in Nairobi has found that the number testing positive for HIV dropped by more than two-thirds between 2008 and 2017. While no single intervention can be identified as to the underlying cause in the decreasing numbers, it suggests that increasing HIV awareness, testing

Dramatic declines in HIV diagnoses in San Francisco have been attributed to testing, treatment and PrEP, but the declining Black population in the city is an unexamined factor, Dr Jade Pagkas-Bather of the University of Chicago and colleagues argue in the December issue of The Lancet HIV. There has been a 22% fall in San

The chief of Infectious Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital would take the reins at a pivotal moment for the CDC. President-elect Joe R. Biden has named Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, as his nominee to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Walensky is currently the chief of the Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General

As the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic we’re hearing on World AIDS Day that lessons learned over the last four decades are helping the fight today. David Zura explains.

As the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic we’re hearing on World AIDS Day that lessons learned over the last four decades are helping the fight today. David Zura explains.

As the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic we’re hearing on World AIDS Day that lessons learned over the last four decades are helping the fight today. David Zura explains.

On the occasion of World AIDS Day, British Columbia has reached new milestones in preventing HIV infections and improving the quality of life for people living with HIV. B.C. has surpassed a UNAIDS target and has seen a greater than 90% decrease in people living with and dying from AIDS. New HIV diagnoses have reached

New HIV infections currently at an all-time low in B.C. New HIV infections are at their lowest rate since the disease first hit British Columbia, according to top researcher Dr. Julio Montaner. Last year, on Dec. 1, World AIDS Day, Montaner declared the epidemic of HIV/AIDS over in B.C. because infection rates had fallen so

Peter Jepson-Young became the face of the HIV crisis in broadcasts that described the reality of an epidemic Thirty years since her son first dared to show his face on the nightly news, beaming his story of living with and eventually dying of AIDS into living rooms across British Columbia, Shirley Young still starts each