Treatment as Prevention¨

A new walk-in clinic for people with opioid addictions and other health issues including HIV and hepatitis C is opening in the Downtown Eastside. The clinic, called Connections, will be accessible through a door on the alley at an expanded Hope to Health Research Centre at 625 Powell. People will be able to walk into […]

Vancouver’s Health Initiative for Men has endorsed an international campaign to communicate the latest HIV research. The results may surprise you. “Hey guys!” proclaimed a recent Facebook post from the Health Initiative for Men (HIM). “Well, we’re making it official: U=U! … UNDETECTABLE=UNINFECTIOUS!” The big news unveiled by the Vancouver gay men’s health organization may

TasP – or Treatment as Prevention-aims to promote awareness that it’s incredibly difficult to get HIV from someone who’s undetectable. But that idea is proving a hard pill to swallow “This is a world that is run mostly by HIV-negative people, and they’re focused on protecting their own interests,” Bruce Richman tells me. He’s the

Bob Leahy has been with the Undetectable = Untransmittable campaign in Canada from the beginning. Here he tells the remarkable story of how a movement led by people living with HIV changed the HIV message forever. It was the domino effect. Once CATIE signed on to U = U, others quickly scrambled to do the