Treatment as Prevention¨

The June mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando that stole the lives of 49 people, most of whom were Latino, underscores just how vulnerable we LGBTQ people are – and continue to be – despite legal and social advances. It is a wake-up call, as urgent as the call for justice launched at Stonewall […]

Treatment as Prevent Roadshow as featured on WIN News Watch WIN News Sunshine Coast featuring the HIV Treatment as Prevention Roadshow. The Roadshow continues this week in Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton and Bundaberg. Posted by END HIV on Sunday, July 31, 2016

Health professionals around regional Queensland are being brought up to speed on new approaches to HIV treatment and prevention during the HIV Foundation Queensland (HIVFQ)’s Treatment as Prevention Roadshow. The roadshow is aimed at a wide range of health professionals throughout regional Queensland, including non-HIV specialists, to inform them of the adoption of the latest

Canada hopes its plan to “proactively increase” its contributions to fighting the world’s three most deadly infectious diseases – tuberculosis, AIDS and malaria – will inspire others to do the same, the federal Health Minister says. “We’re hiking our financial commitment and hopefully other countries will do the same,” Jane Philpott said in an interview.

THE HIV Foundation Queensland Prevention Roadshow will be rolling into Toowoomba on Wednesday. It is bringing with it the latest in HIV prevention and treatment knowledge to help the region and local health professionals region end new transmissions of HIV. The HIV Foundation Queensland Treatment as Prevention Roadshow will see international experts share how their

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

Tadala still has flashbacks to the moment when her little sister stopped breathing. That day the children’s ward of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, was filled with patients. Despite the whirring fans overhead, the summer heat was unbearable. Nurses rushed from bed to bed, adjusting health charts and administering medication. At first they didn’t

Less than a decade ago, people were warning that Swaziland – a country of about 1.3 million – could be wiped off the map, as HIV cut life expectancy to only 45.9 in 2005. “Every weekend was a funeral,” says health activist Bekhie Sithole. “My parents died because of Aids-related illnesses – although it was

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