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UNAIDS welcomes adoption of new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Countries adopt an ambitious new development agenda that will leave no one behind NEW YORK/GENEVA, 25 September 2015-UNAIDS has welcomed the adoption by world leaders of the new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals which set the framework for global development policy over the next 15 years. The ambitious agenda outlines 17 goals ranging from ending […]

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The Pope Should Visit Atlanta to Address the U.S. HIV Crisis

Cities in the South are experiencing record-high rates of HIV infection among African Americans. Pope Francis sent a message of hope to the International AIDS Society’s 8th Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention this past summer. He told participants, “that all advances in pharmacology, treatment, and research will be matched by a firm commitment

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Julio Montaner: Open letter to Stephen Harper calling for endorsement of HIV/AIDS global target

Editor’s note: This open letter was sent to Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, as well as NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, Green Leader Elizabeth May, and Assembly of First Nations national chief Perry Bellegarde. Dear Prime Minister, It gives me great pleasure to report that our 90-90-90 Target will be further considered as

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Awareness of treatment’s impact on transmission is transforming the lives of couples of mixed HIV status

A greater understanding of the impact of HIV treatment on prevention is changing the experience of being in a relationship with a partner of a different HIV status, according to a qualitative Australian study published last week in the Sociology of Health and Illness. A biomedical intervention appears to be having unexpected effects – loosening

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The future of HIV is here

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently declared that the world will soon welcome a “generation free of AIDS”. His bold statement followed the release of latest UNAIDS research showing that across the globe new HIV infections have fallen by 35% and AIDS-related deaths by 41% since 2000. … Initiatives to reduce HIV transmission focus heavily

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$8.4 Million Grant to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Funds Five-Year HIV Study

Research aims to improve HIV care and prevention among young men of color Newswise – Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles have received an $8.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct research to improve HIV care and prevention in a study focusing on Black, Latino and multiracial gay and bisexual

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Talking early treatment issues

Bob Leahy talks with the world’s leading treatment as prevention advocate, B.C.’s Dr. Julio Montaner, about new research that broadens the case for early treatment – and why Canada still needs to fully embrace its benefits. Vancouver, BC [September, 2015] A new study finds patients who start HIV combination antiretroviral treatment at high CD4 levels

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The British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Laboratory has discontinued gp-41 resistance testing as T-20 (enfuvirtide/Fuzeon) is no longer available in Canada as of March 31, 2025