News – Prevention Access Campaign

August 22, 2024

USA: Victory! Court Strikes Down Last Categorical Disqualification to Military Service for Those Living with HIV

Today, in a Lambda Legal case filed against the Department of Defense in 2022, a U.S. District Court struck down the last categorical disqualification preventing people living with HIV from joining the U.S. Armed Services, writing: “Defendants’ policies prohibiting the accession of asymptomatic HIV-positive individuals with undetectable viral loads into the military are irrational, arbitrary, …

July 23, 2024

EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA: New report shows lack of knowledge of U=U among healthcare workers

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) have released a report assessing HIV-related stigma and discrimination within healthcare settings in Europe and Central Asia, revealing significant gaps in knowledge on HIV transmission and prevention among healthcare workers. This lack of knowledge is associated with higher levels …

July 21, 2024

GLOBAL: The CDC and PAC release new U=U Resource Guide

The CDC and PAC released the comprehensive “Implementing and Scaling Up Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U)” resource guide, to help partners implement and champion U=U in PEPFAR-supported countries and beyond. This guide can help public health officials, healthcare professionals, and advocates understand U=U, place it in a scientific context, and communicate it effectively as a public …

July 16, 2024

TAIWAN: National U = U Day: Making a difference for people living with HIV

In Taiwan, the PRAA have set up a National U=U Day to dispel myths and stigma related to HIV and to educate the public on the modern-day reality of living with HIV. We talked to Fletcher Chui, Director of Communications at PRAA, to discuss why the National U=U Day is important.

June 20, 2024

RWANDA: “Undetectable=Untransmittable”: A game-changer in Rwanda’s HIV prevention, treatment course

In 2021, the Undetectable=Untransmittable (U=U) programme was introduced by the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) in partnership with the Rwanda Network of People Living with HIV (RPP+). The U=U strategy is where individuals with HIV, undergoing treatment and maintaining an undetectable viral load, cannot transmit the virus to an HIV-negative partner.

May 21, 2024

AUSTRALIA: Oz joins global push to enshrine U=U on HIV

Australia has become the fourth nation to sign a global declaration that undetectable HIV is untransmissible HIV, almost four years after the “U=U” policy was cemented in our national HIV prevention guidelines. The movement to spread awareness of U=U began in 2016 with the Prevention Access Campaign in the US, and now spans over 100 …

May 20, 2024

USA: People with HIV can breast/chestfeed if taking treatment and virus is undetectable, pediatricians’ group says

For the first time, the American Academy of Pediatrics has changed its position to say people living with HIV can breast/chestfeed their infants if they are on treatment and maintain an undetectable viral load. People living with HIV in the US have risked criminalization and having children removed by protective services if they breast/chestfed their …

May 17, 2024

UK: People with HIV can now donate eggs or sperm

The U=U science continues to end outdated and unjust discriminatory laws, policies, and practices worldwide. A change in UK legislation for which LGBT+ activists have long campaigned will open the door to thousands of same-sex couples with non-transmissible HIV to conceive children through fertility treatments.

Latest News

USA: Victory! Court Strikes Down Last Categorical Disqualification to Military Service for Those Living with HIV

EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA: New report shows lack of knowledge of U=U among healthcare workers

GLOBAL: The CDC and PAC release new U=U Resource Guide

TAIWAN: National U = U Day: Making a difference for people living with HIV

RWANDA: “Undetectable=Untransmittable”: A game-changer in Rwanda’s HIV prevention, treatment course

AUSTRALIA: Oz joins global push to enshrine U=U on HIV

USA: People with HIV can breast/chestfeed if taking treatment and virus is undetectable, pediatricians’ group says

UK: People with HIV can now donate eggs or sperm