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May 21, 2019

Trade tension won’t halt China-US cooperation on AIDS elimination: Scientists

“HIV research scientists gave assurances that China-US cooperation on HIV vaccine trials would not be affected by current trade tensions, adding that China plays a significant role in AIDS elimination… With effective, quality treatment, people living with HIV can have the virus suppressed and made undetectable in their bodies, enabling them to live full and …

May 17, 2019

GCN: Undetectable = Untransmittable – Campaign Against HIV Stigma Gets Boost In Ireland

“A collaboration between the website MASC. and HIV activist group ACT UP Dublin, the campaign features people in Ireland who are living with HIV sharing positive messages about the health and prevention benefits of treatment. Using the phrase Undetectable = Untransmittable (often shortened to U=U or #UequalsU) the campaign is part of an international effort to …

May 17, 2019

Brazilian Government DIAHV Updates Clinical Guidelines on Undetectable = Untransmittable

“A justificativa para o uso do conceito está apoiada nas evidências científicas de que as PVHIV em Tratamento Antirretroviral (TARV) e carga viral indetectável não transmite o vírus por via sexual. O termo Indetectável = Intransmissível (I = I) já é utilizado por cientistas e instituições de referência sobre o HIV em abrangência mundial. O …

May 2, 2019

Global Media Coverage of PARTNER2 / U=U Published in The Lancet

CNN: “The risk of passing on the HIV virus is completely eliminated by effective drugs treatment, a landmark study has shown, in a significant boost to the prospects of ending the AIDS pandemic. A study of nearly 1,000 gay male couples, where one partner with HIV took antiretroviral therapy (ART), found no new cases of transmission to the HIV-negative …

April 29, 2019

#HIVscoop: Head of U=U in U.S. Changes to Penner; Richman to Focus on International Efforts

“The U=U movement, led by Prevention Access Campaign for the last several years, still has much work to do, specifically within the U.S., as America appears to have much less HIV agency buy-in to sharing the message than elsewhere in the world… “It’s important to know when it’s time to step back and allow for …

April 29, 2019

PAC U=U Welcomes Murray Penner

“Dear friends and colleagues, I’m beyond thrilled to announce that Murray Penner has joined Prevention Access Campaign (PAC) as Executive Director, North America. Murray’s personal announcement is here. Few people have been as instrumental in the launch and growth of the U=U movement as Murray has. He embodies the bold, decisive, and compassionate leadership we need …

April 29, 2019

Murray Penner: My Path to U=U

“Undetectable was only the start of a one-two punch against shame and stigma. Enter PrEP, which has become crucial for preventing new HIV infections. But in 2016, when I learned U=U, it was my first real opportunity, as it was for many others, to finally shed my own stigma and shame and to begin to …

April 29, 2019

NAM aidsmap: Most UK clinic staff now tell people about U=U, but not always in the same way

“Two presentations at this month’s British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference in Bournemouth show that most specialist healthcare workers are now informing people with HIV that if their viral load becomes undetectable as a result of taking antiretroviral therapy (ART), they can no longer transmit the virus (‘Undetectable equals untransmittable’, or ‘U=U’). However, the healthcare workers told the patients …

Latest News

Trade tension won’t halt China-US cooperation on AIDS elimination: Scientists

GCN: Undetectable = Untransmittable – Campaign Against HIV Stigma Gets Boost In Ireland

Brazilian Government DIAHV Updates Clinical Guidelines on Undetectable = Untransmittable

Global Media Coverage of PARTNER2 / U=U Published in The Lancet

#HIVscoop: Head of U=U in U.S. Changes to Penner; Richman to Focus on International Efforts

PAC U=U Welcomes Murray Penner

Murray Penner: My Path to U=U

NAM aidsmap: Most UK clinic staff now tell people about U=U, but not always in the same way