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July 9, 2018

Ottawa Capital Pride is proud to support the U=U Campaign

Ottawa Capital Pride has officially signed onto the #UequalsU Campaign. “Capital Pride is proud to support Undetectable equals Untransmittable Campaign and add our name to the U=U Consensus Statement… A groundswell of research confirms that when a person living with HIV is on effective treatment, it will reduce the level of HIV to “undetectable” levels …

June 27, 2018

National HIV Testing Day — tests are lagging and the end of the epidemic is far away

Melanie Thompson, M.D., chair of the HIV Medicine Association, agrees with #UequalsU, “For those diagnosed with HIV, linkage to care and continuous access to HIV medications can lead to a “near normal lifespan, eliminate progression to AIDS, and suppress the virus to “undetectable” levels thus eliminating HIV transmission to others.” Read and learn more at The Hill.

June 25, 2018

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of AIDS Research: U=U is a game changer!

In a letter issued today, Dr. Maureen M. Goodenow, director of the NIH Office of AIDS Research, explained “U=U is a game changer because it transforms the social, sexual, and reproductive lives of PWH. It enables PWH and their partners to be in a relationship without fear of transmitting HIV. PWH report no longer feeling …

June 18, 2018

U=U. Period.

Ben Plumley writes about U=U as “a technological advance, backed up with unequivocal data, for which greater enthusiasm is rightly demanded.” “More than the prosaic ‘treatment as prevention’, U=U pries open a whole new world of possibilities that have been denied to people with HIV: To hook up; to have enriching relationships; to have kids; to …

June 16, 2018

Hennepin County says end to HIV epidemic is in sight

Hennepin County became the fourth county in the country today to join an international campaign that changes how public health officials respond to HIV prevention and care. The announcement corresponds with AIDS Action Day at Minnesota’s capitol. Maxon said it’s hard to understate how important the U=U stance is for the effort to end HIV. …

June 14, 2018

Language used to convey HIV infection risk is important

Bob Leahy, the founder of U=U Canada, who moved the nation to sign on, writes in The Lancet about the importance of using precise language to convey risk. Jens Lundgren, co-principal investigator of the groundbreaking study on transmission risk PARTNER and founding co-signer of the U=U Consensus Statement agrees. “It is not just semantics but …

June 5, 2018

Australian HIV-negative gay men uncomfortable relying on an undetectable viral load to prevent HIV

“Australian HIV-negative gay men express far more confidence in pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) than an undetectable viral load in preventing HIV, with only 18% agreeing that “a person with an undetectable viral load cannot pass on HIV” and 6% feeling comfortable having condomless sex with an HIV-positive partner who had an undetectable viral load, according to …

June 3, 2018

U=U Gains Traction in Nigeria

[W]hile ART has been around for decades, these antiviral drugs have become far more effective, Dr. Greene says. Not only can they allow someone who is HIV positive to live a normal, symptom-free life for decades, but they can also eliminate the risk that an HIV-positive individual will transmit the virus to a partner or …

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Ottawa Capital Pride is proud to support the U=U Campaign

National HIV Testing Day — tests are lagging and the end of the epidemic is far away

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of AIDS Research: U=U is a game changer!

U=U. Period.

Hennepin County says end to HIV epidemic is in sight

Language used to convey HIV infection risk is important

Australian HIV-negative gay men uncomfortable relying on an undetectable viral load to prevent HIV

U=U Gains Traction in Nigeria