News – Page 26 – Prevention Access Campaign

May 24, 2018

U=U Launches in Ho Chi Minh City

Việt Nam News: “A campaign called Undetectable = Untransmittable was launched on Wednesday in HCM City to persuade people living with HIV to take antiretrovirals as prescribed by doctors to reduce the virus load in their body to undetectable levels so that they do not transmit it to their sexual partners. The campaign seeks to …

May 23, 2018

Study Guide: Gay Men Still Don’t Believe Undetectable = Untransmittable

“It’s been over 30 years since the inception of the virus, and still, there is so much shaming and stigma surrounding people living with HIV. This in large part due to misinformation and fear of contracting the virus. That’s what led Drs. Jonathon Rendina and Jeffrey Parsons of Hunter College to explore whether gay, bisexual, …

May 23, 2018

Top NYC Health Official: ‘We’re Seeing Results’ With HIV U=U

The U=U movement ignited when Demetre C. Daskalakis, MD, MPH, the Deputy Commissioner of the Division of Disease Control at the NYC DOHMH signed on. Dr. Daskalakis shares the story of how NYC launched the campaign and continues to lead the way: “In the summer of 2016, I signed on to Prevention Access Campaign (PAC)’s …

May 22, 2018

Lovin’ with HIV

CATIE shares stories of women living with HIV, stigma, U=U, and pleasurable sex. Studies on the effect of HIV on women’s sexual lives show that fear of transmitting HIV to their partners, anxiety, and depression, and broader societal stigma and discrimination are just some of the factors that can put a damper on the deed. Never feeling …

May 15, 2018

VIRUS INDÉTECTABLE = VIRUS INTRANSMISSIBLE in Mauritius

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Today U=U partner PILS (Prévention Information Lutte contre le SIDA) launched the I=I campaign (Virus indétectable = Virus intransmissible) on social media and at the AIDS Candlelight Memorial. With a population of just over 8,000 people living with HIV, the advocates in Mauritius are making strides to educate that surpass countries with hundreds of thousands of people living …

May 14, 2018

Courtney Act and New Zealand AIDS Foundation get the U=U word out

RuPaul’s Drag Race alum and Celebrity Big Brother UK winner Courtney Act joins U=U community partner New Zealand AIDS Foundation and Ending HIV NZ in a new video to educate about U=U and undetectable viral loads. The video uses humor and sex-positivity to educate about what it means to be undetectable, stay healthy and have …

April 12, 2018

Nashville Tennessee Joins U=U

The Metropolitan Board of Health of Nashville and Davidson County adopted a resolution which (1) “endorses the Prevention Access Campaign’s Consensus Statement including its U=U message;” and (2) “urges the Metro Health Department and its partners to spread the U=U message broadly and to integrate it in client education, especially to people living with HIV …

April 11, 2018

The UK National Health Service (NHS) confirms U=U

In a historic shift in messaging about HIV transmission risk, the UK National Health Service (NHS) updated their sexual health information to include U=U and to source the campaign’s lead partner NAM aidsmap’s U=U consensus statement. “When someone with HIV takes effective treatment it reduces their viral load to undetectable levels. This means the level of HIV virus …

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U=U Launches in Ho Chi Minh City

Study Guide: Gay Men Still Don’t Believe Undetectable = Untransmittable

Top NYC Health Official: ‘We’re Seeing Results’ With HIV U=U

Lovin’ with HIV

VIRUS INDÉTECTABLE = VIRUS INTRANSMISSIBLE in Mauritius

Courtney Act and New Zealand AIDS Foundation get the U=U word out

Nashville Tennessee Joins U=U

The UK National Health Service (NHS) confirms U=U