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August 31, 2017

AIDS retreat Region: Barbados & Caribbean ‘on the cusp of winning HIV fight’

At the Caribbean Cytometry & Analytical Society (CCAS) meetings in Barbados, Chairman and Professor Clive Landis explained, “Let me just say it clearly. If you are treated and the virus is suppressed in your body . . . undetectable equals un-infectious. Now this is the reason what the whole HIV epidemic is now turning in …

August 27, 2017

How to Safely Conceive When a Partner Is Living With HIV

“The CDC report, and the research it spotlights, reinforces a message emphasized by many leading HIV researchers and advocates like Bruce Richman, who’s the founding executive director of the nonprofit Prevention Access Campaign, an initiative that seeks to empower people living with HIV or vulnerable to HIV with accurate and meaningful information about their social, sexual …

August 25, 2017

The Word Is in: U=U Is a Huge Success!

Kevin Maloney, founder of the RiseUpToHIV social media community and member of the U=U steering committee explains how and why he helped launch and continues to grow U=U: “Sixteen months later, U=U has grown into the biggest campaign yet to let the world know the undeniable truth that is backed by science over stigma: undetectable …

August 23, 2017

My Response to Someone Who Denies Undetectable = Untransmittable

Maria Mejia, Global Ambassador and Community Advisory Board Member of The Well Project and member of the U=U steering committee writes passionately about how she feels when people deny that U=U is true: “I will try to explain with humility and respect the reason why it hurts us to deny the truth and not support …

August 18, 2017

GAY SEX: TWO-THIRDS OF MEN DIDN’T WEAR A CONDOM LAST TIME THEY DID IT

Newsweek describes a study conducted by U=U partner Gay Men Fight Aids (GMFA) on the the sexual practices of gay men who are having sex without condoms with both HIV-negative and HIV-positive partners. Newsweek reports “…HIV-positive men who have an undetectable viral load—meaning they cannot pass on the infection due to their HIV treatment—can have condomless sex without …

August 9, 2017

The evidence for U=U: why negligible risk is zero risk

“Over the last year, hundreds of HIV organisations have joined a new campaign to endorse the statement that HIV sexual transmission does not occur when viral load is undetectable on ART. And while the dramatic impact of ART on reducing HIV transmission has been known for a long time, it is new to say ART …

August 5, 2017

Positively Hopeful

Dr Bilali Camara, UNAIDS Country Director for India: “When people living with HIV are under treatment, the level of virus circulating goes down and they cannot transmit the virus anymore to their unborn child, breastfeeding child or sexual partners.” Jyoti Dhawale Surve, U=U Steering Committee: “The campaign Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U),will be a shot in …

August 1, 2017

NO ORDINARY AFFAIR. IAS 2017 REPORT FROM PARIS, PART TWO: U=U MAKES A HUGE SPLASH

Bob Leahy describes the U=U community’s behind-the-scenes tension and excitement at International AIDS Society 2017 conference. “And then that same morning came cause for real celebration. The French group AIDES and Sidaction had arranged for the Mayor of Paris to meet with them at the France booth in the exhibition hall. I got there as cameras were …

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AIDS retreat Region: Barbados & Caribbean ‘on the cusp of winning HIV fight’

How to Safely Conceive When a Partner Is Living With HIV

The Word Is in: U=U Is a Huge Success!

My Response to Someone Who Denies Undetectable = Untransmittable

GAY SEX: TWO-THIRDS OF MEN DIDN’T WEAR A CONDOM LAST TIME THEY DID IT

The evidence for U=U: why negligible risk is zero risk

Positively Hopeful

NO ORDINARY AFFAIR. IAS 2017 REPORT FROM PARIS, PART TWO: U=U MAKES A HUGE SPLASH