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September 15, 2016

NASTAD JOINS GLOBAL HIV EXPERTS: PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV ON EFFECTIVE TREATMENT CANNOT TRANSMIT HIV

“At the United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) this week, NASTAD (National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS Directors) announced its commitment to communicating one of the most ground-breaking developments in the last two decades of the epidemic: people living with HIV on effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) cannot transmit HIV. The announcement, as a sign-on …

September 6, 2016

Negligible Risk: Updated results from two studies continue to show that antiretroviral treatment and an undetectable viral load is a highly effective HIV prevention strategy

Canada’s HIV information research source confirms the “consensus on the risk of sexual transmission of HIV when the viral load is undetectable: Based on the cumulative evidence to date, community members and leading researchers have endorsed the following Prevention Access Campaign statement.” Read the CATIE article for the full story.

September 2, 2016

WHY SOME ORGANIZATIONS ARE SLOW TO ADOPT THE UNDETECTABLE=UNINFECTIOUS MESSAGE

UNDETECTABLE = UNINFECTIOUS so why are some organizations and educators so slow to disseminate the facts? From Terrence Higgins Trust in the UK, Megan Deputter delivers a penetrating analysis. “Lately on PositiveLite.com there has been quite a bit of buzz about the PARTNER study – not only about its fantastic findings, but also about the …

August 10, 2016

New York City Health Official Joins Global Leaders in Signing a Consensus Statement on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic’s Most Groundbreaking Development in the Last Twenty Years

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis becomes the First U.S. Public Health Official to Conclude “Negligible Risk” of Transmission from a Person with HIV who is Undetectable. “HIV /AIDS experts from the U.S., Australia, Denmark and Switzerland–including Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of HIV/AIDS at the New York City Health Department — endorsed a consensus …

August 10, 2016

‘Negligible risk’ of HIV with ART

“HIV experts from around the world have joined together to declare that — with effective treatment — the risk of HIV transmission is ‘negligible’. A statement, released by the Prevention Access Campaign, says: ‘People living with HIV on [antiretroviral therapy] with an undetectable viral load in their blood have a negligible risk of sexual transmission of …

August 3, 2016

Bob Leahy of PositiveLite Canada talks to Bruce Richman About U=U

From PositiveLite (Canada): “Two undetectable guys with HIV, one from Canada and one from New York, talk about condomless sex, STIs, sex negativity, HIV stigma, bad information — and the strategies behind the high profile Prevention Access Campaign.” “I’ve come to realize that a lot of the information that is presented about us is often inaccurate and …

August 2, 2016

BIG Undetectable Mistake

Why a 96% reduction in risk doesn’t mean you still have a 4% chance of getting HIV. And why it isn’t about being undetectable. “While people with HIV and our partners celebrate the groundswell of groundbreaking, stigma-shattering evidence proving that people with HIV with an undetectable viral load cannot transmit HIV, it can be frustrating, to say the least, when …

July 26, 2016

Does Undetectable Mean Uninfectious? The Challenge of Explaining HIV Study Results

“As the executive director and cofounder of Prevention Access Campaign, Bruce Richman focuses on getting the word out about the benefits of HIV treatment not only for people living with the virus but also for their sexual partners. In this Q&A with POZ magazine, he speaks about the challenges that researchers and the media face in communicating the recent …

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NASTAD JOINS GLOBAL HIV EXPERTS: PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV ON EFFECTIVE TREATMENT CANNOT TRANSMIT HIV

Negligible Risk: Updated results from two studies continue to show that antiretroviral treatment and an undetectable viral load is a highly effective HIV prevention strategy

WHY SOME ORGANIZATIONS ARE SLOW TO ADOPT THE UNDETECTABLE=UNINFECTIOUS MESSAGE

New York City Health Official Joins Global Leaders in Signing a Consensus Statement on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic’s Most Groundbreaking Development in the Last Twenty Years

‘Negligible risk’ of HIV with ART

Bob Leahy of PositiveLite Canada talks to Bruce Richman About U=U

BIG Undetectable Mistake

Does Undetectable Mean Uninfectious? The Challenge of Explaining HIV Study Results