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January 24, 2017

‘Negligible’ HIV risk from people in treatment, new campaign proclaims

“Vancouver’s Health Initiative for Men has endorsed an international campaign to communicate the latest HIV research. The results may surprise you. The big news unveiled by the Vancouver gay men’s health organization may come as a surprise to anyone unfamiliar with the latest studies into how HIV is transmitted. But it has major implications, far …

January 20, 2017

ICASO and INA endorse U=U Consensus Statement

“ICASO (International Council of AIDS Service Organizations) and INA (Māori, Indigenous & South Pacific) HIV/AIDS Foundation strongly endorse the Undetectable = Untransmittable (U = U) Consensus Statement issued by the Prevention Access Campaign. The scientific evidence is clear and unequivocal: effective treatment reduces HIV transmission risk to zero.” Read the full statement here.

January 19, 2017

REMEMBER, PEOPLE WITH HIV INVENTED SAFE SEX.

“Like most PositiveLite.com readers, I’ve been following the undetectable = untransmittable saga with interest. I was thrilled to read about the new statement from CATIE, which endorses this clear message. This ground-breaking change comes directly from the efforts of people living with HIV themselves. It represents a fine example of the profound work of people living with …

January 17, 2017

BC’S YOUTHCO TALKS TO POSITIVELITE.COM ABOUT ITS DECISION TO BACK U = U

Bob Leahy talks to dynamic YouthCo executive director Sarah Chown about how and why she led her agency to say what few others would then say: That if you are undetectable you can’t transmit the virus. Read about it on PositiveLite.

January 13, 2017

Undetectable = Untransmittable – CATIE signs on

Prevention Access Campaign is thrilled that CATIE, Canada’s official source of HIV information which provides the front line scientific information to service providers across the country, signed-on to U=U. This means that ASOs nationwide will begin sharing this message. “All of us here at CATIE, and indeed around the world, are celebrating the most significant development in the …

January 6, 2017

Human Rights Campaign Partners with Prevention Access Campaign to Correct Misinformation about HIV

“Today, [Human Rights Campaign] HRC announced a partnership with the Prevention Access Campaign (PAC) to correct misinformation about HIV in the news media through a new joint initiative called the Accuracy Watchdog.“ Read more at HRC.

December 21, 2016

Housing Works is First US HIV Service Org To Say: #UequalsU

Award-winning blogger and young health advocate and activist Josh Robbins’ salute to Housing Works: “Finally, the first nationally-recognized HIV and AIDS service organization bravely and ethically says the truth about those living with HIV and undetectable: We cannot transmit.” Read more at [imstilljosh].

December 16, 2016

Five Reasons ‘HIV Undetectable’ Must Equal ‘Untransmittable’

In this hard-hitting and humorous piece, award-winning blogger, author, and longtime HIV advocate Mark S. King explains,”This skepticism from our own community reduces people with HIV, again, to a problem that must be managed. It suggests that those of us who have achieved undetectability don’t have the judgment to keep taking our medications or to …

Latest News

‘Negligible’ HIV risk from people in treatment, new campaign proclaims

ICASO and INA endorse U=U Consensus Statement

REMEMBER, PEOPLE WITH HIV INVENTED SAFE SEX.

BC’S YOUTHCO TALKS TO POSITIVELITE.COM ABOUT ITS DECISION TO BACK U = U

Undetectable = Untransmittable – CATIE signs on

Human Rights Campaign Partners with Prevention Access Campaign to Correct Misinformation about HIV

Housing Works is First US HIV Service Org To Say: #UequalsU

Five Reasons ‘HIV Undetectable’ Must Equal ‘Untransmittable’