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December 6, 2016

Position Statement: Treatment As Prevention

“Not since the introduction of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) in 1996 has there been as significant a milestone as U=U (Undetectable Equals Untransmittable). The effectiveness of ART is so robust that, according to a recent consensus statement from 13 leading AIDS researchers and AIDS organizations, once an undetectable viral load has been achieved and maintained for …

December 1, 2016

HIV Influencers 2016 Honors: U=U Honored for “Best Use of Social Media in HIV Advocacy”

Best use of social media in HIV advocacy “Under the leadership of executive director Bruce Richman and numerous HIV activists, Prevention Access Campaign launched the social media campaign ‘Undetectable = Untransmittable’ in 2016. Answering the fundamental question about risk of individuals living with HIV to their sexual partners, the message resonates across all social media platforms using the …

December 1, 2016

World AIDS Day 2016: The Year’s Biggest Developments

“Despite the advances in medicine and the conclusions of the top scientists, some will continue to stigmatize us and present us as the vectors of disease that they have always perceived us to be. Hand them the research, and move on. “It’s up to us to take control of the narrative about us. It’s up …

December 1, 2016

EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Sheen reveals his HIV has been fully suppressed by an injection in a clinical trial – as he joins health officials’ supporting the cause on World AIDS Day

Prevention Access Campaign was honored to be featured in the first mass mainstream media outlet to accurately cover HIV transmission risk when virally suppressed. As the most read news site in the world and the most high profile person living with HIV, Daily Mail and Charlie Sheen provided a large scale opportunity to raise awareness and destigmatize HIV. “According …

November 28, 2016

Undetectable = Uninfectious. Zero Means Zero, People.

“Richman says it’s critical to have experts speak out because ‘virtually all HIV communications in the U.S. convey that there is still a risk, or warn that the risk — according to mathematic models — is not zero.’ ‘Exaggerating the ‘danger’ we are to others is an act of violence against all of us with HIV,” Richman …

November 28, 2016

SEXY, SERENE, UNDETECTABLE AND UNINFECTIOUS: AIDES PARIS LAUNCHES GROUNDBREAKING “REVELATION” CAMPAIGN

“PositiveLite.com has published many articles to share the news and discuss the facts around the Undetectable = Uninfectious campaign: that people living with HIV who are on successful treatment and undetectable for six months cannot transmit HIV. France’s oldest HIV/AIDS organisation, AIDES, has just launched a publicity campaign which pulls no punches and states that people living with …

November 7, 2016

Can we end the North American HIV epidemic? We have the pills, the prevention plan and the strategy to prevent infections — so what’s stopping us?

Daily Extra points out that as a strategy to end the epidemic, [U=U] would be 10 times greater than PrEP alone, yet we hear much less about this — and that’s a problem in itself. “The Prevention Access Campaign (PAC), a multi-agency health equity initiative to end HIV and HIV-related stigma, has been working overtime to push this …

October 30, 2016

Bruce Richman & John Byrne inducted into the Love Superhero Hall of Gratitude

Bruce Richman & John Byrne were inducted into the Love Superhero Hall of Gratitude in October 2016 for their work as founders of Prevention Access Campaign. “This important effort aims to accelerate our language and behaviors catching up with the science. In short, PAC is dismantling HIV-related stigma through demanding accurate HIV reporting in the media, supporting correct …

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Position Statement: Treatment As Prevention

HIV Influencers 2016 Honors: U=U Honored for “Best Use of Social Media in HIV Advocacy”

World AIDS Day 2016: The Year’s Biggest Developments

EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Sheen reveals his HIV has been fully suppressed by an injection in a clinical trial – as he joins health officials’ supporting the cause on World AIDS Day

Undetectable = Uninfectious. Zero Means Zero, People.

SEXY, SERENE, UNDETECTABLE AND UNINFECTIOUS: AIDES PARIS LAUNCHES GROUNDBREAKING “REVELATION” CAMPAIGN

Can we end the North American HIV epidemic? We have the pills, the prevention plan and the strategy to prevent infections — so what’s stopping us?

Bruce Richman & John Byrne inducted into the Love Superhero Hall of Gratitude