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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 …

October 26, 2016

If You Favor HIV Filters On Dating Apps, You’re Living In Ignorance, Blogger Says

QUEERTY interviews Alex Garner, Senior Health Innovation Strategist at Hornet, about why gay men feel the need to filter out HIV positive men on dating app and references Prevention Access Campaign: “Garner thinks part of the problem is that many people don’t fully understand ‘undetectable’ means.” “The Prevention Access Campaign defines it as such: A person living with HIV …

October 24, 2016

Women Living with HIV Are Leading the Way

“Since the beginning of the epidemic, people with HIV and allies have had to save our own lives. We have educated, fought and held accountable our medical providers, federal health departments, big pharma, the justice department and the many people and institutions that threatened our survival. The struggles continue today, and in virtually every space, …

October 24, 2016

WATCH: This Awesome Short Film Shows What Being ‘Undetectable’ Really Means

Created by people living with HIV, and produced by Linus Ignatius and Prevention Access Campaign, the new short film U=U: Undetectable = Untransmittable seeks to educate the public about what it means to be undetectable. For more: Plus

October 24, 2016

Undetectable: Fear, Filters And Grindr

Alex Garner, Senior Health Innovation Strategist at Hornet, talks about ongoing fears and misunderstanding in the gay dating world and in the general public about HIV transmission risk, and he points out the need for education initiatives like Prevention Access Campaign’s U=U: “Part of the ongoing problem is that a large part of the gay male community …

October 7, 2016

HIV Undetectable Does Equal Uninfectious: The Swiss Statement and the Vindication of Pietro Vernazza

A fascinating account of the history and science behind Prevention Access Campaign’s Founding Task Force Member Professor Pietro Vernazza’s pioneering work and the Campaigns strategies to vindicate it: “The signers of [Prevention Access Campaign’s] statement? Leading public health officials in New York City, Australia and Canada, but also Myron Cohen from UNC, Jens Lundgren at the University of Copenhagen …

September 26, 2016

When Undetectable…

“The consensus is important to cut through the confusion and inaccuracies about the extent to which an undetectable viral load prevents transmission,” says Richman, adding that education isn’t the only goal. “To end HIV stigma and stop new transmissions,” he says, “we need to stop perpetuating fear of people with HIV, and we need to …

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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

If You Favor HIV Filters On Dating Apps, You’re Living In Ignorance, Blogger Says

Women Living with HIV Are Leading the Way

WATCH: This Awesome Short Film Shows What Being ‘Undetectable’ Really Means

Undetectable: Fear, Filters And Grindr

HIV Undetectable Does Equal Uninfectious: The Swiss Statement and the Vindication of Pietro Vernazza

When Undetectable…