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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 …

September 26, 2016

#Undetectable – A Peak at Some of the Buzz

On social media, individuals and organizations spread the good news that undetectable equals untransmittable. Check out the story in POZ.com

September 18, 2016

Noël Gordon of Human Rights Campaign at the USCA 2016 Closing Plenary

Noël Gordon speaks at the closing plenary at the USCA 2016 about how we are failing people with HIV by not clearly communicating the message that transmission STOPS at treatment. “We know that treatment as prevention has the power to avert many more transmissions than PrEP or condoms alone yet I can’t think of a …

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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…

#Undetectable – A Peak at Some of the Buzz

Noël Gordon of Human Rights Campaign at the USCA 2016 Closing Plenary