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Shifting landscapes, changing realities
Rob Olver on a labour of love: "Thank you PositiveLite.com. It's been a stellar ride and the lessons learned will go to good use." "All your so-hard facts, painted thinly on the void; Why were you not...
View ArticleA post-script and an exclamation point!
Jeff Potts: "...borrowing words from Dr. Seuss, “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” I thought that that my last piece for PositiveLite.com would fly off the fingers. It didn’t. I...
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Love and change
Dennis Battler: "Perhaps empathy is in recognizing at a visceral level, the truth of everyone sharing the struggle of life. We do mirror one another if we look closely enough to see it." Winds of...
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Last post
PositiveLite.com founder Brian Finch: "We need more of this non-business entrepreneurial spirit." It’s a weird feeling to know that I’m writing my last blog post. But here we are. As announced,...
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Michael Yoder says a good goodbye to PositiveLite.com. "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. `Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?’ he asked. `Begin at the beginning,’ the King said gravely,...
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PositiveLite.com to end publishing March 31
Bob Leahy on the history of a unique Canadian website by and for people living with HIV – and why it has run its course I need to share with you that PositiveLite.com will cease publishing on March...
View ArticleBy the numbers: PositiveLite.com’s ten most popular posts of all time
Bob Leahy looks at what caught readers’ eyes most in the nine years since PositiveLite.com first launched. What was our number one most read article by far? Read on! If an archaeologist at some...
View ArticleIs the end of HIV in sight? Yes! And no.
In which Jeff Potts checks in and introduces a brilliant article, "Is the End of HIV In Sight? Yes! And No" by his brother, David. Several weeks of intensely meaningful engagement, and then this… by...
View ArticleSyphilis cases on the rise among HIV-positive people in Calgary
"The Calgary study underscores the need for regular, perhaps even frequent, screening for syphilis among sexually active HIV-positive people." From CATIE, Sean R. Hosein reports. - Calgary doctors...
View ArticleSocial determinants of health linked to HIV mortality rates
People with HIV in Ontario still dying at higher rates than the general population. Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital Dr. Sean Rourke, a neuropsychologist at St. Michael's Hospital and scientist at...
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Free Public Legal Education Workshops at HALCO
Workshops are held in person at the Specialty Legal Clinic Co-op, 55 University Avenue, 15th Floor Room C2, Toronto (just south of King Street West and the fully accessible St. Andrew subway station):...
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UNAIDS calls for bold action to end TB and AIDS
UNAIDS press statement released ahead of World TB Day, 2018: "TB is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV." Credit: MSF/Luca Sola GENEVA, 23 March 2018—Ahead of World TB Day 2018,...
View ArticleSyphilis cases on the rise among HIV-positive people in Calgary
From CATIE, Sean R. Hosein reports - Calgary doctors noticed a three-fold increase in syphilis among patients with HIV - Syphilis was more common among people with HIV not taking treatment - More than...
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Easy breezy
Philip Minaker: "Designers have drawn considerable inspiration from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s to create new looks for Spring 2018." There is a new paradigm to dressing this season. It’s not just a fresh...
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Learning from Saskatchewan’s HIV emergency
"...as a nurse, and as a human, I remain disappointed at what I perceive to be the lack of an adequate and equitable HIV response in Saskatchewan." From CATIE Blog, Susanne Nicolay shares the benefit...
View ArticleGrants awarded to 13 Canadian initiatives to help advance the goal of...
Gilead Canada supports community leaders with local Hepatitis C micro-elimination efforts. Mississauga, ON, March 14, 2018 – In support of Canada’s commitment to the World Health Organization’s (WHO)...
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New toolkit supports advocates in using media to fight for HIV justice
From HIV Justice Worldwide: "...an important step towards realizing a world where people living with HIV are not singled out by the criminal justice system simply for having a virus.“ When it comes to...
View ArticleUnsure about that online date? A new service can check in and make sure...
The service is a response to the ongoing Bruce McArthur investigation, creators say Haran Vijayanathan says the program will be useful 'whether it’s a hookup or a date or somebody who you’re meeting...
View Article8 Questions about PrEP for guys
From CATIE, authoritative answers to eight of the most frequently asked questions about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). A word on language: People use different words to talk about their bodies and...
View ArticleNew South Wales puts 9000 people on PrEP, achieves a one-third decline in new...
Successful appeal to state government got ‘cap’ lifted on PrEP demo trial. From AIDSmap, Gus Cairns reports. The state of New South Wales in Australia has seen a fall of one-third in diagnoses of...
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