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How stigma stops you getting a date
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. From FS, words by Nicholas Baker This article by Nicholas Baker previously appeared at FS, here. I’d been chatting to a guy from a...
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Need more care for ASO staffers with mental health issues
Bob Leahy talks to Toronto’s Ed Argo about the mental health issues that plagued him while working in AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs) and why he feels more needs to be done for those in similar...
View ArticleAccuracy Watchdog Eyes Media for Mistakes in HIV Transmission Risk
On getting U=U and PrEP facts right .POZ reports on this joint initiative of Human Rights Campaign and Prevention Access Campaign. This article previously appeared at POZ, here. A new initiative...
View ArticleMany older people living with HIV in the UK worried about poverty, loneliness...
From AIDSmap, Roger Pebody examines what Terrence Higgins Trust is calling a "social care time bomb." People over the age of 50 now represent one third of all people living with HIV, but the social...
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Ed Wolf's journal of the Trump years, part two: organize, sympathize,...
Respected activist Ed Wolf offers ways to channel the wisdom gained from past campaigns. Day 12. Praise every bridge. When I worked on the AIDS ward at San Francisco General in the mid-80s I was asked...
View Article2017 and I’m not Nostradamus.
On "self-imposed social inactivity".As 2017 opens, Colin Johnson knows where he is and what he'd like to see, even though the future looks cloudy. I haven’t written for a while. Sorry Bob, it's not...
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CTAC stages first-class conference on treatment advocacy
CTAC may be struggling to retain its government funding but it proved last week in Toronto that it’s still a highly relevant platform for treatment advocacy work in Canada. CTAC executive director...
View ArticleLiving quietly incognito
Don Short on the opposite of disclosure - being comfortably alone: "Solutions surface and I tune in for strategy and resolve. Collectively, these noise-free moments are worth their weight in gold."...
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Good news from CATIE: what people need to know about Undetectable viral load...
CATIE says "people who are engaged in regular healthcare, are on treatment and have an ongoing undetectable viral load do not pass HIV to their sexual partners". This article previously appeared on...
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Stopped at the border
Denise Wozniak:compares her own arrival to that of immigrants detained by a Trump order. "No matter what, human rights are not negotiable..." My life in Canada as a new immigrant began on February 7,...
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A joint article by Jeff Potts & Paul Kenney . .
“The darkness we perceive is actually light” say Ottawa-based partners and soul-mates Jeff and Paul in their first collaborative piece We both live with HIV, but HIV only lives with one of us; we both...
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Strategies for forgetting about HIV
“What do I do to forget HIV?” asks New Yorker Felix Garmendia. And what do YOU do? What do I do to forget HIV? Interesting question. I’m going to go out on a limb and say, “I HAVE HIV but HIV is NOT...
View ArticleI am HIV-positive. This is what it's like to date.
Must-read from Redbook: Dating after a breakup is hard enough — now add being HIV positive to that. To read the complete article by Karen Fratti visit Redbook, here. I was living in New York City with...
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When an AIDS group falters . .
Bob Leahy on the community uproar that followed the release of the GNP+ position paper demonizing the community led U=U campaign - and why the divisiveness it started must stop On being kind - and...
View ArticleWhat are the key steps to effective delivery of PrEP care?
From AIDSmap.com, Roger Pebody on one of several recent articles attempting to define a continuum of care for PrEP or other HIV prevention interventions. Providing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to...
View ArticleStudy explores how to tell children they have HIV
For UCSF Global Health Sciences, Anne Wolf reports on an intervention to help Ugandan parents find ways to tell their children that the child has HIV For the past two years, Rachel King, PhD, MPH, an...
View ArticlePrEP in Canada: What do we know about awareness, acceptability and use?
For CATIE, Camille Arkell reports on the current state of PrEP in Canada. Une version française est disponible ici. Introduction A growing body of evidence tells us that oral pre-exposure prophylaxis...
View ArticleTwo-thirds of HIV clinics in the UK don't think there's a current need for...
Only a minority of centres have specialist clinics for management of co-morbidities. For AIDSmap, Michael Carter reports. (Here is what is happening in the USA) Two-thirds of HIV clinics in the UK do...
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Toronto's Dennis Battler says he's a "Seq Worker". But what does he mean?
Dennis Battler on how staying sane takes work Asked recently how I spend my time, a clear simple answer was hardly suitable. Yet to offer an accurate statement would take the entire evening. Spending...
View ArticleCould cannabis treat HIV?
Jeannie Wraight and Mariel Selbovitz: More and more studies are surfacing that show just how important cannabis may be for the treatment of HIV. To read the entire article by Jeannie Wraight and...
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