Tag: VIH

 

Le Réseau : 30 années à l’avant-garde de la recherche sur le VIH au Canada

Thirty years ago, a group of scientists gathered around a kitchen table on Davie Street, in the heart of Vancouver’s West End, to discuss ways to provide better care for and prolong the lives of people living with HIV who, at the time, were dying by the hundreds and extremely stigmatized. In Canada, there was not yet a network for physicians to come together and conduct HIV clinical trials. And so, the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN) was born, providing a platform for Canadian researchers to generate good scientific evidence.

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Working to end the criminalization of HIV in Canada

On June 14, I travelled to Toronto to meet with leading activists, researchers and experts working to end the criminalization of HIV in Canada for the 8th Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights. Organized by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, the annual forum for the past few years has focused solely on advocacy to end Canada’s position as a global leader in the criminalization of people living with HIV for alleged non-disclosure, exposure and transmission.

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Comment la PrEP et la charge virale indétectable redéfinissent-elles les relations sociales des hommes gais et bisexuels?

Indétectable = Intransmissible, PrEP, Traitement comme prévention… Si ces approches font aujourd’hui consensus parmi les experts communautaires et scientifiques du VIH, leur appropriation par un plus large public reste encore incertaine. Dans la communauté gaie, ce nouveau contexte de la prévention suscite encore des résistances ou des questionnements : il suffit d’engager la conversation sur le sujet, en ligne ou dans un bar, pour s’en apercevoir!

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It’s time for Toronto to step up: Let’s become a UNAIDS Fast-Track City

The past few years have been a rollercoaster for those of us most impacted by HIV. The use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) by people who are HIV-negative has gone from being discredited and shamed to become one of the keystones of a renewed and revitalized push to “end the HIV epidemic”. The other life-changing piece of research is the landmark PARTNER study that showed us, once and for all, that the sexual transmission of HIV does not occur in people whose viral loads are undetectable. The joyous global uptake of the U=U message has been nothing short of inspirational.

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Trois raisons pour lesquelles CATIE appuie I=I en matière de transmission sexuelle du VIH

CATIE a récemment appuyé  la Déclaration de consensus de la campagne pour l’accès à la prévention, célébrant ainsi le fait que « indétectable égale intransmissible ». Mise de l’avant par un groupe de personnes dévouées vivant avec le VIH, cette déclaration révolutionnaire a poussé CATIE à réfléchir à ses propres messages sur la prévention de la transmission sexuelle du VIH. Les données de recherche sur le traitement comme outil de prévention s’accumulent lentement depuis de nombreuses années. En tant qu’organisme voué à la diffusion d’informations fondées sur des données probantes, CATIE reconnaît que les preuves se rapportant à la charge virale indétectable...

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There are thousands of people in Canada who are in a serodiscordant relationship, yet we know very little about their experiences and needs

Marcus and David have been dating for three years. Marcus is HIV-positive and David is HIV-negative. David was worried when he told his parents that his new partner was HIV-positive, but after they saw how happy Marcus makes him, they have welcomed Marcus into their lives. At the same time, they still worry that their son may become infected. Faith is living with HIV, and her partner, Scott, is HIV-negative. Faith often finds herself having to educate Scott on what she has to do to manage her condition and Scott has had difficulty understanding because information changes quickly. They fight...

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