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A step toward ending unjust HIV criminalization, with more to be done in 2018

 22 janvier 2018 •  Par Nicholas Caivano

For people living with HIV and their allies, 2017 was a ground-breaking year. It culminated with both the federal and Ontario governments publicly recognizing the need to limit the over-criminalization of HIV in Canada. On World AIDS Day 2017, both acknowledged that criminal prosecution for alleged HIV non-disclosure is not warranted when a person living with HIV has a “suppressed viral load” (i.e., less than 200 copies of HIV/ml of blood) because such an individual poses no “realistic possibility” of transmitting the virus—the Supreme Court’s legal test for whether a duty to disclose exists.

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HIV and mental health: The elephant in the room

 10 octobre 2017 •  Par Tammy C. Yates

In his famous poem “The Blind Men and the Elephant”, John Godfrey Saxe retells an Indian parable about three blind men who went to see an elephant. Of course, being blind, they could only ‘see’ the elephant by touching it. When asked to describe the elephant, one grabbed it by its trunk and said, “An elephant is like a snake!” The second man took his turn to touch it, pulled it by the leg, and confidently determined, “No, an elephant is like a tree trunk!” The third and final person to touch the elephant grabbed it by its tusks and...

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Connected patients, connected providers: Delivering comprehensive, coordinated, team-based care to people living with HIV in Canada

 28 septembre 2017 •  Par Dr. Claire Kendall and Katie Ablett

Thanks to effective anti-HIV treatment, HIV has evolved into a chronic illness. However, people living with HIV often today also live with other physical and mental health conditions, which can be difficult to cope with, especially for those also coping with difficult socio-economic circumstances. To provide quality care to people living with HIV and other long-term medical and social conditions, health-care providers not only need to ensure  that people living with HIV are engaged in quality health care, but we also need to enhance the capacity of Canadian HIV clinics to integrate and coordinate additional resources. By integrating and coordinating...

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U=U and the overly-broad criminalization of HIV nondisclosure

 6 juin 2017 •  Par Nicholas Caivano and Sandra Ka Hon Chu

People living with HIV in Canada have been charged with some of the most serious offences in the Criminal Code, even in cases of consensual sex where there was negligible or no risk of HIV transmission, no actual transmission and no intent to transmit. The Undetectable=Untransmittable (“U=U”) campaign is based on scientific research, including the ground-breaking PARTNER study, establishing that when a person living with HIV on treatment maintains an undetectable viral load for at least six months, the risk of transmitting the virus through sex is effectively non-existent. As advocates for persons living with HIV await action from federal,...

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Indétectable = Intransmissible – CATIE y adhère

 13 janvier 2017 •  Par Laurie Edmiston

Nous tous, ici, chez CATIE, et par le fait même les gens de partout au monde, célèbrent l’avancée la plus importante dans le monde du VIH depuis l’avènement du traitement combiné efficace il y a 20 ans : les personnes vivant avec le VIH et ayant une charge virale indétectable durable peuvent déclarer avec confiance à leurs partenaires sexuels qu’elles ne sont pas contagieuses! Le caractère « fabuleux » de cette annonce ne peut être sous-estimé. Avec ou sans condom, si vous êtes indétectable, vous ne transmettrez pas le VIH! Cette avancée change toute la donne et les personnes vivant avec le VIH...

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