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What to call someone who uses heroin?

First-ever study to ask people who use heroin what they want to be called finds 'people first' language often best, and language suggesting misuse or dependence generally worst

Published
21 July 2019
From
EurekAlert
Discrimination and the law
Southmead Hospital cancelled HIV patient's surgery over 'deep clean'

A hospital has apologised to a woman with HIV after cancelling her surgery twice when it wrongly believed it would then have to deep clean the theatre.

Published
05 July 2019
From
BBC News
Combatting stigma
Q&A: Battling HIV PrEP stigma with Rep. Brian Sims

To combat the stigma surrounding PrEP use, Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims, D-Philadelphia, the first openly gay man to be elected to the Pennsylvania legislature, recently shared a photo of himself holding an FTC/TDF pill on Instagram.

Published
24 May 2019
From
Healio
Combatting stigma
What works against self-stigma? First systematic review aims to find out

A systematic review of whether different interventions helped to overcome self-stigma in people in African and Asian countries who are living with or at risk of HIV

Published
24 May 2019
By
Gus Cairns
Undetectable viral load and treatment as prevention
Stop doubting the evidence – people living with HIV and on effective treatment cannot pass it on

People living with HIV still have to face stigma due to people who refuse to believe the scientifically proven power of modern day effective treatment

Published
09 May 2019
From
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Combatting stigma
Rep. Brian Sims on Taking HIV Prevention Drug: 'The Shaming Around PrEP Is Akin to Shaming Women on the Pill'

Pennsylvania Representative Brian Sims said he hoped the stigma surrounding a drug that can prevent HIV will one day end, after announcing he has been taking it himself. Sims, the first openly gay state legislator in Pennsylvanian history, posted photos on social media showing him holding a Truvada pill, also known as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

Published
26 April 2019
From
Newsweek
Young people
The Listening Project: I’ll Speak About it All Day Long (sound file)

Two 17-year-old girls infected with HIV as babies discuss their common experience in the BBC's Listening Project, a sound archive of our modern times.

Published
25 April 2019
From
BBC
Transgender people
The largest study involving transgender people is providing long-sought insights about their health

The research examines once taboo questions about the impacts of gender transition. The European Network for the Investigation of Gender Incongruence (ENIGI) is the largest scientific study of transgender people in the world, now with 2600 participants, and is unique because it is prospective, studying the impact of hormone and other therapies on their health over the long term.

Published
25 April 2019
From
Nature
Telling people you have HIV
Challenging My Own Bigotry

An HIV-negative gay man confronts his history with men living with the virus.

Published
25 April 2019
From
Poz
Undetectable viral load and treatment as prevention
Healthcare providers should discuss U=U with all their HIV-positive patients

Healthcare providers should inform all patients with HIV they cannot transmit HIV to a sexual partner when their viral load is undetectable, argue the authors of  a strongly

Published
18 March 2019
By
Michael Carter
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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