[From HIV Plus, July 8 2019] “Recent Australian research revealed good news around HIV prevention. Gay and bisexual men are driving a sharp decline in new HIV transmissions in Australia — a 30 percent drop in just five years — according to the Kirby Institute’s 2018 HIV Surveillance Report.” For more, click here.
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[From CBC, July 5 2019] “For years after Greg Mann moved from Hamilton to Kitchener, he still had to make a time-consuming, twice-monthly commute between the two cities. Mann, who is HIV positive, spent more than four years with one standing appointment a month with his family doctor in Hamilton, and another with an HIV clinic at McMaster University.
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[From Forbes, July 4 2019] “Here are several things that you should always know the status of: whether you are married, whether your toilet is overflowing, whether your hair is on fire, and whether you have HIV. Not knowing these can affect not only you but others around you.” For more, click here.
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[From aidsmap, July 3, 2019] “Immediate initiation of antiretroviral treatment produced the biggest boost in CD4 cell count for people infected with HIV less than six months previously, an analysis of the START study of prompt HIV treatment has found. Writing in the July issue of AIDS, the study investigators say that the benefit of early
[From BBC News, July 3, 2019] “Some parents in Kenya take the secret of their HIV status to their graves, leaving their children ignorant and unwell. Brian Omondi, who was born with HIV, started taking anti-retroviral (ARV) pills when he was 10.” For more, click here.
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