2018

Insights from a participatory arts-based study

Provides information about WelTel Program, a mHealth interventio that has shown to improve cART adherence to and promote supresion of HIV plasma viral load in people livnig with HIV

Lesotho’s Herd Boy program aims to provide HIV/AIDS and gender equity education, as well as psychosocial support to herd boys in rural areas to reduce transmission of HIV.

In numerous countries, particularly the Commonwealth Caribbean, the criminalization of consensual same-sex relationships and gender non-conforming people — accompanied by wider societal stigma and discrimination, often intensified by fundamentalist religious groups — has had a damaging effect on health and human rights.

In 2011, Malawi implemented a Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) program. The aim of this program is to provide all HIV infected pregnant and breastfeeding women immediate and life long ART to allow babies to be born HIV free, known as Option B+.

The AYAZAZI study is an attempt to get a more holistic understanding of HIV risk among youth. It looks at everything from the social, behavioral, emotional, sexual and even genetic factors that may make it more or less likely that a person contracts HIV.

A refugee who learns he is HIV positive when he arrives in Canada, a native person with a dual identity, a few ordinary Canadians who were told they would die soon, a victim of rape, a young woman born with HIV, a housewife, a youth educator.

HIV/AIDS activist, Tim McCaskell explains to CBC news that there is the need to raise awareness as many people fail to recognize those living with HIV are not being treated properly.