Canadian AIDS Society (CAS) announces no Forum for people living with HIV...
A sign of the times: Bob Leahy talks with CAS ED Gary Lacasse on the impact of funding cuts which will also see the national agency further downsize on April 1 The announcement came as no surprise to...
View ArticleThe joyful struggle
William Matovu of Uganda’s Love to Love Organization in conversation with Rob Olver It was not much more than a year ago that I first wrote about Love to Love Organization for PositiveLite.com, having...
View ArticleInterview: He’s living and leading in Turkey with HIV
Bob Leahy in conversation with Minas from Istanbul about the face of activism in Turkey and how Minas bravely burst onto the world stage in July 2017. If you followed the International AIDS Conference...
View ArticleThe man that got it right
PositiveLite.com publisher Bob Leahy in conversation with Dr. Pietro Vernazza, famous author of the once-scorned Swiss Statement which predated U=U by ten years. Dr. Pietro Vernazza being interviewed...
View ArticleNew report from OHESI shows numbers of new HIV infections in Ontario continue...
Bob Leahy on the mixed bag of numbers which shows a province struggling to match impressive gains elsewhere. Where is this all heading? PositiveLite.com previewed the numbers before, but now the...
View ArticleTo hell with the money!!
Kenyan HIV activist Kimutai Kemboi interviews "Eve", a former Nairobi sex worker. "Over the years, my needs came before my health. Risk of getting sexually related infections never came to my mind. I...
View ArticleTalking about HIV and U=U in Russian
Bob Leahy interviews the Switzerland HIV non-profit organization director Dr. Alex Schneider, an expert on the troubling HIV epidemic in Russia, the largest in the world Bob Leahy: Hi Alex, thank you...
View ArticleSweet money, bitter source
Kenya's Kimutai Kemboi interviews "Janet", a sex worker based in River Road, Nairobi. "Mr. Kimboi or whoever you call yourself, I demand some respect. I have human dignity as you do and deserve to be...
View ArticleSOS Venezuela: ARV’s urgently needed.
Rob Olver speaks with ICASO Executive Director, Mary Ann Torres about her efforts to mobilize a Canadian response to the humanitarian crisis ongoing in Venezuela. Just a decade ago, Venezuela's AIDS...
View ArticleNew funding opportunity for Indigenous post-secondary students
The OHTN's Indigenous Learning Pathways to Prevention Award (ILPP) will fund two The OHTN's Indigenous Learning Pathways to Prevention Award (ILPP) will fund two students conducting community-based...
View ArticleInterview: Measuring Ontario’s performance on the HIV Care Cascade
The Ontario HIV Treatment Network’s epidemiology unit has just released a report on how Ontario people living with HIV are doing on engagement in care, on treatment and viral suppression respectively....
View ArticleBrenda Musenga and the KUTUSA Ladies: fighting stigma and forging community...
Robert Olver in conversation with Zambian HIV activist, Brenda Musenga. Brenda Musenga is a determined woman. I’d had a sense of that already from reading this story by Paul Shalala, about a group of...
View ArticleNew Pozcast focuses on GIPA in the workplace.
From Universities Without Walls, a series of informative discussions hosted by James Watson. The Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV (GIPA) is a set of principles that highlights engagement,...
View ArticleTrying out TAVIE, the first clinically validated virtual nurse.
Below are details of the app from an interview with Claire Kamoun, Director of Patient Engagement for TAVIE and Ezzat Saad, MD, PhD, Vice President, Medical & Scientific Affairs, 360Medlink Inc....
View ArticleArt Posi+ive: The Best of Both Worlds
Tradition meets innovation in the work of William Flett. From CATIE's Positive Side, this interview by Darien Taylor Killer Whale One of William Flett’s earliest childhood memories is of the plane he...
View ArticleViews from the front lines: Getting to undetectable
From CATIE's "Prevention in Focus" spotlight on programming and research, three service providers speak of the barriers to testing and treatment their communities face. We spoke to three service...
View Article'There's people that have survived': Windsor filmmaker explores HIV and aging
From the Windsor Star, Tamar Harris reports on "HIV and Aging", a documentary film being shot, fundraised and directed by Amanda Gellman. Portrait of Gregory Scratch, who is featured in a dicumentary...
View ArticleA Canada-led international Indigenous initiative towards global HIV, TB and...
Rob Olver in conversation with Ken Clement, CEO of the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) At AIDS2016, in Durban, South Africa, Canadian Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott made a commitment to...
View ArticleProfile: your nostalgia Is killing me
Activist Ian Bradley-Perrin on how romanticizing the past can obscure the present. Interview by Sarah Liss for CATIE's Positive Side. Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me, 2013. Vincent Chevalier with Ian...
View ArticleSkewed Stories
Media stories of people prosecuted for not disclosing their status show Black men on trial in disproportionate numbers. What impact does this have on African, Caribbean and Black communities? From...
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